In praise of the book…and the pencil
I think I could become a fan of Google’s new Think Quarterly. My favourite bit so far is from Guy Laurence, CEO of Vodafone UK, telling a cautionary joke about…
Make money from music? Go on tour.
Interesting article from ArsTechnica Did file-sharing cause recording industry collapse? Economists say no. Researchers from LSE have looked at some of the claims about the negative effects of file sharing…
Cyclists: beware multitaskers
The driver who caused the death of one cyclist and injured another while she was distracted for – listen carefully – two seconds while throwing a spider out of a…
Ballet troubles & music
Music in Motion is an article on new scores for NYCB from The New Yorker by Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise. (Via theballetbag via Twitter) I enjoyed…
Win it for the Daily Mail, Slovenia
Feeling just a bit odd today, as had it not been for commitments in London, I would be at the England-Slovenia match, having won a five-day trip to SA and…
Ha! I was right: singletasking IS the new multi-tasking
You may remember that I posted about the natty little program called Freedom that turns off your internet access for a time designated by you, so you can get on…