Remember this post? I never got around to making any more maps, but Duncan Stott’s map of English identity is suddenly relevant. Interesting map of Census data showing how many people identify as 'English': pic.twitter.com/lX3mKE32Ph — Duncan Stott (@DuncanStott) September 24, 2014 I had been planning to mock Daniel Davies for being an expert on…
Read More In which data visualisation solves a practical problemThis piece about Catalan #indyref crystallises everything I hate about what I call Euro-nationalism. It’s wonderful that they’re all so engaged: Kilted men wearing saltire capes and foam fingers on both hands danced in the aisles as “The Red Hot Chilli Pipers” played a bagpipe version of Don’t Stop Believing. Sorry. That was the other…
Read More Progressive as in “progressively reducing benefits for the poorest”A technology thing. I am getting increasingly annoyed with the process of getting notes I take on a Kindle back out of the device and into posts on this blog. The problems are numerous, but: Notes aren’t returned with any context Notes aren’t available in a sensible format The web page they show up on…
Read More #lazyweb: my notes are trapped in a Kindle.So, I’ve been remiss with the book blogging. Here goes. Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley is a group biography of the phone phreaks, possibly the original geek culture, exploiting the in-band signalling that phone companies relied on up to the late 70s for fun and if not profit, at least free calls. I liked…
Read More Books: Exploding the PhoneThere’s a lot that could be said about this weekend’s political entertainment, but the bit that stays with me is that I fear we’re losing the best thing about Ed Miliband, which was calm, sitzfleisch, and the ability to wait out stupid media bullshit. This really is something you want in a leader, and we…
Read More A bad sign