You think #MH370 is Ballardian? Kicking it up a notch: The tests showed that brands outperformed people where a person’s relationship to a product was tied to a story–such as the subject who loved his watch, which was handed down from his father, more than his girlfriend, or the man whose life-long love of the…
Read More LinksI would like to embed this, but anyway, watch it and feel the thrilling and controversial American razzamatazz, like. Yes, still bitter. This looks interesting, but apparently it’s a blog you have to read through facebook, which makes what kind of sense? And: Ian Roberts, Kangaroo legend, also the game’s first professional to come out…
Read More Links: Rugby LeagueI just noticed from my Firefox crash log (about:crashes) that it crashed seven times on the 16th of October, 2013, of which four occurred between 1320 and 1420. I may have to revise my opinion of my own ability to manage anger, as nobody seems to have been hurt. I think it may be this…
Read More Crashy, the crash app, is crashing!Somewhere between Thursday and Saturday, Bob Crow appeared on one of the TV news channels in an interview in which he was pictured in a Bradley Wiggins x Fred Perry shirt, nearly Yves Klein blue, and his expensive tan, in front of a massive parliamentary-looking bookcase. I am trying to find a screengrab in order…
Read More Human flesh video indexing engineThere’s a lot of interesting stuff in this Randeep Ramesh piece in the Grauniad. However, the coalition is concerned that these levels of building will not meet the demand for properties, particularly in south-east England where outright normal home ownership is not an option for many. So [Danny] Alexander and his Tory cabinet colleague Eric…
Read More Two simple plans – mine and anotherSome technology links. This is a fabulously weird and awful idea, and it’s probably for the best someone did it as art before someone made a startup. In January, 2013, she moved to Portland, Oregon, a city where she barely knew anyone, and went on sixteen first dates. For each date, she streamed audio and…
Read More Links, sciencyWe’re paying for the Afghan police, but the Afghan government doesn’t necessarily actually pay over the money. Jesus wept. Conor Friedersdorf stands in for Megan McArdle, and rather than the barrage of mockery you might hope for, gets a barrage of poisonous misogyny instead. His past experience of comments trolls is much like mine, including…
Read More Links uncategorisedIrna Qureshi’s Belter of a Blog discusses the surprising similarity of Pakistani and Yorkshire attitudes to land, and the even weirder way people chose to divide up their living space in exactly the same fashion on each side of the ethnic divide, at least until they moved out to somewhere that wasn’t built with a…
Read More Links, with an immigration themeThe “Create Streets” lot are being mithered by the very serious people again. Dave Hill of the Guardian and Faisal Islam from the Ha! Ha! Poors Channel have been at it since the turn of the year. London housing crisis: Create Streets? Fine. But who decides? http://t.co/Pz6x2ep2yG — DaveHill (@DaveHill) January 10, 2014 interesting: “@createstreets:…
Read More who you gonna call? the unacceptable behaviour teamIt seems incongruous to cite Langewiesche and Michael White in the same post, so I broke this out separately and it grew. White worries that public anger at MPs’ pay and expenses and even actual thieving will rob us of inspiring examples of public service, such as Denis MacShane. What gets me here is that…
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