31 December 2008 – 8:14 PM
I’m setting myself a few New Year’s Resolutions for 2009.
They’ll also be New Years’ Resolutions. Note the apostrophe placement because some of these things are just too good for only one year.
One of them relates to email.
Email is a blessing and a curse for me. Recently – OK, for the last few years actually – [...]
26 December 2008 – 12:00 AM
The Joy Collective is a rather splendid blog about music.
It tends to focus on Cardiff, Newport and Bristol, which makes a lot of sense because all three are close enough to share their gig-going crowds. Plus, truly, they are among the UK’s best cities for gigs.
Recently Will at The Joy Collective sent me some questions [...]
25 December 2008 – 12:00 AM
Merry Christmas.
This clip is from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s very highly recommended The Gospel According to St. Matthew.
The soundtrack is a version of the old negro spiritual Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child as sung by Odetta, who passed away this year.
20 December 2008 – 7:16 PM
After the Bush/Shoe incident, anyone who’d spent even a few moments in eccentric corners of web knew there would be a creative response online. And it came. Wired has a summary of the shoe-inspired games and animations.
So Sock And Awe wasn’t the only Flash game based on the Bush/Shoe event. But it was the best.
Now [...]
15 December 2008 – 3:56 AM
One video which I really enjoyed this year was this 20-minute talk about endangered languages.
I wasn’t particularly following this subject in any great depth before. Let’s just say raw curiosity can take one to some unexpected places.
You can open it in a new window here.
Dr. David Harrison says:
There are 7,000 languages spoken in the world [...]
