January 2012
9 posts
“In December, a group of professors from America’s top philosophy...”
– What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic
“The point here isn’t that piracy by American consumers is somehow completely...”
– Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy | Cato @ Liberty - stellar piece on piracy, content economics and audience behaviour.
December 2011
11 posts
“Hitchens went into my kitchen, took a cutting board off the counter, and threw...”
– I knew Christopher Hitchens better than you - Salon.com
“It is the story of the deconstruction of the American dream, piece by piece,...”
– Bruce Springsteen on ‘Someplace Like America’ - The Washington Post
Historically, the labour share tends to rise during recessions as companies hold on to workers and sacrifice profits, then falls back in a recovery. But during the 2008 recession the labour share did the opposite: it fell, and when the recovery began it kept falling.
“What is absolutely remarkable is that profits in the corporate sector are 25-30 per cent greater than they were before the recession, even though there is substantial unused capacity and high unemployment,” said Lawrence Mishel, president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
“I have just had Sartre’s book on antisemitism, which you published, to...”
– Letters of Note: A bag of wind
“8. The Unwitting Outlier. “Has anyone really cared about George Clooney...”
– The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In The Comments Sections Of Year-End Lists : Monkey See : NPR
Robert Reich: The Most Important Economic Speech... →
robertreich:
The President’s speech today in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in terms of connecting the dots, laying out the reasons behind our economic and political crises, and asserting a…
Watchadvocatenews:
WATCH: The Speech You’ve Been Waiting For
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s address before the United Nations in Geneva will be remembered by history, with the Secretary of State unabashedly arguing to the world that LGBT rights are human rights.
Read the Complete Transcript of the Speech, as Provided By the State Department:
SECRETARY CLINTON: Good evening, and let me express my deep...
November 2011
14 posts
“If I could answer this sort of question, I’d be a professor rather than a...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 30, Philip Larkin
“The best writing conditions I ever had were in Belfast, when I was working at...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 30, Philip Larkin
“Unfortunately, we at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend...”
– steal this record - Yellow Press - Elvis Costello
“So I parted with my writing far earlier than I would usually, to ask my agent...”
– Hilary Mantel writes second sequel to Wolf Hall | Books | guardian.co.uk
“What thrillers did for fear musicals did for happiness.”
– Odes to joy | Prospect Magazine
“There’s no way to take a time-out from our social life and describe it to...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) - a really, really awesome post on the mess created when we try and map human relationships into software.
“Asking questions is beautiful. Asking questions is enough.”
– Protesters? They’re beautiful | The Times
“Kitty is nine months old. She’ll be heading off in the blink of an eye to some...”
– I fear she’ll blow the kitty on fun and Ferraris | The Times
“The strange thing is, I can’t seem to find anyone who bought X & Y, or...”
– Andy Gill: ‘Why I hate Coldplay’ - Features - Music - The Independent
“I took another sentence at random in the chapter, put quote marks around it, and...”
– The Debrief: Assassin of Secrets > an extraordinary tale of plagiarism. I’m a sucker for this stuff, if only because I cannot understand why these people do it, and how they think they will get away with it. It’s a sort of madness.
“Carrying you away is what the movies have always tried to do, and putting a...”
– Hollywood: A Love Story - Magazine - The Atlantic - a beautiful piece, this, by Clive James, reviewing the latest Biographical Dictionary of Film. It’s like being in a conversation between James and Thomson, admiring their erudition and knowledge, feeling frustrated at their prejudices but...
October 2011
17 posts
“This basic fact has been proved time and again, not just in qualitative...”
– BBC News - Viewpoint: Is the alcohol message all wrong?
“Everything that was false and petty and unqualified in her was visible within...”
– Palin: Already Almost Forgotten | FrumForum
“Don’t abandon the Afghan people. Mean it when you say it. Make your government...”
– Harry’s Place » Among Thousands, One Good Man
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“At the dawn of time before it all began
Before stars and comets
Before the B...”
– God Is A Manc « Godisamanc’s Blog
“The reaction to the Labour leader’s conference speech is one of the strangest...”
– Obama and Miliband | The Spectator
“Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author of the...”
– Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute
