Fascinating and entertaining piece by Gary Younge today on his membership of a food co-operative in Brooklyn. It’s all the better for his self-deprecating tone:
So when, shortly after we had moved to Brooklyn, my partner suggested we join the Park Slope food cooperative, I was reluctant. Since the co-op demands that every adult in a [...]
So I’m waiting by the printer, when Paul sees his page rolling out. “Ah,” he says, “that’ll be my car for the weekend.”
He told me about this ages ago, but I forgot the URL. It’s Streetcar.co.uk. A whole lot of PIN-locked cars located at strategic points in London and elsewhere. You book a timeslot, get [...]
You wait around for weeks and weeks, and then two big launches come along at once.
Emily trailed Comment is Free on Saturday — today’s paper describes it as “the first rolling comment blog hosted by a UK newspaper”. It’s driven by the blogging phenomenon — increased interaction demanded by informed and opinionated people — and [...]
Last night I went to see a talk by David Lloyd, the artist behind the V for Vendetta comic (now a major motion picture). An exhibition of his work has just started at the Newsroom in Farringdon Road.
He talked about how he came to draw the story and something of the art itself. [...]
A magazine full of non-celebrity news and gossip… and it’s just won the Best Lifestyle Fanzine of 2005 from Emap. According to the website:
Issue Two continues the white knuckle ride of the mundane with Eileen’s mince pies: “We must be the only home in England, where you can call at any time of the year [...]
Anna bought me the new Chumbawamba album, “A Singsong and a Scrap”, and it’s lovely. The punk anarchists have returned to English folk music, which they last spent time on with “English Rebel Songs 1381-1984″. This time, though, they’re not a capella, and they’re mostly singing their own songs. Their voices are beautiful, their harmonies [...]
John Whitehead asks Jack today:
I am about to retire and would like to learn a programming language both for fun and practical purposes. The question is, which one?
Learning your first programming language — which is in effect learning to program — is such a fascinating but painful enterprise. I struggle to recall all the difficulties [...]
The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has today announced that investing in nuclear power “is not the answer to tackling climate change or security of supply” in Britain. It’s looked at eight reports and balanced the risks of disposing of nuclear waste against the gains to be made from a CO2-free resource. The government is aiming [...]
We went off geocaching on Sunday in Wanstead Park. There are several caches around there. Disconcertingly, as we entered the park we met a guy with his son and two dogs, also with a GPS unit. So together we went in search of a cache by the ornamental waters. After about 20 minutes of scrabbling [...]
Today I am in some pain having sat very badly for too long at my PC yesterday. On Linux I used the wonderful Gnome Typing Break feature which locked the screen for three minutes after 30 minutes of keyboard and mouse activity, forcing you to get up and walk around for a couple of minutes. [...]
