2013/11/14

The Armistice Centenary, War, and who we are.

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I recently read that David Cameron said that he wanted to see a 100th Armistice commemoration "that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrati...
2013/10/16

Bitcoin as a law enforcement/natsec honeypot: what is the evidence?

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Paranoia appears to be the order of the day, given what we know about the NSA and GCHQ thanks to Edward Snowden. Absent from the stories so...
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2013/02/15

Spring 3.1+ Environment properties not being resolved when using dollar-notation placeholders in bean properties? Read this :-)

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So after spelunking through the Spring source, I found out that it was my fault, of course. Why: I needed a in my spring XML, even with n...
2012/12/02

Patterns of Refactored Agency: blogger compels me to post this as the keyboard beckons my fingertips...

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Patterns of Refactored Agency : Not that I agree with all of it, but it's a very interesting to apply the refactorings to various aspect...
2012/11/13

Napsterisation - how to educate the world? (for certian values of 'educate')

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Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay Shirky : "It’s been interesting watching [napsterisation] unfold in music, books, newspapers, T...
2012/11/09

New Left Review - Rob Lucas: The Critical Net Critic

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New Left Review - Rob Lucas: The Critical Net Critic : In this argument, what Carr termed ‘intellectual technologies’ in particular—map, cl...
2012/07/18

Three reviews of Pixar's Brave

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These links all contain spoilers. Ebert , The Guardian , and others will say this is Pixar being Disneyfied. But this post is not about t...
2012/07/02

Exit, Voice and Loyalty by Albert O. Hirschman

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With a full title of "Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organisations and States", this is a fairly old (197...
2012/05/13

Seemingly within the realm of conspiracy theory, but:

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When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed | News | The Week UK : "Typical was the headline on a short article that ran in...
2012/05/05

The 911 Wars by Jason Burke, and The Don Camillo Omnibus by Giovanni Guareschi

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I read about The 9/11 Wars by Jason Burke on Tim Bray's blog and thought "that sounds interesting", and so it is. I'm abo...

What conditions give rise to great artistic achievements? Wealth, urban centers, belief in God. Wait: What?

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20120513:See update below Future tense, IX: Out of the wilderness by Charles Murray - The New Criterion : "Upon reading Daniel Boor...
2012/03/08

Phillip K. Dick: where all those wonderful books came from

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LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | The Exegete: "There are, in fact, numerous ways to find a trail through this wilderness of crazed specul...
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2012/02/21

Towards a politicisation of Hello Kitty: a first look what's involved :-)

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I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream – The New Inquiry: "Why doesn’t Hello Kitty have a mouth? Is its absence more than an expedient, min...
2012/02/16

How we ignore the long-term effects of violence on children, adults and our communities

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“I See Everything Through This Tragedy” | The Interrupters | FRONTLINE | PBS "At 10:45 on the night of March 13, 2009, Rodney Orange wa...
2012/02/15

How to Read a Poem, by Terry Eagleton

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I thought this book would be good to read since I knew very little about poetry; in many ways I still do, but I think I've been made mor...