August 2011
1 post
“But just look at those gardens, those buildings, those libraries, those...”
– Christopher Ricks, “Common cause : in defence of the New College of the Humanities”, The Times Literary Supplement, 5 August 2011, p. 14
July 2011
4 posts
“The bus is filled with a variety of people. None of them try to undermine my...”
– “Western culture still very much there, say experts”, The Daily Mash, 26 July 2011
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/western-culture-still-very-much-there%2c-say-experts-201107264118/
“But the separate identity people are actually part of an older tradition (and...”
– Emlyn O’Regan, “Google+, the pseudonym banstick, and the netizen cultural schism”, Point7, 24 July 2011
http://point7.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/google-the-pseudonym-banstick-and-the-netizen-cultural-schism/
“The National Academy of Sciences in the United States did a very extensive study...”
– Emine Saner, “Have we had our fill of water?”, The Guardian, 23 July 2011, p. 42-43
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/22/had-our-fill-of-water
“One simple explanation for this development: We now have access to a ridiculous...”
– Nitsuh Abebe, “We Must Be Superstars”, New York, 10 July 2011
http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/narcissism-2011-7/
June 2011
2 posts
“Passing the time one day, Kreipe began to recite some lines from Horace’s ode Ad...”
– James Campbell, “Obituary: Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor”, The Guardian, 10 June 2011 (online), 11 June 2011 (print), p. 39
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jun/10/patrick-leigh-fermor-obituary
“Observers with a sense of history have noted that the tabloids’...”
– Stephen Sedley, “The Goodwin and Giggs Show”, London Review of Books, v. 33, no. 12 (16 June 2011), p. 3
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n12/stephen-sedley/the-goodwin-and-giggs-show
April 2011
1 post
“In declaring her his princess, he brings hope of real change to millions of...”
– Stewart Lee, “Stewart Lee’s insider’s take on William and Kate”, The Guardian, 27 April 2011 (online), 28 April 2011 (print)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/apr/27/royal-wedding-secret-kate-wills
March 2011
7 posts
“We emphasise, when debating climate change, the importance of the scientific...”
– George Monbiot’s blog, “The double standards of green anti-nuclear opponents”, The Guardian, 31 March 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/mar/31/double-standards-nuclear
“The census allows you to determine for yourself whether you’re disabled or...”
– Disability Bitch, “Census and Sensibility”, 24 March 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/opinion/b1tch/db_census_and_sensibility.shtml
“We prejudge endlessly. Because we have not experienced the emotions that new...”
– James Bridle, “Stop Lying About What You Do”, Booktwo.org, 23 March 2011
http://booktwo.org/notebook/stop-lying/
“During the recent BBC interview, Clegg appeared defensive, stating, “they...”
– Stephen Dunne, “Dons defy Clegg”, Cherwell, 22 March 2011
http://www.cherwell.org/content/11625
“I spent all evening perusing this ledger of legislation. It’s hard, dry...”
– Polly Toynbee, “So-called localism will undo years of human endeavour”, The Guardian, 19 March 2011, p. 47
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/19/localism-undo-human-endeavour-eric-pickles
“Bottom line: When the amount of information available to be filtered is...”
– Nicholas Carr, “Situational overload and ambient overload”, Rough Type, 7 March 2011
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2011/03/situational_ove.php
“We can combine International Bleating Day with White History Month, to create a...”
– Steven Baxter (Anton Vowl), “International bleating day”, Enemies of Reason, 8 March 2011
http://enemiesofreason.co.uk/2011/03/08/international-bleating-day/
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February 2011
4 posts
“I know that every day should be about romance, that the calendar shouldn’t...”
– Torie Bosch, “Leave Cupid Alone, You Snobs”, Slate, 11 February 2011
http://www.slate.com/id/2284806/
“He is also yet another humanities graduate from Oxford in his forties. That...”
– John Lanchester, “Short Cuts”, London Review of Books, 17 February 2011, p. 24
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n04/john-lanchester/short-cuts
“On the one hand, we are told that bankers deserve their bonuses because they...”
– Simon Barron, “The poverty of nations”, Undaimonia, 10 February 2011
http://undaimonia.blogspot.com/2011/02/poverty-of-nations.html
“A series of books explaining why books no longer matter is a paradox that...”
– Adam Gopnik, “The Information: How the Internet Gets Inside Us”, The New Yorker, 14 February 2011, p. 124
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik
January 2011
2 posts
“Music, however, has it easy compared to writing. Musicians have always relied on...”
– Tim Spalding, “The downward spiral of ownership and value”, Thing-ology Blog, 24 January 2011
http://www.librarything.com/blogs/thingology/2011/01/ebooks-the-downward-spiral-of-ownership-and-value/
“Think about Boots, a company that reduced its tax bill by more than 80 per cent...”
– Johann Hari, “If you were a rich man”, GQ, January 2011
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2011-01/11/gq-comment-johann-hari-conservative-cuts-tax-loopholes-
December 2010
3 posts
“All I can say, looking back, is that when history takes a look at the lives of...”
– Jason Scott, “Yahoo!locaust”, ASCII, 23 December 2010
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2848
“Imagine, for a moment, that a British government grew so anxious about headlines...”
– ‘Bagehot’, “Tabloids: why is Sweden better at coping with snow than Britain?”, The Economist, 2 December 2010
http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2010/12/britain_under_snow
“I recently had an exchange with my friend Wes about whether Google Maps, by...”
– Matt Thompson, “I have mixed feelings about Facebook”, Snarkmarket, 3 December 2010
http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6437
November 2010
3 posts
“Of course, I know you are aware that cheating occurs. But you have no idea how...”
– ‘Ed Dante’, “The shadow scholar : the man who writes your students’ papers tells his story”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 November 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/
“To the vulgar utilitarian demand, “Yes, all very nice, I’m sure, but...”
– Simon Schama, “My vision for history in schools”, The Guardian, 9 November 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/nov/09/future-history-schools
“I’ve been doing some research related to “information...”
– Wayne Bivens-Tatum, ‘The “Crisis” in the Humanities’, Academic Librarian, 5 November 2010
http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2010/11/the_crisis_in_the_humanities.html
October 2010
2 posts
“The lesson of these experiments is not that people are shortsighted or shallow...”
– James Surowiecki, “Later: what does procrastination tell us about ourselves?”, The New Yorker, 11 October 2010
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/10/11/101011crbo_books_surowiecki
“You know who peddles false hope to naive would-be artists? People who go around...”
– Cory Doctorow, “The real cost of free”, The Guardian Technology Blog, 5 October 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/oct/05/free-online-content-cory-doctorow
September 2010
3 posts
“The poor farmers who grew and harvested the “pulp” from which the...”
– “Literary review: What a load of Cobras”, Private Eye, no. 1270 (3-16 September 2010), p. 31
“So, to all the special interest groups and fine individuals with fine...”
– Jolie O’Dell, “Why We Don’t Need More Women In Tech… Yet”, 7 September 2010
http://jolieodell.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/women-in-tech/
“But really, when it comes to pervasive, omnipresent guitar sounds of the last...”
– Paul Lester, “New band of the day: Tamaryn”, The Guardian, 31 August 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/31/new-band-tamaryn
August 2010
3 posts
“LDDPR commissioned a poll which asked which of three regulatory options...”
– Ewan Hoyle, “Opinion: That Liberal Democrats for Drug Policy Reform poll”, Lib Dem Voice, 27 August 2010
http://www.libdemvoice.org/opinion-that-liberal-democrats-for-drug-policy-reform-poll-20886.html
“I am perfectly capable of assessing for myself the risks of swimming across a...”
– M.S., “Swimming and freedom”, Democracy In America, 25 August 2010
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/08/liberaltarianism_and_regulation
“In 1998, Q magazine invited readers to vote for the 100 Best Albums of All Time....”
– Alexis Petridis, “Arcade Fire: The Suburbs”, The Guardian, p. 12, 30 July 2010 (print) and 29 July 2010 (online)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/29/arcade-fire-the-suburbs-cd-review
July 2010
6 posts
“All professions suffer from a skewed public perception of their work. The...”
– Bethan Ruddock, “Is the reading room an echo chamber?”, Archives Hub Blog, 29 July 2010
http://archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/?p=2427
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Conspiracy theorists claim to believe that climate change and global warming is a carefully constructed hoax driven by scientists desperate for … what? Being needled by nonscientific newspaper reports, by blogs and by right-wing politicians and think tanks? I have a much simpler but plausible ‘conspiracy theory’: the fossil energy companies, driven by the need to protect hundreds...
“In every other sector, Conservatives insist that it is daft for human beings to...”
– George Monbiot, “For evidence of the real war involving motorists, look in the mortuary”, The Guardian, p. 25, 27 July 2010 (print) and 26 July 2010 (online)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/26/evidence-real-war-motorists-look-mortuary
“In fact, Google runs an entirely separate maps site, ditu.google.cn, for Chinese...”
– John Gravois, “The Agnostic Cartographer”, Washington Monthly, July/August 2010
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.gravois.html
“Remember, kids: the headphone’s connected to the iPhone, iPhone’s...”
– Nicholas Deleon, “M.I.A.’s Maya album rails against YouTube, Google, & the iPhone (& the Government, of course)”, CrunchGear, 7 July 2010
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/07/07/m-i-a-s-maya-album-rails-against-youtube-google-the-iphone-the-government-of-course/
“The American Psychological Association, in the wake of the Virginia Tech...”
– Johann Hari, “Did the media help pull the trigger on this shooting spree?”, 8 July 2010
http://www.johannhari.com/2010/07/08/did-the-media-help-pull-the-trigger-on-this-shooting-spree
May 2010
5 posts
“My contention is that there is nothing more intrinsically objectionable in women...”
– Jackie Ashley, “Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns”, The Guardian, 31 May 2010, p. 25
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/31/sex-city-male-female-fantasy
“Then we get to the real fake-Georgian pediment over the front door, the...”
– Aegir Hallmundur, “On turning the page”, The Ministry of Type, 15 May 2010
http://www.ministryoftype.co.uk/words/article/on_turning_the_page/
“Fernando Paiva, manager of Greens Cafe, said: “The road was closed when we...”
– Thom Airs, “Forensic officers remain at scene of stabbing”, The Oxford Mail, 8 May 2010
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8155092.UPDATE__Forensic_officers_remain_at_scene_of_stabbing/
“… immigration, a subject so taboo in modern Britain that even fearless...”
– Charlie Brooker, “Picking a leader boils down to the question: ‘Which stage persona do you prefer?’ Answer: not Cameron’s” (print) “Election 2010: Which leader’s public persona do you prefer?” (online), The Guardian G2, p. 5, Monday 3 May 2010
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“The Facebook application itself sucks … with all that data about me, the...”
– Dan Yoder, “Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook”, rocket.ly, 26 April 2010
http://www.rocket.ly/home/2010/4/26/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook.html
April 2010
4 posts
“I chose to remain a domiciled taxpayer for a couple of reasons. The main one was...”
– J.K Rowling, “The single mother’s manifesto”, The Times, 14 April 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article7096786.ece
“Bikes aren’t particularly difficult to see in broad daylight, if you’re looking...”
– Small Beds and Large Bears, “If you’ve no way to hide then you’ve nothing to fear”, 10 April 2010
http://www.biggrandejatte.co.uk/smallbeds/?p=2432
“You’ve got to admire the Digital Economy Bill. It made thousands of people...”
– Gary Marshall, “The Digital Economy Bill proves digital democracy doesn’t work”, TechRadar, 8 April 2010
http://www.techradar.com/682134
“Here’s what’s actually happening. Mattel, which owns the rights to...”
– Stefan Fatsis, “Don’t Panic: Proper Nouns Will Not Be Allowed in Scrabble”, Slate, 6 April 2010
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2010/04/06/don-t-panic-proper-nouns-will-not-be-allowed-in-scrabble.aspx