Day: March 16, 2008
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The kind of news I wish The Atlantic was wrong about
Jim Fallows reminds us that The Atlantic’s efforts to be timeless rather than timely often result in scarily accurate predictions. I wish 2005’s Countdown to a Meltdown were less accurate. 🙁 Just one of the many points, written as a memo to the incoming president of 2016: For politicians every aspect of this cycle was…
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Sunday night links
Cleaning out the personal inbox, I find… Long profile of Marissa Meyer at Google, from San Francisco magazine, strays from the tech, deliberately. An interesting application for a tablet PC, where physics acts on 2D objects line-drawn with a “crayon.” A mapping application for Facebook, which I haven’t installed. Worry about how to back up…
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Book: The Great War for Civilisation
The name Robert Fisk was new to me when my friend Chris dropped this weighty-in-every-sense book on me many weeks ago. A reporter for the UK newspaper The Independent for several decades, Fisk has his own unofficial website. This is an advocacy site, though not affiliated with Fisk himself. Why does a reporter who lives…
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Book: The Golden Compass
One reason I keep this journal, however infrequently, is to avoid re-reading. However, sometimes the act is deliberate. The boy poured through the three volumes of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, and returns to them often. So, to keep up, I re-read The Golden Compass. Now when quizzed about my favorite parts or characters, I’ll…