July 2011
41 posts
“Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.”
(Sylvia Robinson)
— From London, via my wise friend Hazel.
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen (via aconversationoncool)
— From SF.
Best mate Liam
In a loving obituary about Sean Hoare, the former News of the World journalist who went on the record to The New York Times Magazine about phone hacking, Marina Hyde describes his many professional escapades. Hoare died on Tuesday at his home.
“His doorstepping technique was idiosyncratic. “Leave this to me, boys,” he told reporters assembled outside the Gallaghers’ house....
Peeves: Anti-Americanisms →
Everybody calm down.
The Economist’s language blog, Johnson, responds to the now-infamous BBC News compilation of some of the “Americanisms” Brits supposedly detest, and sets the record straight on quite a few of them, suggesting that a lot of that whining is motivated by ignorance rather than informed pedantry. Here are a couple of examples:
What kind of word is...
WatchYesterday, Enrico took us to the Seward Street Slides.
The video above is of Jason and Enrico in a synchronized slide. Look at these smiles.
Here’s Jason, falling on his ass. Here’s Enrico, crashing in the sand pit. Here’s me, filming (and screaming) while I slide.
Then, we stole plums from the neighbor’s tree. Yeah, we had fun.
— From SF.
PS: here are all the...
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost (via tobia) (via jslr)
— From London.
Consultation on UK Family Migration →
hithisisdanielle:
Those of you who are here (or plan to come to the UK) on a Family Visa should read this consultation for proposed changes to family path migration.
These changes include:
5 year minimum requirement for ILR (currently 2 year)
minimum income threshold
Removing ILE
Restricting amount of spousal visas
Requiring a ‘balance of attachment’ to the UK
This will effect those of...
WatchVincent Moon, Elvis Perkins, a song, While You Were Sleeping in the streets of Paris. Another beautiful Take-Away Show at La Blogothèque.
Thank you, Jenn, for putting this on my radar.
— From SF.
Don't you dare take away our right to...
France wants to remove its citizens’ right to hold foreign passports. For someone like me, this sucks, because:
I’m French Colombian.
I’d like Jason to become French one day, but not at the cost of losing his American citizenship.
Our children - when they exist - should be able to be all those things too.
Even the US ended the practice of having naturalized people give up ...
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While He Was Sleeping.
By now, most of you know how it all started with Jason. On February 4th, 2009, I sent him an email with the subject “This Is Not Spam.” For months prior to that day, a mutual friend had forwarded me links that led to his blog or Flickr stream. Jason knew nothing of me. Our mutual friend had kept me a secret.
While You Were Sleeping was chosen in homage to the friendship that developed...
Mike Arrington and Rebekah Brooks have one thing...
Mike Arrington, editor and founder of TechCrunch, threw an enormous tantrum last month, after Caterina Fake, co-founder of Hunch and Flickr, made it clear she wasn’t going to play his game.
It went down like this: Arrington called to tell her he had information on the funding of her next start-up and that he was going to run the story. She decided to publish that info herself. Next thing...
The Economist aren't mincing their words...
… And it is a turn-on.
First, on the Murdoch scandal:
Some MPs have called for News Corporation’s purchase of the 61% of BSkyB it does not already own to be delayed, while Britain’s media regulator investigates whether the firm is a “fit and proper” owner of the satellite-TV company. That is a stretch. The acquisition, which this newspaper thought was fair, is a matter of competition...
A failure and a triumph
I’m writing this as Rupert Murdoch is en route to London to deal with a scandal of epic proportions most of you will already have heard about. One of his tabloids, the weekly The News of the World, was surprisingly shut this week after years of illegal phone-hacking and bribing of policemen finally became untenable.
There are many facets of this story that are incredibly disturbing ranging from...
WatchAssiette: Garden of Delight
Cute narrative on a plate.
— Via Nowness, from Melbourne.
Hello, @WYWSleeping. →
All of our updates will now be tweeted.
Why it took me over two years to do this is a bit beyond me, but here it is. Find us at the handle above and follow us.
And many thanks to the wonderful Aaron for his help with all of it.
— From SF, tweeting.
Oh dear. Look what I've found. →
Meet 2007 me, stranded in Brussels, hating every minute of it, longing for my beloved London.
— From SF.
Chavez: It's Cancer →
adam-wola: Last night, after many of us went to bed, Venezuelan TV played a 15-minute speech from Hugo Chávez. Nobody had heard a word from the Venezuelan President since early June; on the 10th he was operated on in Havana for a “pelvic abscess,” then dropped almost totally from contact. Now this:
A check-up revealed a pelvic abscess, which was drained and treated with antibiotics on ...
