Doris Lessing’s Nobel acceptance speech (The Guardian prints the full version) is causing waves about its attack on the Internet.
Of course Lessing is entitled to her own view but is out of kilter with some excellent stuff that is happening. Of course the ‘Net allows us pretty much instant access to knowledge and the user […]
The citizens of Portland, Oregon have set in motion a campaign to change 42nd Avenue into Douglas Adams Boulevard for the following reasons:
It will reflect Portlanders’ commitment to the arts.
It will reflect Portlanders’ respect for the environment.
It will reflect Portlanders’ desire to provide technological access to all.
It will reflect Portlanders’ passion to further education to […]
I wish I’d seen this before but BoingBoing has this link to a Times article and a Guardian piece on the exploits of les UX, an underground (quite literally) group of people who hold cultural events in the most unlikely of places. Since the discovery of a cinema, the French authorities have been ordered to […]
The BBC are running a series of readings and events inspired by the work of William Blake this week in their afternoon reading slots and Neil Gaiman’s story runs on Thursday. It will be available on the above link for a week. Michael Morpurgo, Jack Shepard and Jenny Worton also have stories.
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A.S. Byatt has written this review of The Age of Enchantment exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (phone: 020-8693 5254) which takes place from 28th November to 17 February 2008. The illustrations are include works the 1890s to the 1930s, the Golden Age of book illustration, and show the variety of ways that the faerie […]
Archaeologists are claiming to have found the cave the Romulus and Remus were suckled in by the she-wolf (the Guardian has a video here). I’m not sure whether to be happy or sad really. I liked the myth and its large smattering of implausibility but how it drove the early Romans to get on with […]
A Neal Stephenson thing from the BBC news site really but the Colossus machine (one of the first ever programmable computers) has been rebuilt and will be pitted against a modern PC to break codes sent from a 1942 Lorenz SZ42 machine. Originally Colossus could do the task in hours but it’ll be interesting to […]
The Independent is running an article by Timothy Taylor as an introduction to his documentary on the Discovery Channel at 9pm on Halloween called the “Real Vampires”. Normally these shows are little bits of a giggle and akin to watching a cat chase its own tail - nothing’s ever proved but the journey is quite […]
Oliver Curry, an evolutionary theorist at the LSE, opines that homo sapiens might well split into two strands like the Eloi and the Morlocks from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine in a report for the men’s television channel, Bravo. He does foresee issues with the growing importance on technology such as the loss of social […]
BoingBoing has this post on the interruption of a performance of Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine by somebody posing as a police officer citing Californian law.
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