December 2009
34 posts
“The creation of rules is more creative than the destruction of them.”
– A. Zittel
“You know…bullets. But it sounds much more technical and science-fictiony to say...”
– Joseph Shoer (The Physics of Space Battles — great stuff)
“The Climb is about as inspiring as a Lion bar … Listening to it from...”
– Rage Against the Machine? Raging within the machine will do for now
Official Table of Drops →
1996 Domaine Michel Lafarge Bourgogne Aligoté -... →
“Work is not about work anymore, it’s about interruption.”
– Jason Fried
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Coraline
Directed by Henry Selick (2009)
Magical, marvellous, and beautifully made — to say I thoroughly enjoyed Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach) Selick’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline would be an understatement.
While the concept and story are fairly well-trodden regions of children’s fiction (from the magic of Lewis Carroll, to the...
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Reviews, reviews, reviews
I have so many to catch up on. Been catching up on a lot of film recently but found no time to write. Coraline (magical), Let The Right One In (haunting), Disgrace (brilliant), The Host (not the film you expect), The Forever War (the book: terrific). Full reviews to follow soon, this is just to remind myself…
Is bigotry at the heart of English football's... →
Wonderful piece in the guardian from Paul Doyle on the hypocrisy of English players and managers who complain incessently about the ‘foreign’ act of diving and simulation. Bravo, Mr Doyle.
“So when should you make business decisions? When you have the most information,...”
– Let pedestrians define the walkways | Derek Sivers
“Religion has the hallmarks of an evolved behavior, meaning that it exists...”
– Nicholas Wade, The Evolution of the God Gene (NY Times, via Derren Brown)
