January 2010
26 posts
“In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value...”
– Sayre’s Law
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures →
Exploring data from the OKCupid dating site. Fascinating stuff, and like @bengoldacre, I’d kill to rustle through the raw data.
This week, I will mostly be listening to...
Vampire Weekend - Contra (Listen on vampireweekend.com)
The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Spotify link)
Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules (Spotify link)
Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey (Spotify link)
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (Spotify link)
You can also pick these up on Amazon here and here.
Homeopathy: There's nothing in it | The 10:23... →
“At 10:23am on January 30th, more than 300 homeopathy sceptics nationwide will be taking part in a mass homeopathic ‘overdose’.” — Haha, I may get involved with this.
WatchOne of the best songs (and albums, for that matter) of 2009, and I only discovered it on about the 29 December. Better late than never — “Charlie Darwin” by The Low Anthem (via Vimeo)
“That horrible wah-wah and all those funkless chops became the bedrock of the...”
– Slightly over the top, if reasonably accurate, critical review of The Stone Roses debut (reissue) from The Quietus
Tourist killed by 'dinosaur-sized' shark off South... →
“Zimbabwean holidaymaker eaten by shark described by onlookers as ‘longer than a minibus’”
2007 Boekenhoutskloof Syrah - 92/100 on Cork'd →
Amazon explorers uncover signs of a real El Dorado →
Thanks to satellite imagery and deforestation, researchers have discovered traces of a city carved into the upper Amazon basin near Brazil’s border with Bolivia. Some 200 large earthworks have been found, but this is estimated to be just a fraction of the whole. Dated anywhere from 200AD to 1283, they could represent a city of up to 60,000 people: far larger than most medieval European...
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Sherlock Holmes
Directed by Guy Ritchie (2009)
I feel like I should be stood in a circle of people saying this but … my name is Jordan, and I enjoyed a Guy Ritchie film.
There, I said it.
Sherlock Holmes is not just good fun, but it’s actually just plain good too. Robert Downey Jr somehow pulls off Holmes as an erratic, bristly character with a charm that can only be described as...
New year's resolutions 2010
When I was a younger boy, 2010 seemed so futuristic and far away, I couldn’t coceive even being alive when the hovercars passed by it’s opening moments. Who ever thinks that far into the future?
I think I consider 2009 a success (moved into a new fantastic house, with a most fantastic person, managed to achieve at least a handful of last year’s resolutions), as 2010 meanders by...
