May 2013

(Been in the queue for a while) I’d assumed that actually *lots* of intelligent people considered Withnail and I charmless drinking-game boorishness (NB I don’t, obviously) — Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) March 29, 2013 So, why should you watch Withnail & I, other than just for the laughs? Comedy built on tragedy There’s Monty, tragically alone,…

Read More Monty. Monty!…

“biased public opinion” has caused 70 percent of the civil servants to feel “stressed”, with about 30 percent of respondents saying they were “severely stressed.” news reports in the recent years have exaggerated the negative portrayals of civil servants and are often connected with phrases like “forced demolition”, “intercepting petitioners”, and “secret prisons.” You could…

Read More why won’t they report the good news?

So, the Kenyan Police counter-terrorism spokesman has this to say: “Kenya’s government arrested Michael Olemendis Ndemolajo. We handed him to British security agents in Kenya and he seems to have found his way to London and mutated to Michael Adebolajo,” a Kenyan counter-terrorism spokesman, Muthui Kariuki, told the Associated Press. He added: “The Kenyan government…

Read More A very Blairite disaster

Gavin Kelly argues that it doesn’t much matter, from a practical point of view, what the Eds decide about the coming spending review. It covers 2015 and 2016, and administratively speaking changing it wouldn’t have much impact before the end of the financial year in April, 2016. After all, the Tories and the Lib Dems…

Read More Faster, please.

So I was thinking about user-experience design, specifically watching my partner squinting at the web-based paper-marking interface built into the British universities’ joint monster Turnitin plagiarist killer. And I’d said to Oliver Rivers that few things fascinate me more than human-computer interaction, but then again most things seem to fascinate me in the end. OK,…

Read More A short homage to the ThinkPad keyboard