August 2010

Owen Hatherley has an immense post about Sheffield, modernism, socialism, privatisation, etc. Which reminded me of an estate agent ad I saw recently, for a gaff in the Highgate New Town estate. The sales-slug referred to a “3 double bedroom apartment in an architecturally-designed ex-local authority development, with 19′ kitchen/diner, 12′ reception, and exclusive access…

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The Stiftung reckons that the Wikileaks dump of ISAF’s sigacts log is more significant than we give it credit for. Well, perhaps. I’ve not yet dug into the data pile, but I’ve not been very impressed by the news version of it. Especially, I’m not very impressed by the news coverage; I was reading the…

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