December 2010
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Best of 2010: Music
This year I’ve listened to more music, and purchased more music, than in any previous year. But still, I’d hesitate to say I’m any kind of music nerd, and my enjoyment of music is restricted to listening to it (compared to my obsessive interest in other areas of popular culture). But there have definitely been some good albums from the past year that I’ve added to my collection, and here are my...
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Best of 2010: Books
As always, very few of the books that I read are new to this year, so this isn’t so much a list of the best books of 2010 that I read, but rather the best books that I read in 2010. (All of the links go to my own reviews).
I’ve read quite a lot of non-fiction books this year, the best of which, by far, was the wonderful The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes. I also particularly enjoyed Bad Medicine...
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Best of 2010: Film
Looking at various ‘best of’ lists that have now appeared online, I’m embarrassed by how few films I saw this year. The past few years I’ve been quite a film geek, but this year I’ve been overtaken by a kind of pop culture ennui, and my film viewing has been most affected. There are plenty of good films I’ve missed at the cinema because I couldn’t be...
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Delicious' Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on... →
Earlier in the week it was announced that del.icio.us would be shutting down, which saddened me greatly. It has now be stated that instead it’s maybe just up for sale, but I’m not exactly sure what is really going on. Either way, this article makes an excellent point about how much of a waste it is to shut down the site. Personally I’ve used the site for years - I used it to save...
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Delicious' Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on... →
Earlier in the week it was announced that del.icio.us would be shutting down, which saddened me greatly. It has now be stated that instead it’s maybe just up for sale, but I’m not exactly sure what is really going on. Either way, this article makes an excellent point about how much of a waste it is to shut down the site. Personally I’ve used the site for years - I used it to save...
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Wolf Gang - Lions in Cages
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“That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time big...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Galápagos’
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“When the ship went down, it took the bones of James Wait with it, all mixed up...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Galápagos’
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“When the ship went down, it took the bones of James Wait with it, all mixed up...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Galápagos’
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“That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time big...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Galápagos’
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“The most destructive war in all history was finally over, but only at the cost...”
– Iain Banks, ‘Whit’
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Mono Lake Bacteria Build Their DNA Using Arsenic →
The news from NASA about the discovery of bacteria that can use arsenic in their DNA is pretty exciting. (For those who don’t know, my degree is in microbiology, and I have always found this kind of thing tremendously fascinating). It kind of sucks the way NASA hyped this up, knowing that a lot of people would assume they were about to announce alien life or something like that, but...
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“We need to understand how science is actually made; how scientists themselves...”
– Richard Holmes, ‘The Age of Wonder’
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