August 2009
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Shorts: 16: Moments →
Beautiful short video made for RadioLab’s series on death and dying.
June 2009
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My vegan experiment
I’ve been reading and thinking about food politics for about the last 18 months, since I first came across Michael Pollan’s In Defence of Food and The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I was a bit late coming to the party, I know, but before reading these books, I really had little idea of what’s wrong in the world of food.
I became vegetarian a short while before my 15th birthday. ...
March 2009
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Digital sabbath
I spend too much time in front of computers. On the average day, I have seven hours at work, followed by anything from two to five hours at home in the evening. Most of this time is unproductive — it’s oh, so easy, to get sucked into playing around with this or that new application, or following links from Twitter, or, well, just clicking about here and there. The truth is that at the end...
February 2009
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A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN WHICH IT IS... →
January 2009
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Fun Home
I first came across Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic when Amazon recommended it as I checked out on another comics purchase. I had heard her name, or glimpsed it on a blog somewhere, and the Amazon readers’ reviews were so positive, that I decided to take a chance and buy the book. I’m so glad I did, as this is among the best examples of comic art that I’ve...
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Comics on my iPod Touch
Books still rule for me, but I am interested in some of the ebook readers that are now available, and when Amazon’s Kindle appears in the UK, I will certainly check it out. I’ve downloaded a few iPod applications for reading ebooks, and even bought a few books for them, but I still find it an unsatisfactory way to read. I prefer the feel of a book in my hands. However, since so...
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GPS tracking
Has anybody else noticed how often a villain is tracked and caught these days by signals from his or her mobile phone? In the last week I’ve seen at least three episodes of US crime drama shows — NCIS, Numbers, and CSI — where this was the main factor in catching the bad guy. (To put this in perspective: I don’t watch much TV, so this is almost every programme I’ve watched in the...
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Comics
For the past month or so, I’ve been reading a lot of comics. I’ve always read comics, since I was wee. I grew up on Asterix and Tintin — my Dad loves comics too, and he gave me them to read when I was very young. He tells me that he thought it was important I was reading, whatever it was I was reading… I’ve never really been into heroic comics, though — no Superman or...
Tumbling
I’ve tried blogging, but never got very far with it. Perhaps I don’t have the required attention-span. All the while that desert of a blog has been running, I’ve been writing all kinds of other things — stories, a poem now and then, articles and reviews. And I’ve made my way through a three-year counselling course… But the blog’s been quiet. Now and then I...