My del.icio.us links: 6th August to 12th August
- The Ministry of Silly Walks –
- Shut up about gutenberg already – "The form of the book hasn't changed fundamentally in five hundred years," they tell us. It's like saying the form of the wheel hasn't changed fundamentally since the Bronze Age. Which is true enough—until you try putting a wagon wheel on your car.
- A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope – Crikey. If you watch Star Wars prequels, you realise that actually R2D2 and Chewbacca are the real movers and shakers, and in a pretty dark way too.
- How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time – A strategy
- Should Orwell endure? – "because my worldview is so different from that of Orwell and his Cold War-era readers, I have to “think” my way into their political struggles in a way that someone even twenty years ago probably did not"
- Muslim Victims of 9/11 –
- 'Inception': Summer's Best, Most Disappointing Blockbuster – "For all its elegant construction, Inception is a film in which nothing feels comparably at stake. (In this it resembles Nolan's The Prestige, another admirably heady tale of perception and reality that never quite found a hearty emotional grip.)"
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