Robert Sharp

Posts Tagged ‘Writing’

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

My del.icio.us links: 7th June to 21st June

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button
2008 Design Trends - Its the year of the 'Vintage' and 'Texture' look, of which I am a purveyor.
Project Gutenberg - There are over 25,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg

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Thursday, June 5th, 2008

My del.icio.us links: 30th May to 5th June

Four Days in Denver - A 'West Wing' Writer Imagines the Showdown at the Democratic National Convention
The Body's Grace - If the creator were quite so instrumentalist in "his" attitude to sexuality, these hints of prodigality and redundancy in the way the whole thing works might cause us to worry about whether he was, after all, in full rational control of it. But if God mad
We Hate the Kids pt1 - Laurie Penny on Liberal Conspiracy: "And suddenly the biscuit-eating public is frightened again."

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Saturday, May 17th, 2008

My del.icio.us links: 12th May to 16th May

My gateway to infinity - Clive James again: "It can talk about value, saying not just “This is what I have done” but “This is what others have done, and I find it valuable beyond price”.
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Music Gives Me Hope - Daniel Barenboim on the decline of Israeli socialism and the unifying power of music: "Before a Beethoven Symphony, all human beings are equal"
USA political election logos 2008 - 1960 - I think Nixon's use of a full stop is particularly interesting.
normblog: Israel at 60 - “Those who cannot celebrate the existence of Israel but only criticize it, put themselves beyond all sense of sympathy with the legitimate concerns of the Jewish people - as if these had no basis, no rationale, no historical genesis; as if Israel’s history was solely about usurpation and error; as if it was not itself born under the threat of annihilation, a threat that is ever renewed.”

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