Montbretia in Dunquin. Botanists classify it as a “noxious weed”. It adds colour to every hedgerow in Kerry.
You can’t be too rich…
… or too thin, as some famous actress once said. This disgracefully smug ad for the new iMac made me think of it.
Westward Ho!
Looking westwards along the Dingle Peninsula last evening. No time to PhotoShop the telegraph pole out of the picture, alas.
Still life with fire hydrant
The beauty of Plain English
This morning’s Observer column…
‘Political language’, observed George Orwell in his great essay on ‘Politics and the English Language’, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’ Much the same applies to the output of the public relations industry. One of the most important public services that mainstream journalism can provide, therefore, consists of decoding PR-speak: translating its half-truths, unsupported assertions and evasions into plain English…
This column is really a celebration of John Gruber’s lovely translation of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’.
Orwell would have loved it.
Did you Know 2.0?
Intriguing, thought-provoking video about the world for which our kids are (not being) educated.
Thanks to Tony Hirst for the link.
A new form of user-generated content
Yep — Roll your own video games. From Tech Review.
Damn Spam
Lovely New Yorker essay by Michael Specter on the pestilence that is junk email.
Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily for spotting it.
Ndiyo in the Guardian!
Hooray! Nice piece by Andrew Brown in today’s Guardian Technology supplement. Note engaging picture of Quentin in triplicate. Must clip it out and send it to his parents. The boy done good!
Who needs Al Jazeera…
… when they can have this?
Thanks for Gerard for finding it.