This is too good, not to post in full: from David Smith. “There are 120 contributors [to a magazine feature that asked: 'what do you believe is true, even though you cannot prove it?]. From these, I have selected Esther Dyson. I have her dictum, ‘Always make new mistakes’, as a fridge magnet and her [...]
Entries from June 30th, 2008
Interactive learning: always a good thing?
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Education, Entrepreneurialism
Carolyn Cassady interview
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Literature
This is an interview I conducted earlier in the year with Carolyn Cassady. You can listen to it here. The fantastic illustration (left) was done by the talented Tom Kingsley. What a curse a cult novel seems to be . By connecting so acutely with the zeitgeist, books like On The Road tend to seduce [...]
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Interview with Sarah Hall
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Global Warming, Literature
This is an interview I conducted earlier this year for Notes from the Underground: In an interview after one particularly majestic display, Billie Jean King’s only explanation was a shrug: ‘I don’t know…sometimes you just…see the ball like a football.’ It’s an attractive notion – professionals unaccountably hitting form on certain days – and it [...]
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The ‘slide’?
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I’m coining a neologism, not being able to find the anatomical term on Google. The slide: that region of a man’s body between the bottom of his gut and the top of his pubis. In New York (from where I write), it seems to be the gold standard in male physique, stretching itself grandly over [...]
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Marginalia
June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Literature, Writing
… one of the brilliant inventions of the paper bureaucracy was the idea of the margin. The margin is a place on a paper form, which is designed for writing things down that are outside, both physically and conceptually, the form that “the system” expects. The thing about the margin is that it is connected [...]
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Things that make the hairs stand up…
June 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
To be updated… After Hours Ikea ad: Home Technorati Tags: After Hours, Ikea, Martin Scorsese
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A boon for Tory educational policy
June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Education, Politics (UK)
Is this the sort of thing the Conservatives want to include in their ‘Swedish-school’ education plan? Ex-comprehensive teacher praises his new independent school Technorati Tags: David Miliband,
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Smart guy
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics (UK), Social Networking, Web 2.0
David Miliband grows and grows in my estimation. First there was the interview with the FT; now, I’ve just come across this speech thanks to David Smith’s blog: To quote David Smith’s post in full: In two recent speeches, UK politicians are beginning to show they understand the web. First, George Osborne. And now, David [...]
The awakening of my e-consciousness
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Education, Web 2.0
I have just come across the phenomenal blog belonging to David Smith, a teacher at St. Paul’s. Found here. Just the notion of a Head of English at one school, re-launching himself as Director of ICT at another is a wicked one – especially in the English private school sector. But, more than that, he [...]
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