#culture

http://www.clapclap.org/2007/04/hallelujah.html

A short cultural history of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. If, like most people, you think it's always...

http://www.slate.com/features/010510_fashion-slide...

Really intresting case against modern fashion photography - that it's become bland, by-comittee stuf...

http://www.fimoculous.com/year-review-2007.cfm

A page aggregating all the various "best of" lists that get published at this time of year. I'm a s...

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/11/...

Short article on the texting habits of US teenagers, and the social conventions that initially sprun...

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/

The Journal of Computer Mediate Communication has a special issue on social networking. Probably no...

http://www.adbusters.org/metas/corpo/blackspotshoe...

Suffering from the periodic urge I get to replace my wardrobe with Cayce Pollard Units (everything p...

http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/08/03/userge...

Clay Shirky suggests that we replace "User Generated Content" with "Indigenous Content" meaning cont...

http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2007...

Guestblogging at NDG, a series of pictures of the exhibition of the graphic design of The Hacienda,...

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/0...

Mr Stross has some ideas about the sort of future we're moving towards. There's not much that won't...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/074327698...

I'm not letting myself buy this now, because I have a too-read pile that's still massive, but I want...

http://www.westword.com/2003-09-04/news/72-hour-pa...

A account of a 72 hour meth-fuelled party. Meth's another of my small list of "no, I don't think I...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7661663613...

I haven't had time to watch the whole thing, but Lessig's work is always very sharp, and Cory Doctro...

http://edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html

The usual blend of thinkers, innovators and futurists are asked this year's question by the Edge Que...

http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-W...

An experiment: give kids free internet access, and no explantion of how it works. See what they do....