I think I nicked this one off Kottke. Wouldn't be the first time. A bit puzzled by what it's trying to say. His work day gets done really quickly because he has an Apple?
I got this the other day in San Francisco and the depth of the referencing within it is terrifying and incomprehensible. And yet somehow the plot sneaks through, and it all feels rather good fun.
I have to be honest, I've not been overly happy with the way that the work we started at the BBC with PIPs progressed after I left. This could drag it back on track, I suppose.
Radio 3 was supposed to be the model for a reinvigoration and restructuring of the whole URL space and programme represenation at the BBC, but I hear it got rather screwed up by the iPlayer and similar follies...
I was introduced to 'In Our Time' by Mr Webb and it was the first show that he managed to get out of the door in a podcast format. It was also the one that I was most interested in being annotated. Nice to see it happening.
I haven't had much of a chance to interrogate this yet, but conceptually at least it's a lovely idea. I do rather wish the BBC had done it (or something like it) though. Ah well.
Some good ones in there. Perhaps not for idle reading unless you're interested in the subjects, but still. Desperately interesting to annotate and fact-check them ,TheyWorkForYou style...
Inflatable trucks! Offices disguised as rubbish tips! Hollowed out tree stumps! Part of me squees with delight, part of me is a bit suspicious. Boy's own adventure stuff, this. Gloriously entertaining.
Atmospheric, funny, interesting and ingenious. Presumably accomplished by cutting the screen vertically and splicing in various elements with the lead singer hiding the gap in the middle.
Earlier this month, crushing rains left 20 people dead and over 20,000 stranded when overwhelming rainfall left five feet of standing water in the low-lying areas. This is on top of already taxed landscapes that flooded when melting Himalayan glaciers burst the 200 rivers that web across the country last year. Bangladesh under water is seeming like a real and permanent possibility.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — whose claims are usually conservative — said that Bangladesh is heading to lose 17 percent of its land and 30 percent of its food production by 2050. That's like California and New York drowning, and the whole Midwest ceasing production of food.
If this happens, more than 20 million Bangladeshis will be without a patch of land to stand on. Though hardship in the country isn't entirely recent: since 1971, Bangladesh has endured over 200 disasters that have left a total of 500,000 dead and affected a total of 500 million people.
And I haven't even said anything about the plague of rats that's consuming all of their food. A plague of rats. I wish, wish there was more room for stories like this in the general consciousness — shouldn't we be hearing about this every night? Not to dwell on the gloomy, but just knowing about this makes the answer to this question pretty clear to me.
Reuters - The Polish prosecutor's office is
investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland
where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have
used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser
said on Friday.
