Author: Alasdair

Bookmarks for September 5, 2010

Bookmarks for August 31, 2010

  • The lady vanishes: Invisible Wife Syndrome | Celebrity | Relationships | Life and style | The Guardian
    Good, if possibly depressing, article on what happens to partners when their other half has a famous career, covering sexism, being left at home and as a coda at the end, the Yoko factor, containing this quote. I've always had a soft spot for Yoko (despite loathing "Imagine" with all my shrivelled black heart)…

    "Yoko was, and is, interesting in her own right. She's a remarkable artist and a unique thinker. All of the things you think of John Lennon doing in the late-60s and early-70s were inspired entirely and directly by Yoko: the avant-garde art, the politics, the whole peace and love thing. She is responsible for the Lennon we remember and love today, and yet she is at best ignored and at worst vilified… For what, exactly? Being loved by him?"

    Tags: fame, sexism, yoko

Bookmarks for August 27, 2010

Bookmarks for August 25, 2010

  • Cope » Every thing is a play thing
    On the one hand: a nerdy deconstruction of the plot holes in the Toy Story 3 and their implications for the franchise is rather missing the point of the film, in that it's a work about emotion, and you're supposed to forgive narrative flaws if you notice them, because they're in the service of a emotional point. But I'm certain Wallis knew that when he wrote this. His broader point, though, is excellent: that all narrative is now interactive narrative, and that people will take any narrative, and find things in it the creator never intended, and invent new material in the vacant spaces of all stories, and that decrying that is pointless – we should be embracing it.
    Tags: narrative
  • russell davies: 5 things
    I am particularly interested in the first two, and wish to remember to return to those ideas later.
    Tags: web, 5things
  • Silicon Valley's secret rock star – Fortune Tech
    This isn't big news, or anything I'm going to need later, this just made me smile.
    Tags: music

Bookmarks for August 19, 2010

Really Quite Unecessary

Another one from the department of only-of-interest-to-me, but I have spent most of the night writing a little tool to delete the vast swathe of duplicate posts that my shiny new-edition blog dumped back into my LJ. I have no idea if this means that the people who got a swathe of notifications the other day are going to get another swathe – in any event my apologies for one or both sets of pointless email garbage, but with any luck, that’ll be the last of it. And I can go back to playing computer games with my free time, instead of coding.

Bookmarks for August 17, 2010