- First they came for the quangos…
I imagine this one will be doing the rounds today.
- Kupenga Kwa Hamlet at Oval House Theatre 16th November to 4th December
I am told that this is "An exhilarating re-telling of the classic story of betrayal and vengeance, told by two outstanding, award-winning Zimbabwean performers using music, dance and a fusion of traditional African storytelling with contemporary Township Theatre practice. Fast, powerful, moving and unlike any other Shakespeare you have ever seen." I'm planning on going. Anyone else?
- Osborne will escape public wrath if Labour lets him win the blame game | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian
Good piece on the importance of the blame game in today's cuts. Remember: it is not Labour who is responsible for these cuts. If you are disposed to blame someone other than the current government, I suggest you blame the bankers. And if you are disposed to suggest that they should have been more heavily regulated, then, well, I agree with you. And I suggest you ask yourself how the Conservative party of the time argued they should have been regulated. (Hint: it was not more heavily.)
- london futures | images that bring ideas to life and frame the climate change debate in a way that everyone can understand
Will have to try and get to the Museum of London to see this.
Tag: theatre
Bookmarks for October 8, 2009
- The Berlin Reunion – The Big Picture
By the look of it, Royal de Luxe knocked it out of the park again. I really, really wish they'd come back to London. I mean, I know we got them a few yers ago, and everyone should get a turn too, but they really are a dose of pure magic, and I would love to seem them perform again.
Bookmarks for July 31, 2009
- Money – a Shunt event
I am unsure exactly what this is, other than "interesting". Who's in?
- Lightning – The Big Picture – Boston.com
It's another Big Picture link. You know it means there are pretty things, so why are you still here reading this text? Get on with the clicking!
- inessential.com: Anatomy of a feature
I think I may send this one to my boss, all our clients, and really, anyone who thinks that a simple feature that can be summed up in a sentence of English must therefore be easy to add to any program. "It's just a single field to do X" is almost never "just" anything.
Bookmarks for February 5, 2009
- Southbank Centre > Music > Mouse on Mars soundtrack Herzog's Fata Morgana
Anyone interested in this? Herzog + weird German Electro sounds like a moral victory to me.
- Should The New York Times Ditch Paper, Distribute Kindle E-readers?
According to one set of maths, it might actually work out cheaper for the paper to give away Kindles for a while, and then switch to digital only. The logic is flawed in a number of places (the move would cripple their ability to pick up new readers in the short term for example), but it's still fascinating to see that even with e-paper equivalent as expensive as the Kindle, the maths looks to be becoming favourable.
- Open the Future: Flunking Out
Jamais Cascio explaining quite clearly why the academic program offered by the recently opened "Singularity University" is a load of old trousers, and offering a rather more sensible sounding educational program for teaching people to think about the coming years/decades.
- DesignAday – Truism
"Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever." Having recognised that as true, I don't particularly need to refer to the actual this link myself, but I thought I'd mark anyway it just as an action to ensure I commit it to memory.