- Wall-E: One giant beep for mankind – "Pixar's films have always outstripped those of Dreamworks – maker of the Shrek series, among others – because they contain universal truths rather than a series of swiftly dated cultural in-jokes."
- How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand – Is evolution not the natural way forward? An alternate take would be: how do the French think that they can mandate changes in language?
- Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history – "Iraq is being forced to sell 75% of its national patrimony to pay the bills for its own illegal invasion and occupation."
Tag Archives: film
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 26th through June 27th
- Review: Charming Wall-E Sweeps Up Trash, Hearts – Seems that being bought by Disney has not cramped Pixars style. Definitely one that I'll see at the cinema.
- Labour fifth as Tories win Henley – When Labour get fewer votes than the BNP in a by-election there is a big problem…
- Legal, British P2P 'by end of year' – Is the music industry finally ready to embrace new distribution models?
My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 14th through May 17th
- The Dumbing Of America – "The toxic brew of anti-rationalism and ignorance hurts discussions of U.S. public policy on topics from health care to taxation." The article is about the US but it's also increasingly true here. Depressing.
- New Indiana Jones movie is dreadful – Oh dear. Like many people I'll probably still go see it anyway…
- SMS costs more than using Hubble Space Telescope – "Text messaging [is] anywhere from four to 42 times as expensive as talking to the Hubble."