Pretty rainy

Pretty rainy

Miserable morning for rain, but improving now. Still pretty, though. I love how the hillsides seem to steam.

Guardian news list

Guardian Makes Editorial Schedule Public, Invites Readers to Contribute. Interesting experiment, and I hope they continue it. A good way to make the process of journalism more comprehensible and therefore more valuable.

It knows (Google, that is)

Daniel Soar reviews ‘The Googlisation of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)’ by Siva Vaidhyanathan, ‘In the Plex’ by Steven Levy and ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ by Douglas Edwards · LRB 6 October 2011. Great summary of the way Google works. My take-outs: we...
WeatherSpark has neat geek weather

WeatherSpark has neat geek weather

WeatherSpark | Beautiful Weather Graphs and Maps. Loving this, and the confirmation that it was pretty hot yesterday lunch time when we were looking for a restaurant for lunch.

Sober analysis of UK top executive pay

Pay at the top: to each according to results? to social contribution? … or to systemic privilege? summarises some rather depressing contributions to the debate. Are high executive and banking pay related to results? Or to social value added? Or does executive...