by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Reading
Nice eulogy of tennis and Federer via The most beautiful game | Prospect Magazine. For me, tennis is great because it is genuinely mano-a-mano close combat with rules. With very little opportunity for third party intervention, it comes down predominantly to the mental...
by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Reading
Don’t Blame the Papers: the declining political influence of the printed press tells the sad story of the decline of the printed press as the principal source of news in the UK. Sad only because TV is the new main source. Engaget makes a sensible argument that...
by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Inner Mongolia: China’s turbulent secret. Worth reading as a counter to the generally benign progress visible in China’s Tier 1 cities. Not all roses, by any stretch. End of cheap labour. It’s all very well hoping that we can move the world’s...
by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Reading
Asking a sensible question which we don’t and can’t have an answer to yet, Big Picture has some extraordinary pictures of weather and its results. Is weather becoming more extreme?
by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Reading
The Clock in the Mountain is not the title of a Bones episode. It is, rather, a truly wonderful and beautiful idea. Design and build a clock that can work for 10,000 years, whether or not any human is there to wind it or see it. More such projects, please.
by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Business, Reading
I’m not sure I needed the human colour of highly-paid executives weeping at injustice, but there are some interesting ideas in Behind corporate walls, the masters of the universe weep. We as workers can shift what work is for us. The suggested themes are good:...
