1001 Albums in Spotify

If you are ever short of something to listen to, here’s a useful list of albums. Could take quite some time to listen to them all though! Thanks to the jonz for the link.

Good and bad changes for London

Very interesting list of undertakings that will be in place by 2012 (skyscrapers, hotels, retail, lots of things I didn’t know about the Northern Line, for example). However, the example set by Vélib in Paris doesn’t look so healthy now; I’m fairly...

What’s to be done with science?

As #alanjohnsonnuttsack continues to rumble on, there is a deep question emerging: how do we present science effectively. If we hold to the fact that all current science could be wrong, we get Clive James and others telling us we are promoting hatred. If we try and...

Bankers merely stupid and greedy?

Just in case you thought otherwise, it seems that there are some myths about the credit crunch. It looks like there are some good arguments against them: “Irrational exuberance”: It was pretty rational to gamble on property in the US, at least...

AdBlock for Chrome

Hmm. It will be tempting to move across to Chrome now that AdBlock is running. Only on developer builds at present.

Hidden message from the Governator

I hope that lots of legislators do this kind of thing. No-one can read all of the guff that is produced in an average government body, so I’m sure some bored civil servants must be doing it.