Suggs: My Life Story In Words & Music at Olympia Theatre Dublin Expired. Very much enjoyed this somewhat unusual show last night. The Olympia is a fitting location for an intimate gig such as this.
People
Sport
Not a lot, it would seem, says Vincent Browne in the IT: Based on data the authors and others have assembled, Soccernomics claims: “The vast bulk of managers appear to have almost no impact on their teams’ performance and do not last very long in the job. They seem to add so little value that […]
Big Business
Regulation
Society
This is quite good: via Twitter / glitterylou: Yay! Proud to be from Swansea, well done whoever did this #ukip #ukipbillboards .
Arts
Moving Pictures
Sci-fi, Steampunk and all that
Buzzfeed has a selection of some stunning original concept art drawn by Ralf McQuarrie. It’s really something..
Arts
Delorean Moments
Sci-fi, Steampunk and all that
A vision of the future from a German magazine circa 1930 via Twitter / kathrynschulz.
Photography
So, I went and got that Vitoret DR from e-bay. It arrived on Friday, I dug out one of the old films I’ve had lying around (best before 2006), popped it in and in a few weeks I’ll see how that worked out! You see, this is old-school. The Vitoret DR was built between 1967 […]
Nature & Gardens
My tree peony has finally bloomed! They take a while to establish, this one took about three years.
Life
Society
Kira Cochrane has a great piece in the Guardian summarizing the issues with gendered toys. Do all girls really want to play with dolls and tea sets? Do all boys want guns and trucks? Of course not. Then why are toymakers so aggressive in marketing these stereotypes? Money, it seems is the answer. A segmented […]
People
Sport
Interesting piece in the FT on Moyes’ sacking, pointing out the remarkably short lifespan of Premier League managers: Image has become all the more important for managers in England since 1992, when Sky TV began showing live matches almost daily – something unprecedented in English football. Driven by Sky, newspapers expanded their coverage of the […]
Science!
Frank Bruni calls out Jenny McCarthy and the anti-vax campaigns in the NYT: There’s also this: How much time did physicians and public officials waste trying to neutralize the junk in which McCarthy trafficked? As Fred Volkmar, a professor at Yale University’s medical school, said to me, “It diverts people from what’s really important, which […]