Photos posted Sunday 4 August 2013
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Pepys Diary erasure project
Diary readers might find these blog posts intriguing.
At Pepys' Diary Site News on 27 Jul 2013
Mike Johnston’s 266 (or so) Books By Genre
Over on The Online Photographer the host Mike Johnston recently wrote about a list of books he’s been compiling for some time:
At Septivium on 25 Mar 2013
Links for Sunday 4 August 2013
- John Lanchester · Are we having fun yet?: The Biggest Scandal of All · LRB 4 July 2013
- This and the second part are so worth a read. Banks are mind-boggling.
- Slavoj Žižek · Trouble in Paradise: The Global Protest · LRB 18 July 2013
- “To demand consistency at strategically selected points where the system cannot afford to be consistent is to put pressure on the entire system.”
Digital pianos
When I’ve decided to buy a new thing, I love doing the research. I can, and usually do, spend months slowly getting to grips with the state of a market before I spend a money on something. It’s the kind of slow investigation that one can short circuit by relying on a site like Which? or The Wirecutter’s, but recently I’ve been looking into digital pianos, a niche that gets little mainstream coverage.
In Writing on 28 Jul 2013
Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield ordered to leave UK | World news | The Guardian
This is outrageous. I can't believe things could go this wrong in this day and age.
A comment on another site on 23 Jun 2013