Poll Gove

Despite reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (literal translation of the title: Men Who Hate Women) years after everyone else, it appears that it was actually a timely choice. The Guardian picks up on a short post by Jessica Mann:Authors must be free to write and publishers to publish. But critics must be free to say they have had enough. So ( Read more... )

I meant to say: the McMaster Report on excellence in the arts was published yesterday. The Guardian summarises it here but the main bullets are:

• All publicly funded organisations should drop admission prices for a week a year to overcome the "it's not for me" syndrome
• The board of every cultural organisation should have at least two artists as ( Read more... )

Decent parks? Decent behaviour?: the link between the quality of parks and user behaviour

Preventing anti-social behaviour in public spaces

Secured By Design

hal_duncan on hype. (As you might expect from Duncan this is quite very long.)

Nelson's Column is protected by illegal wood. Whoops.

Down with Hegel! A very interesting op-ed from the Vicar of Putney. A sort of follow up to this: Is Rowan Williams a humanist mole?

imomus on rhyming police advice. I'm not sure when risk management got conflated with ( Read more... )

Via MetaFilter a fascinating article on Urban Modernism in London by Owen Hatherley, who blogs at The Measures Taken. The most recent entry there is an article on Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

Also, architect Jeremy Till on democracy and participation.

Since I'm doing links here are a pair of crackers from BoingBoing: knitted nautiloids and human hair ( Read more... )

Guardian article about Textile Voices: A Century Of Mill Life published by the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit.

The Wool Exchange, 1935:


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Bradford isn't a suburb of Leeds.

I went to a lecture at the RSA called Civic Renewal: structures and spaces for a modern city last night. I made a few brief notes on the bits that interested me ( Read more... )

Last night I heard Lawrence Lessing give a talk at the Royal Geographical Society as part of LIFT 2004. Lessig is a Professor at Stanford Law School, an expert on copyright, DRM and the internet, and is heavily involved with things like Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His talk was on two IPs, Intellectual Property and ( Read more... )