AMAZING. And he mentioned Amartya Sen too…
Deputy Michael D Higgins speaking on reducing the minimum wage during the Labour PMM.
So badass, I wish politicians did this more often.
Here here.
What a guy.
(Source: youtube.com)
BLIMEY THAT IS NICE: Pretty interesting article on advertising on the Guardian site...
Pretty interesting article on advertising on the Guardian site today…
‘We are not born with our values: they are embedded and normalised by the messages we receive from our social environment. Most advertising appeals to and reinforces extrinsic values. It doesn’t matter what the product is: by…
No Time And Yet A Life: US muscle reigns, but there's a world of difference in value - University Rankings
‘Howard Hotson, professor of early modern intellectual history at the University of Oxford, who has become a prominent critic of the government’s higher education policy, said: “You can turn the data from the World University Rankings upside down and inside out…to measure different things; but…
Don’t know what to think about this whole neutrino business. I mostly think it’s pretty exciting, but may mean I need to remember/catch up on a whole bunch of physicsy stuff that I wasn’t paying enough attention to previously if I’m not gonna feel all out of touch and old fashioned when they start teaching string theory at school. Or something.
Also, does this mean that we’re going to see a scientific revolution in action…? Does this count as a critical experiment…?
This is possibly the geekiest post I’ve ever written. Well done Shazia for spurring me on…tsk.
It’s funny how I spent 4 years trying so hard not to read scientific papers, but here I am, with a job app on one side of the screen and the other side I searched for the recent paper on neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light, that if incidentally were to be true, would destroy all fundamentals of physics and Einstein’s relativity… and our degrees…
I will get the app done tonight though…
Heeeerrrre we go. New illustration for October issue of Creative Review. It’s for an article written by Gordon Comstock, ‘Riots and responsibility; guilt touches an icy adman’s heart,’ a pretty amazing read on the role advertising played in the London riots…
“But let us be clear: we are in the business of encouraging people to want things. Branding is designed to direct their desire toward specific objects: Nike not Adidas, Apple not Nokia, etc. The dogma that we’re peddling is that the only thing that will make you happy is getting precisely what you want…
Seen in this light the riots do have a political aspect. The left-wing thinker, Slavoj Zizek,
points out their “moment of protest, an ironic response to the consumerist ideology ‘You call on us to consume, while simultaneously depriving us of the means to do it – so here we are doing it, the only way we can.’”
I hear on the electronic grape vine that it’s on page 74.
http://www.toystereo.com/
I wrote my first post for toystereo. It’s been a long time coming. And, despite it being a blog written by a group of friends, I still find it a bit scary.
I’ve been gone a little while. I’ll do more stuff soon. But for now, look at how lovely End of the Road was. I am a fan of the awkward pose…
