Category: old blogging

Interesting and pretty picture of the Earth at night, which I’m sure has been linked elsewhere before, but is worth looking at again. Thanks to grayblog reader Simon for reminding me of this.

Another glorious sunny morning – long may it last, although there is a thought at the back of my mind about the lack of rainfall.

News sources page updated.

Happy birthday to Dave Beasant, Brighton goalkeeper, 44 today and surely the oldest player in the Nationwide league.

via Wallpaper comes news of a forthcoming exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London by artists Langlands and Bell. The exhibiton includes a piece called The House of Osama Bin Laden, an interactive digital model which allows virtual exploration of the house and its surroundings. It is profiled in depth in this month’s Wallpaper, or you can find information about the exhibition here. Certainly looks well worth visiting.

Sticking with media news, I see that Wallpaper magazines, a division of the AOL Time Warner behemoth, has scrapped production of Wallpaper’s sister magazine Spruce after just three issues. I have to admit that I struggled to see how a bi-annual fashion supplement in the Wallpaper mold could either succeed or fit within the existing Wallpaper roster. Clearly the editorial team (and marketing and finance bods) have come to the conclusion that it is best to serve this part of the remit within the pages of Wallpaper. Which is a good thing, in my view.
As compensation, we subscribers will be getting a one-off extension to our subscription, and all future issues of Wallpaper will be sent to us with a special subscriber-only front cover, featuring less clutter on top of the cover image. Supposedly, these will be worth more than the high street copies to collectors of the magazine, and as a set of issues 1-10 recently fetched US$1000 in New York, I’ll be looking after mine more carefully than I have done.

Timeliness is the key: my new online news resources page is online.
I’ll be adding to this over the next week or so, and will probably add some non-English language resources too. Tips welcome.

Interesting. As the BBC seems to be putting as many journalists into the Iraq area as possible, the Americans are leaving.
Mind you, I’m not sure I’d be particularly keen to hang around the Iraqi capital at the moment.

The Straits Times, bless ’em, are currently featuring this image and caption on their front page:

Why don’t we get protestors like that here?

The BBC is blogging the Gulf conflict.