or “leela i have made a terrible mistake”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community and from now on also crossposted at FT.
In a bid to recoup[…]

zombie cricket: because the flipside of “hauntology” — the residual power of seemingly vanished projects — is the obnoxious material residue of projects that you fondly believe must have vanished (and should have), but still s[…]

Hullo all! For a project I am working on which I shall reveal soon(ish), I would like your wise suggestions in four categories:
viz
A: music writers all should read (two parts)
B: music writing all should read (two parts)
C: zone of exchange that al[…]

If you have google earth, then paul rademacher‘s plug-in will help you visualise the physical scale of this environmental disaster — just type in the locale of your choice as the epicentre[…]

I can’t quite parse Anish Kapoor’s expression here, but some of those other smiles seem a little forced.

via comments at Blood and Treasure. Better views of Kapoor’s Orbit here[…]

Nepalese Maoists: “Long Live Prachandapath“[…]

Distributed processing is great…until it isn’t. Similarly, distributing tasks among independent nodes allows us to scale up easily and to achieve greater reliability. However, these goals are often in conflict. The more cooks you have in the kitc[…]

ok i ett this yesterday: had been swimmin w/dr vick near victoria park, and she was keen to check out the weird village-y bit of victoria park road — it comes across like dulwich village except without a not-as-good-as-it-thinks-it-is minor pub[…]

a piece i’ve often wanted to write has been something about the switch from dourly puritan late-50s stasis (back-to-backs you will never escape) to slippy mid-60s mobility: this — possibly deluded — urgent new sense that you could g[…]

(This is a series in which FT contributors read the ghost stories of M. R. James. Hey! It is not going as slowly as some FT series! But er yes, it has taken me quite a time to get round to this one. If you want to read it first — and do, bcz t[…]