- LRB · David Runciman · I Could Fix That
- All interesting, but I particularly like the bits where Bill Clinton gets obsessed with details of things like Hubble and Dolly the sheep.
- What all this Leno/Conan/Late Night Gubbins is about: a primer for friends in the UK (from little.red.boat )
- Lengthy but clear explanation from Anna Pickard. Hurrah! I’m hoping she does get started on ‘Saturday Night Live’…
Links for Monday 18 January 2010
18 Jan 2010 in Photos
18 Jan 2010 at Twitter
- 09:30am: When you phone the estate office to report a problem and overhear "Do you want to take this one, for practice?" confidence is not inspired.
- 05:03pm: @spaceboy I think you're about to be horrified.
- 08:10pm: I know I'm doing this a lot but... does anyone want a (free) Sega Megadrive and a couple of games (FIFA 95 and Virtua Racing)?
18 Jan 2010 in Writing
- Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone
- I tested the speed of inputting text with pen and paper, full-size keyboard, iPhone, Palm Treo keyboard, Palm Graffiti and Apple Newton MessagePad.
On this day I was reading
- Total Immersion by Terry Laughlin
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1667 v. 8 by Robert Latham (Editor), William Matthews (Editor), Samuel Pepys (Author)
- London Review of Books, Vol. 31 No. 24, 17 December 2009
- Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Music listened to most that week
- Brian Eno (14)
- The Jam (6)
- Elvis Costello & The Attractions (5)
- Nina Simone (5)
- Talking Heads (5)
- Blondie (5)
- Boards of Canada (4)
- Wagon Christ (4)
- Luke Vibert (4)
- Elvis Costello (4)
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