Author: KB
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Buying (sic)
Thanks to Jonny for the heads up on (sic). Just a note – if you’re in the US the prices, including delivery are approx $23 for hardback and $15 for paperback. From the UK the postage can be a lot. (Hardback $30 inc. delivery and $22 for paperback, about £18 or £14) However, I can…
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The Falling Man | ‘It is finished’
Last night Channel 4 showed a documentary (based on the Esquire article by Tom Junod) about Richard Drew’s horrific photograph from 9/11, which became known as ‘the falling man.’ Released and used by some in the press in the immediate reports, it then ‘sank without trace’ soon after in an act of seeming self-censorship. The…
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A Dirty, Robust Messiah
An excellent thought for the day from the always-interesting Giles Fraser on the BBC this morning, discussing the essential dirty nature of the incarnation, rendering the sacred/profane divide fuzzy in the extreme. His Greenbelt talk on Why Rothko Is Bad For Your Health is also superb. Buy it on CD, or hassle them to fast-track…
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Emerging Church and The Hunch Engine
Article in Wired on an emerging software that combines hunches with mutations to take anything, from photo manipulation to postman route planning in new directions that have a individual touch. “Our hunches tend to be repetitive and predictable, while mutation can take us in novel directions” The parallels with new EC programmes are obvious. Keep…
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The Last Post…
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…is due. According to the Financial Times. “…which brings us to the spectre haunting the blogosphere – tedium. If the pornography of opinion doesn’t leave you longing for an eroticism of fact, the vast wasteland of verbiage produced by the relentless nature of blogging is the single greatest impediment to its seriousness as a medium”…