Category: Resources
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One Day in History | “A Day of No Particular Significance”
History Matters, along with the National Trust and a bunch of other UK organizations have put together ‘One Day in History’. The idea is simple: on October 17th you log on to the History Matters Website and upload your ‘blog’ diary of that day. These mass entries will then be collated and kept as a…
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Backside Cache | Dirt and Computing
Great article in Wired at: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71763-0.html?tw=rss.index At first sight, a computer is a system that seems “clean.” Early mainframes were housed in dust-free rooms bathed in unvarying white light. Nobody ever got physically dirty handling a laptop. The computer-using proverb “garbage in, garbage out” is just a metaphor; nothing physical goes into a computer, and…
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Morning Rush | Art Therapy | Dirt Boundaries
On a school trip to the (excellent, and oft neglected) Museum of London a couple of months back I was struck in the foyer by an exhibition which included this work ‘Morning Rush’. Having a while to look through their shop after the tour – a compulsory part of any trip with kids, I can…
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Off to Greenbelt | Heretic’s Guide to Eternity
I’m off towards Greenbelt tomorrow, via a stop with some friends in Devon, so probably won’t be blogging. Before I go, I promised to post a review of Spencer Burke and Barry Taylor’s book ‘A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity‘. First, an apparent paradox in the book, which I think helps unlock its position quite well.…
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Two Links
Gareth Higgins has started blogging. Working at the front line of Northern Irish peace with Zero28, film critic, author, PhD and lecturer… This is going to be someone worth book-marking. CoComment is a great site I’ve started using, having seen Andrew Jones doing so. It allows you to track blog comments / conversations really easily…
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Soliton | The Gospel of Welcome
Just at LAX now on my way back from Solition. What with the security alerts in the UK, my flights home have been changed, cancelled and delayed… and changed again to suit me much better than the original plan. At one time I thought I’d have no hand baggage allowed, but they’ve relaxed that just…