Kester Brewin

Tag: Culture

  • Giggs Gets 700

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    I just had to take a quick break from paternal matters to give a heads up to a truly amazing event. I doubt you’ll read this over at Emerging Chelski or ProtestScousers, but today Ryan Giggs makes his 700th appearance for Manchester United. He made his full debut – check this out – 16 years…

  • Wireless Crucifix | Transmitting Now…

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    Great tip via the Moot site – this cheeky electronic crucifix, which transmits the Lord’s Prayer in ASCII at 916Mhz to all around. The blurb on the site (affilitated to the wonderfully imagined Interactive Televangelist Program – part of the Faith-Based Electonics Group) is pitched beautifully: Many people affix crucifixes and other religious iconography to…

  • The Trouble with Black Boys | Where is Stage 4 Pentecostalism?

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    Tragically, last night a 3rd boy was shot dead in South London, the latest victim of a possibly-connected spate of black on black youth killings. The police have responded by saying they are going to have armed patrols on the streets now. Like that’s going to work. Two of the boys were shot in their…

  • Abstinent? Want to be Filmed About it? | Channel 4 Doc

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    A researcher from Channel 4 (in the UK) has contacted me (I know not why!) wondering if I could ‘pass on any names of Christians in their 20s and 30s who are eloquent, attractive, hip, modern and can present arguments for abstinence in an appealing and convincing way.’ If only I knew people like that!…

  • The Coffee Pot and The Webcam: Necessity as the Mother of Invention

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    As a footnote to a great article about the history of our love for gadgets, the story of how the webcam came to be is told in today’s Independent: "In 1991 the webcam is born as the computer-science department of Cambridge University installs a video camera showing the filter coffee machine in the library’s Trojan…

  • Art as Pork Belly | The Gift and the End of ‘The Original’

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    Jonny has been posting some great stuff on The Gift. And tonight on Front Row – BBC Radio 4’s flagship arts programme – there was a great piece about the inflated price of art. One expert made it clear that the people buying Pollocks for $140 million, and Warhols for tens of millions have one…