grass is greener 2

A network engineer would say this was a situation of "same bandwidth, lower latency" and then probably launch into a story about h...

the grass is always greener

In a world where $100,000 buys you a not-amazing painting by a developing artist, there are many. That same $100,000 can be used directly, a...

Spoiler

A reader has worked out the puzzles in Your Name Here. Cheat sheet here .

...of the return

Woke up yesterday at 4.30am. Decided to go to the gym. I got a new bike the other day off Craigslist, which I've been keeping inside to ...

return of the return

A reader has explained what goes on when one clicks to leave a secure page. His view was that buyers of Your Name Here should be directed s...

sabbatical, interrupted

There is one fascinating counterfactual to emerge from Prezza . It concerns the incident when he punched an egg-throwing protester in Wales ...

White Read

Interview of Rachel Whiteread by John Tusa on BBC3 from a while back, here . But basically do you like getting involved with the physical si...

tough love

Arnold Zwicky tells off errant commenters on Language Log: [in the Comments section] you will find the instruction Be relevant. As bloggers...

against chocofeminism

'There has always been resistance to feminism - the backlash that Susan Faludi chronicled in her 1991 book of the same name. But there i...

socialist sci fi

Via Nasty Brutalist and Short , China Mieville's list of 50 fantasy & science fiction works that socialists should read. includes Em...

Mugabe only teasing, Home Office reveals

Attempts by Gordon Brown to use a meeting of G8 leaders this week to campaign for tougher action against Zimbabwe are in danger of being und...

McMafia

It’s usually assumed that organised crime is a network of unqualified evil: murderous, recklessly greedy, the enemy of all human values and ...

don't mention fried ants

(More from T W Körner, The Pleasures of Counting - a passage which makes the end of the book, on which a post currently waits in the drafts ...

Springer sale

Springer Verlag is having a sale on mathematics books through the end of July, offering "many essential mathematical titles" for h...

3.04 am

At 1 am it was cool and fresh, the perfect time to go the gym. I am about 90% sure that my bike has been stolen (if I were to find I had le...

Voter registration Berlin

US Voter Registration at the Bookshop This Friday in honor of 4th of July If you are an American and have not yet registered to vote or hav...

slightly mollified

I've just been to Julien Kwan, whose Apple outlet in Grosßbeerenstraße is moving on to pastures new on Thursday. Mission: to upgrade the...