February 2012
15 posts
Cory Doctorow's paints a dystopian Google future →
The Stasi put everything about you in a file. Whether they meant to or not, what Google did is no different.
Slightly alarmist, yet slightly worrying all the same…
Eagle Owl at 1,000 frames per second →
Wouldn’t want to be a small mammal wandering in the vicinity…
Made Better in Japan →
The Japanese are perfecting many quintessentially Western things, like food, drinks and clothes…
“I think these are Spanish napkins,” Gonzalo, my Bilbao-born companion, says in disbelief. It’s almost too ridiculous to think that anyone would import such a shoddy implement from halfway around the world. But the owner of this restaurant tracked down these servietas,...
"Lin-sanity" makes the FT →
Mr Lin, 23, has gone from obscurity to the world’s most-watched basketball star in under a week. His story – an unwanted player who shines when given a chance – has the right mix of adversity and success to captivate the US, but it poses a problem for the media in basketball-mad China.
In any case he’s making me watch the NBA again…
Gilthead
This is a gilt-head bream (notice the gold-coloured stripe next to the eyes), or daurade in French. My local Morrisons had piles of them at half price, so I suspect people are put off by the fact it’s an entire fish. In fact it’s already scaled and gutted, and all you need to do is put it under the grill… As the Wikipedia article says:
The gilt-head bream is generally...
WatchEveryone was out today after last night’s snowfall, never seen so many people on Primrose Hill outside New Year’s Eve…
