- 2015 is the year the old internet finally died
How the online world is changing.
- The Blue Zones Solution
How to live long through diet (no kale salad).
- Jacques-François-Xavier de Whyte – Assassin’s Creed Wiki
A distant historical relative appears in a recent videogame.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Links I found interesting for 08-08-2015
- E Pluribus Hugo vs Slates
Patrick May re-calculatees the 1984 Hugos; and finds that EPH works .
- What Greece Needs to Prosper
Some interesting numbers here.
- Mike Huckabee Is Wrong: Iran Isn’t Nazi Germany
Calibrating rhetoric with facts.
Links I found interesting for 07-08-2015
- Cameron’s renegotiation plans: The view from Warsaw
@AgataGostynska points out that it’s not easy.
- Hiroshima – the full text of John Hersey’s 1946 article
Read it.
- Forgotten Conflicts
How many had you heard of?
- Say goodbye to the weirdest border dispute in the world
A sad day for cartography fans!
- Majority in Northern Ireland want to stay in EU
Well, it’s a data point.
Thursday reading
Current
Watership Down, by Richard Adams (a chapter a week)
A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England, by Suzannah Lipscomb
The Tomorrow Windows, by Jonathan Morris
History, by Elsa Morante
Last books finished
Lord Valentine’s Castle, by Robert Silverberg
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, by James Shapiro
Divorcing Jack, by Colin Bateman
Building Confidence in Peace, by Nathalie Tocci
An Age of License: A Travelogue, by Lucy Knisley
Mission: Impractical, by David A. McIntee
Resolving the Cyprus Conflict: Negotiating History, by Michális Stavrou Michael
Next books
Selected Essays, by Virginia Woolf
The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lampiri
Mean Streets, by Terrance Dicks
Books acquired in last week
The Just City, by Jo Walton
The Twinkling of an Eye, by Brian Aldiss
Jocasta: Wife and Mother, by Brian Aldiss
The Complete Short Stories: the 1950s, by Brian Aldiss
Moon over Soho, by Ben Aaronovitch
Links I found interesting for 06-08-2015
- Belgian government phishing test goes off-track
Oops.
- Britain needs more slums « Adam Smith Institute
Er, no. Actually, make that: Hell, no!
- The Resource Curse (pdf)
Long Chatham House paper on green growth and extraction-based economies.
- I Wrote A Bot That Won Twitter Contests
But was it really worth it?
Links I found interesting for 05-08-2015
- Fake Windows 10 Upgrade Emails Hide Ransomware
In case it happens to you.
- British Ambassador’s farewell to Lebanon
Beautiful.
- Would Brexit leave the UK better placed to tackle the Calais crisis?
Er, no.
Links I found interesting for 04-08-2015
- Drinking Games
Manipulating Moldova through wine.
- Assyrian Christian woman shares story of captivity by Islamic State
As interviewed by @gajap.
- How many beers can you buy with the monthly minimum wage?
Belgium wins! Belgium wins!
A peculiar collection of books gains another entry
Bill Dunlop, Female Wits (1991 – thanks from publisher)
John Toland, eds Philip McGuinness and Richard Kearney, Christianity Not Mysterious: Text, Associated Works and Critical Essays (1998)
David Boothroyd, The Politico's Guide to the History of British Political Parties (2001)
G.K. Peatling, British Opinion and Irish Self-Government 1865-1925: From Unionism to Liberal Commonwealth (2001)
Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, Cyprus as Lighthouse of the East Mediterranean: Shaping Re-unification and EU Accession Together (2002)
Nancy Soderberg, The Superpower Myth (2005)
Marc Houben, International Crisis Management: The Approach of European States (2005)
Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue (2006)
Thammy Evans, Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide (2nd edn, 2007)
Nathalie Tocci, The EU and Conflict Resolution: Promoting Peace in the Backyard (2007)
Gordon Gillespie, The A to Z of the Northern Ireland Conflict (2008)
Ken MacLeod, The Restoration Game (2010)
Andrew Finlay, Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace (2010)
Ben Judah, Jana Kobzova and Nicu Popescu, Dealing with a Post-BRIC Russia (2011)
Nicu Popescu, EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts: Stealth Intervention (2011)
P. Kevin MacKeown, Early China Coast Meteorology: The Role of Hong Kong (2011)
Brian Eggins, History & Hope: The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (2015)
W.J. McCormack, Northman: John Hewitt, 1907-1987 (2015)
and now
Jo Walton, The Just City (2015)
Links I found interesting for 03-08-2015
- Anxiety takes its toll on the rejectionists
Cyprus latest.
- The Unified Puppy Theory
What did the Sad Puppies think they were doing? An answer.
- 10 myths about migrants debunked
Some common sense.
- How to Live Wisely
New York Times advice.
- Is It Time for Some Facts About Those Migrants?
Great stuff from @RobinLustig
July Books
Splintered Light: Tolkien's World, by Verlyn Flieger
The Prisoner, by Dave Rogers
Gulp, by Mary Roach
The King's Speech, by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
Fiction (non-sf): 4 (YTD 22)
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
The True Deceiver, by Tove Jansson
Ulysses, by James Joyce
The Sorrows of an American, by Siri Hustvedt
SF (non-Who): 3 (YTD 77)
City at the End of Time, by Greg Bear (did not finish, 100 pages only)
A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick
Kushiel's Mercy, by Jacqueline Carey
Doctor Who, etc: 6 (YTD 28)
Killing Ground, by Steve Lyons
Halflife, by Mark Michalowski
Ghost Devices, by Simon Bucher-Jones
Doctor Who and the Vortex Crystal by William H. Keith, Jr.
Doctor Who and the Rebel's Gamble by William H. Keith, Jr.
Doctor Who – The Drosten's Curse, by A.L. Kennedy
Comics : 1 (YTD 11)
Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot
~6,300 pages (YTD 43,700)
9/18 by women (YTD 48/165) – Flieger, Roach, Catton, Jansen, Hustvedt, Kennedy, Talbot/Charlesworth
0/18 by PoC (YTD 11/147)
Reread: 2/18 (Ulysses, A Scanner Darkly), YTD 14/165
Reading now:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, by James Shapiro
Lord Valentine's Castle, by Robert Silverberg
Divorcing Jack, by Colin Bateman
Coming soon (perhaps):
Building Confidence in Peace, by Erol Kaymak, Alexandros Lordos and Nathalie Tocci
A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England, by Suzannah Lipscomb
History, by Elsa Morante
Selected Essays, by Virginia Woolf
The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lampiri
Naamah's Kiss, by Jacqueline Carey
Transition, by Iain Banks
11/22/63, by Stephen King
Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories, by Michael Moorcock
The Redbreast, by Jo Nesbø
The Twenty-two Letters, by Clive King
And Another Thing…, by Eoin Colfer
Meditations on Middle Earth
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
The Wild Reel, by Paul Brandon
The Unlimited Dream Company, by J. G. Ballard
The Ancient Languages of Europe, by Roger D. Woodard
Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us: Or Why You Have No Idea How Your Mind Works, by Christopher Chabris
Girls in Love, by Jacqueline Wilson
Mission: Impractical, by David A. McIntee
The Tomorrow Windows, by Jonathan Morris
Mean Streets, by Terrance Dicks