Tangents

The New York Times have for some time had some pretty good blogs and quite a selection, such as Errol Morris‘s (which seemed like a series of really good essays rather than rattled off blog postings), and Freakonomics.

They are now straight linking to other people’s content at the Ideas blog. Basically like an old style blog they’re pointing you to the good stuff. The link economy is bedding in at the Grey Lady.

I’d love to see the Irish Times editors do something similar. What does Madam’s eyes scan as she sips her tea and stops thinking of new ways to fill August’s silly season pages I wonder. Do you think she reads xkcd?

I suppose it’s not that surprising, but Wallace and Gromit are modelling on behalf od Harvey Nics. Nice idea, pity I can’t afford an Alexander McQueen suit. I wonder who Topshop could get to model, Fireman Sam?

Via the creative review blog.

Nice Alexander McQueen suit there Wallace

Last night at 9pm I sat on my bed and opened the first page of Man In The Dark, I put it down nearly three hours and two cups of tea later. A quick enough read so I thought I’d throw a quick review together.

I’ve read quite a few of Paul Auster’s books by now, though not his last two books, Travels in the Sciptorium and the Brooklyn Follies. So by point of comparison I have in the past really enjoyed Moon Palace,  his New York Trilogy and the more recent Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions. Man in the Dark probably won’t be sitting quite so high in my estimation . Read the rest of this entry »