Monthly Archives: December 2009

She is pretty…

…and she is mine:

The Daily Mail, journalism at its slightest

For those of you lucky enough to have lived thus far without bumping into it, the UK has a ‘news’paper called The Daily Mail. I say ‘news’ rather than news because it has several facets, none of which are particularly concerned with news. Online it’s primarily interested in which reality TV tramp has slept with [...]

Empirically Speaking

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo. This is a terrific video showing the rise and fall of the Western European empires. Among other things it’s a great reminder of just how recent some of these territories were surrendered (a process that isn’t complete to this day). Well worth a few minutes of [...]