What is Web 2.0
A discussion on O’Reilly.net.
Anthony Zacharzewski
Commedy fetival
The Paramount Comedy Festival website authors need to use a spell check. link
Rolling Stone on Congress
Rolling Stone magazine excoriates “the worst Congress ever”.
The birth of the iPod
Wired tells the story of how the iPod came about.
Travel notes: Reading
To Reading for a meeting. Stayed at the Royal County Hotel, an old-fashioned place in a central location. Friendly staff and nice rooms, but on lift.
Dinner on Sunday night at Santa Fe by the Thames. Chainy but nice American-Mexican place. Tonight ate at the fantastic Sweeney & Todd’s
The real battle of Hastings
940th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, and I’m in Battle for a huge re-enactment. It’s very spectacular, though of course the result is never in doubt. Even more spectacular, and a lot less organised, is the melee of kids with wooden swords charging around while their parents
Pofigism
An piece in this week’s New Republic, not available for free online,
talks about the large Russian community around Brighton Beach, in New
York state. There’s a fierce battle going on between two Russian-
speakers for the Democratic nomination (and hence the seat in November).
The Russian community,
Making a bad situation worse
The BBC reports on a foolish joke by a local councillor, who made some unwise remark about gay marriage. Unfortunately, in the interview, he just makes a bad situation worse:
“”I believe in the law of Moses. I’m not a religious fanatic. As long as they do it behind
Conkers
It’s that time of year again, when papers run stories about conkers being banned by town hall bureaucrats. The tale in Worthing, reported in today’s Argus, is a bit more unusual, however. Worthing BC are taking the conkers off the trees because they are having to pay thousands
At prayer no longer
A piece in this morning’s Birmingham Post contains an interesting factoid. Only twelve Tory conference visitors attended morning service at Bournemouth’s parish church. You couldn’t get away with that if you were a Republican!