Far-called
The British Government are closing a number of embassies and consulates to save money.
Anthony Zacharzewski
Get your signature iPods here.
Get ’em while they’re hot.
Sloppy
Tom Wolfe wins the Literary Review’s Bad Sex award.
Some of my best friends are incurable romantics
My friend Daryl Elfield is in the news.
Will Davies at Harvard
Will Davies writes about a discussion he ran at the current Internet and Society conference. Top line – pure capitalism and pure democracy can’t mix, even if compromise is messy.
Welcome to the new journalism
So, here I am, blogging about Christian Crumlish, who’s blogging about mitten, who’s blogging about Cathy Siepp, who’s (allegedly) blogged (apparently) attacking mitten.
Clear?
Viva el Presidente!
President Bush>/a> in full banana-republic dress (from Atrios).
Activist attorney seeks governorship
Elliot Spitzer, the corporation-bashing attorney general of New York, is standing for election as governor in 2006. The New York Times reports. Also, Mr Spitzer has a blog.
Russian liberals - come to sunny Kiev!
An article in the New Republic yesterday describes the “orange envy” of Russian liberals, seeing their Ukrainian counterparts protesting on the streets.
New horizons
25% of workers want to quit their jobs in 2005. Which makes me think, what about the other 75%? Link