February 2012
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intercourse with biscuits: The revenge of the... →
Ms Huffington was in Montreal to launch the French-language version of HuffPo this week. Her English speech to a predominantly Francophone audience at the CORIM (Montreal Council on Foreign Relations) luncheon wasn’t free. Tickets started at 75$. You could say audience members were paying for the food and the room but you’d be only partly right. Ms Huffington routinely charges to speak...
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In Praise of the Flâneur
I am keenly aware of the irony of posting a link to an article about the downside of frictionless sharing on a massive social media sharing site, but this struck a chord.
It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something...
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““When I started in film I was taught that you had to have a character arc...”
– Finally! I’m so tired of rote-writing and the critics who in insist on these arcs.
Read the whole article at The Guardian
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FLUXBLOG 2002 SURVEY MIX →
MAJOR MARVELOUSNESS.
Congratulations on 10 years, which hardly seem possible but have been consistently superior.
perpetua:
I am celebrating the 10th anniversary of Fluxblog with a series of survey mixes for each year the site has existed. First up: 2002! 140 songs on 8 discs, with music from Missy Elliot, Kylie Minogue, Wilco, Spoon, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, Cam’ron, The Kills, The Rapture,...