Linkblogging for 18/11/08
Sorry I’ve not posted much for a couple of weeks. I’ve had various bits of life-related bits to attend to, and some work stress (can’t talk about that publicly, but I will say “Jacques De Molay, thou art avenged!” as a very subtle hint…)
Anyway, got a comics post mostly written which will be up in the morning, and BFAW tomorrow night, but for now, here’s some links. And if I go a day without posting on here in future, please feel free to leave abusive comments calling me an idle tosser…
Alix at the People’s Republic Of Mortimer has a great post about the Tories’ cargo cult tax policies.
Over at The Independent, they seem to think that… women don’t have ideas… or something? Apparently if Richard Dawkins, Malcolm Gladwell and Christopher Hitchens write ‘big idea books’ (though what the big idea is for at least two of those I don’t know, frankly – Dawkins is a third-rate thinker at best and Hitchens has let alcohol and a forty-year-old grudge against Bill Clinton ruin a once-sharp mind) they’re being typically male, whereas if Naomi Klein or Lisa Jardine or whoever do, then they’re ‘outliers’. Piffle, inspired by the increasingly-reactionary Germaine Greer, and dangerous piffle at that – though the article is so badly written one can’t tell if the writer is arguing for or against the proposition; or if she is merely, in the American ‘journalism’ style, laying out a bunch of quotes from random people with no coherent thought as to a larger context or argument behind those quotes.
Is it me or is the Independent getting really, really sloppy in recent weeks? I only read it online, but the writing’s getting almost as bad as the Guardian, and they appear to have sacked all their sub-editing staff…
Pillock has a really good post on post-Crisis DC Comics, one of many things I want to write about myself, soon…
The Mindless Ones have a great post up on Edward Gorey
Fred Clark, having finished his several-year-long dissection of the first Left Behind book, now turns his eyes to the film version.
And another post from the People’s Republic of Mortimer to finish off, to remind everyone that the so-called ‘tax cut for the lowest paid’ that Brown was touting last week was actually the fudge he introduced to try to fix the problem he caused by *raising* taxes for the poor to cut them for the rich – and this ‘fix’ makes the poorest of the poor still worse off. Don’t let him get away with it.
Linkblogging for 20/09/09
Most of these are from a while ago, as I’m still ploughing through a huge backlog of Stuff To Read…
Mark Steel thinks that bankers should bail themselves out. Quite right too.
Jon Morris, Marc Singer and Jog all have better reviews of All-Star Superman 12 than mine.
Pillock talks about reading and synaesthesia and other good stuff.
Go here if you’re USian to see how much your taxes would fall in an Obama presidency, despite McCain’s claims that Obama wants to raise everyone’s taxes…
Jog also has a very thoughtful review of The Boys which pretty much sums up my thoughts on it.
Fred Clark finally finishes his four-year-plus look at the first volume of Left Behind – only another ten or so books to go…
And a list of ‘things I like‘ on a powerpop blog I read, almost all of which are things I like as well.
Linkblogging for 09/09/08
Not much here today – I’m still working through a backlog of feeds from my computer breaking:
Jennie Rigg writes briefly about the differences between being Liberal and Left and whether you can be both. I’m planning my own response to this in a day or two, so this is mostly for reference.
Chris Bird posts Forty reasons he will always love comics in pictorial form.
Fred Clark writes about Bearing false witness.
Big Finish have their first UNIT story available for free download – no idea if it’s any good or not, but probably worth a try.
And Andrew Rilstone writes about being sportsmanlike while somehow managing to avoid quoting Sport (The Odd Boy) by the Bonzo Dog Band – a temptation I wouldn’t have been able to resist.
Linkblogging for 20/07/08 and hello
I’ve decided recently that I need to get a ‘proper blog’, rather than my separate LJ, comics blog and music blog. Part of the reason I’m doing this is that I think posting on multiple topics will allow me to post more regularly – splitting the posts between those various places has meant the traffic to each one has been fairly low, which in turn means that I’m not getting comments, which means I have less incentive to post, which means I post less, which means…
So I’ve got myself a wordpress blog, my own spiffy domain, and I’m going to get *something* posted every day, even if it’s only linkblogging, to give people a reason to check in every day.
For the first few days, this place is going to look a little shabby – Lots of things are set to the defaults, and the blogroll’s a mess – people who should be there aren’t, and some links are there a few times. Bear with me.
I’ll be writing a proper post tonight, but for now here’s some interesting links:
Scientific Blogging on Apoptosis:
This is actually very close to what a lot of people have been saying must happen for years – the redox cycle important in cancer and autoimmune diseases? Who’dathunkit?
A Short Interview With… Corn Mo:
Matt Whitby interviews the glam rock accordionist.
Pistol Packing Pacifist:
Fred Clark continues his look at The World’s Worst Books, this time analysing how the American ultra-right fundamentalists have come to the conclusion that peace is a bad thing.
Britain’s Next War Zone? Nigeria:
Jim Jay looks at the disgraceful way British foreign policy is impacting on Nigeria.
Making – Or Not Making – A Splash:
Scipio talks about splash pages.
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