Links for Monday 22 October 2012
- The rapidly increasing ideology of the US Republican Party
- A chart showing the changing political positions of US political parties since 1789. I'd love to see something similar for the UK. (via Kottke)
They hate competition
This article about the privatisation of the UK’s electricity by James Meek in the London Review of Books from 13 September 2012 (I’m still catching up) is well worth a read.
In Writing on 15 Oct 2012
8 reasons you should give talks | Final Bullet
On the negative side… while it's great for the speaker, for all the reasons you cite, the idea that everyone should “get up there” makes me wince slightly. If I've paid to hear people speak I want to hear people who are really, really good at what they do, or really know a lot more than most people about their subject. From an audience-member's point of view I don't want lots of people going to speak at things just because they want to. This is why I rarely speak at things - because I assume there are plenty of people who know more than me about almost everything I know something about.
A comment on another site on 21 Sep 2012
Contribute to the Cool Tools Library
Over at Cool Tools, they’re running a competition to find the most useful books about particular activities. From an earlier post:
At Septivium on 11 Feb 2012
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A new Pepys walk: Greenwich
Glyn Thomas has previously worked on two walks which have been posted here, around the City of London, and Westminster. He has now updated both of these and added a third walk, around that other centre of Pepys’ diary life, Greenwich.
At Pepys' Diary Site News on 18 Jul 2012