Stirling Castle, 10 March 2013

We took the kids to Stirling Castle yesterday, and got snowed on while we were there. In Edinburgh today it's still all white outside—the latest snow of the season since we moved here.

11 March 2013 · Journal

How Now, Brown Cow?

Humanity’s deep future.

How long will it last?

How to save wet books.

How Britain got a taste for horsemeat.

How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” ruled the Internet.

How the Harlem Shake went global.

Folklore and the vernacular Web.

The impossibility of auto-censoring chat.

The dangers of random permutations.

The dangers of graphical tricksiness.

Douglas Rushkoff: Why I’m quitting Facebook.

No comment.

Call Me a Hole: best mashup since “A Stroke of Genie-us”.

You Can’t Be My Girl.

200 great Brazilian albums.

Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein.

Charlie Brooker on “Be Right Back” and Black Mirror.

It’s Brian Butterfield’s Sports Restaurant and Collector Cards!

7 March 2013 · Weblog

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