Posts by Martin Lindberg
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I'm interested to know where you get your cultural stuff -- not just music, but books, ebooks, comics, video etc -- and in y'all sharing with the group who you are in those places.
The A.V. Club is a pretty good site for finding out about all those things and I tend to check in there fairly often.
BTW, that Beatles re-dub is teh awesome!
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Hard News: The Great Unwinding, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yalda Hakim, the Dateline reporter has, meanwhile, alerted her Twitter followers to this screed, which contains this bizarre passage:
Way too many scare-quotes in that screed. Apparently Jon Stephenson is a "New Zealander", a "reporter" and a "special correspondent".
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Donator is a word.
I think it's an abbreviation for detonator. Perfectly apt in this case.
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Hard News: Killing Volume, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Ok, so I was exaggerating for effect. (Having just got a Kindle I think I'll be buying real books for a while yet).
Likewise. Happy to buy and read on my Kindle, but then what do you do with the book? I can't give the book away or lend it to someone else to read. Neither am I convinced that the ebook format-wars are over. Sure, I can de-DRM and format-shift using Calibre, but that's still not all that straight-forward.
Besides, I spend nearly all my day in front of a screen one way or another. Picking up a physical book is an escape from that.
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Hard News: Killing Volume, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
- the only people who buy/read print magazines are those to old and/or stupid to work the internets
I guess I don't buy as many magazines as I used to but this just silly. I don't believe that a computer is the end-all for media consumption. Would you apply the same reasoning to (physical) books as well?
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Perhaps I was too harsh
Not at all.
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Speaker: How's that three strikes thing…, in reply to Danielle,
I feel like there should be an internet law about television discussions.
There is, of course, this old story from The Onion: Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn’t Own A Television
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television,” Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds ‘N’ Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment’s wall-mounted TV. “I don’t even own one."
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I agree that religious instruction has no place in secular schools. However, we had religious studies as a compulsory subject. Note that that's a secular study of religion. I really can't see that you can make any sense of what's going on in this world without an understanding of religions. School-wise this fell into the same block of studies as history, civics and geography. I've noticed from my kids' schooling here that it does not appear to be part of the curriculum and I think that's a shame.
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to andin,
can’t help thinking this attachment of religion to culture is a bit like the ID crowd trying to move in to main stream science
Nah more like a collective thumb sucking.
Could you two be any more condescending if you actually tried?