Month: October 2007

Greg Proops presents a BBC review of Kerouac’s influential 1957 book, with interviews with the survivors. (The 127 foot continuous roll manuscript was real, auctioned recently, but being the product of the single benzedrine trip is apocryphal, apparently – several edits too before publication, already ten years old when first pubished. Interesting that Jack was a misunderstood US patriot despite close association with Ginsberg and Burroughs before the book, and King of the Beats afterwards during the peace, love and revolution of the 60’s. Drove him to drink and death. What’s so funny ’bout …)

Plenty more TEDTalks here.

Including the delicious Erin McKean. Next time someone quotes a dictionary definition at me as part of an argument, I will be pointing them at this one.

And given that I’ve recently reported on reading “Breaking The Spell”, here is a link to Dan Dennett speaking on dangerous memes – ideas to die for. Just a fluke 😉  and on religions as natural phenomena.

And lots more; E.O.Wilson, Steven Pinker – and Eddi Reader sings too.

This is from 2005 but a good excuse to update the link to TED.

RTFM

Think I’ve seen this before, but picked-up this link from Anecdote.

…. well,  to fill the turbine hall anyway ?

A minor variation on the previous Zen-Minimalist known as Moonlight, with upper-case capitalisation restored, and with the header, footer and extensive side-bar links restored.

Phew !

Ooops sorry folks, I seem to have an error with my template – lost most of my header and side-bar information. Unfortunately I’m on my travels, so it will be next weekend before I can fix.