London photo of the day: the 1,200-meter security-line crawl
Olympics rings welcoming travelers at St. Pancras international rail station.
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London photo of the day: this way to the Olympics
New signposts for new visitors…
London photo of the day: when bus drivers strike!
Nomally this display at the bus stop tells you when the next buses are due to arrive. Today, bus drivers were on strike over extra pay during the Olympics…
Fast Girls (trailer)
A film about women doing something other than trying to find husbands.
I think we need to get “The War on Art” trending as an idea (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
London photo of the day: under construction
It seems like the entirety of London is under construction…
wtf: can’t sleep, London Olympics mascots will kill me
According to the Guardian, these candy-colored fiends are based on a short story by children’s author Michael Morpurgo that tells how they were fashioned from droplets of the steel used to build the Olympic stadium. They’re called Wenlock and Mandeville, though I suspect even their mother can’t remember which one is which. From the Guardian: … more…
watch it: the 2/27/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Obviously, the Olympics with its international competition and accompanying bragging rights is a kind of ritualized war. Here’s an idea: Could we perhaps actually replace war with the Olympics alone? I mean, if two countries have a beef over, say, natural resources or territorial rights, does it really make any less sense to leave the … more…
Television Under the Swastika (review)
The Nazi Channel When you think “early television,” you think Ernie Kovacs and The Twilight Zone and Edward R. Murrow and I Love Lucy and quiz scandals and Rockefeller Center and the NBC peacock and doctors endorsing cigarettes. Turns out, though, that the 1950s were not the beginning of TV as a mass medium: that … more…
Chariots of Fire movie review: keeping the faith
Chariots of Fire may be veddy British, veddy 1920s — Gilbert and Sullivan, straw bowlers, cricket, school ties — but its story is as timeless as the Olympics themselves. This is quite possibly the most lyrical, most spiritual sports movie ever made.
