Follow @gavinthomson Gavin Thomson
 01.28.2012 

good things on your actual internet

  • Brief letter from John Steinbeck to his son, on hearing that the lad is in love. Really beautiful and really valuable.
  • Social Media Week Glasgow Crowdsourced Scottish Poetry Audiobook. probably the best title for anything ever. so many words in there that I enjoy very much.
  • Zizek explains the power of the negation of a negative, through movie references that involve coffee.
  • Letter from Surrey Police detailing News International journalists illegally interfering with the investigation of the murder of Milly Dowler. We’re perhaps all saturated with disgust at this particular organisation. I include this because, of all that’s been released since the “phone hacking scandal” (corruption scandal) hit the headlines, this is the most frightening, the most nauseating.
  • Database of lobbying in the UK. useful stuff.
  • And this amazingness. Interactive Hans Rosling mega data set, changeable axes, crucial criteria of the last 2 centuries. Watch how the world changed. Time-sapping data porn.