There’s a fascinating article in Granta about the web habits of highly effective people. Being a literary tome, these people are all journalists, writers and bloggers, which suits me fine.
Novelist A.L. Kennedy says: “I don’t blog or Facebook. If I want to write, I’d rather do it to some kind of definable end.”
Wise words, no [...]

(link via Mark Jones on Filtered Media).

Summer is here early in London. There are green leaves and flowers all over town, we’ve enjoyed beautiful sunshine for days on end, everyone is out enjoying picnics in the park, the pubs are doing a brisk trade in cider and Pimms (one of the quintessentially English signs of summer).
It’s actually unseasonally hot - it’s [...]

Probably the best movie I’ve seen so far this year is Persepolis. It’s based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi and it’s an autobiographical account of growing up in Tehran and Vienna during the Iranian Revolution.
The movie basically animates Satrapi’s drawings, so it has a very distinctive style and it’s mostly in black and [...]