“The Browning Version” by Terence Rattigan
A wonderful Radio 4 production in the author’s centenary year. A film based on Rattigan’s amazing “The Deep Blue Sea”, directed by Terence Davies and starring Rachel Weisz, is something to look forward to.

Day after tomorrow
Amazing BBC footage.
80,000 Hours
I really don’t know what to think about this. Shame, I can’t just pop round to my local GP (general philosopher).
Old Jews Telling Jokes
“Oh, my, don’t you have a vase?”
Gay Rights in Russia
And yet, under the seriousness of fomenting hatred and inscribing discrimination into the legal code, there has also been a streak of irony and humor in the response to this development. It’s especially fitting in a country where public displays of machismo can often bleed into the homoerotic. How, for example, will this law affect the annual celebration of Paratrooper Day, when, all over the country, thousands of former paratroopers get drunk, strip to their skivvies, and frolic in city fountains, splashing and wetly embracing? Is that homosexual propaganda? And, as a Russian friend pointed out to me, what about the ruling tandem? When Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin go bike riding together, when they have intimate public breakfasts, when they are forced to deny that they’re married, when they play badminton, when they ski and drink cocoa and fish, often in matching outfits and in the total absence of women, what about that?
Our utility functions have become rather crowded
NP=P in general
Elizabeth Baldwin mentioned a paper that showed that trying to rationalise general equilibrium is computationally equivalent to NP=P. I think this is the presentation for this paper. Theory and practice is a difficult marriage at times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCt-_yYLpo
The Ides of March directed by George Clooney, starring Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood and Clooney. Second Gosling film in a week and a second excellent Gosling film in a week.




