I’ve met more people, who thought that Sargent had already got the Nobel Prize, than those who thought he hadn’t. They must be rather confused now.
Tajima-tei
A very good and authentic Japanese restaurant on Leather Lane. Tempura to die for; set dinners are very good value.
Flatland
A brilliant, geometrical, Lamarckian, social satire of Victorian England written in 1884 by a schoolmaster.
Wonderful piece of software
I use Lyx and BibDesk for all academic articles, but I was asked to create a reference management system for a team of ten economist running Windows and Office. I came across Mendeley on Wikipedia. I road-tested it quite intensely against rivals Qiqqa and Zotero and apart from a few minor glitches and necessary tweaks, it’s a winner.
Derek Parfit matters
I was planning to read “On What Matters”, then I read this article. It will be my next book.
299,798,454 metres per second
Subir Sarkar, head of particle theory at Oxford University, says:
If we do not have causality, we are buggered.
As good as the book.
Behavioural politics
Brilliant Bagehot’s stablemate Blighty Blog.
“9/11” by Gedeon and Jules Naudet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqvaEB3Yv4
Sokurov has just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his “Faust”.