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Outside the European Central Bank 2011-10-21 I had to go to the dentist this morning, which took me right past the European Central Bank. There are still a large number of “Occupy Frankfurt” people camping out, despite the near-freezing temperature over night, protesting the mess that we are in. I have just . . . → Read More: Broken Economies There is a useful tool to check which amazon store has the cheapest price for books, including international postage. (Unfortunately it won’t check egg poacher prices). Check out CheapRiver.com. They do a browser plug-in which will allow you to check worldwide and find the cheapest location to order from. The differences are sometimes . . . → Read More: Useful tool to check amazon book prices Alice in Wonderland on the iPad The iPad seems to have quite a potential to shake up the market for eBooks. (Click the pic to view). On almost the same subject – we saw the Alice film in 3D at the weekend – and thoroughly enjoyed it! (Via Daring . . . → Read More: Alice on the iPad What makes supermarket employees work harder? Why do rats drink more tonic water, when it becomes more expensive? (Rats hate tonic water, they don’t like the taste of the quinine in it), and why is your boss overpaid? It’s all down to the logic of economics, according to Tim Harford, or as he . . . → Read More: Economic logic Next time we drive past Maastricht, we are going to take a look at Selexyz Dominicanen. There’s an article in the Guardian architecture section about this book shop in a converted church, and it looks spectacular. The architects were Merkx + Girod, and the photo above is from their . . . → Read More: Selexyz Dominicanen A British publisher, Self Made Hero, has brought out a series of Shakespeare’s plays as manga comics with abridged texts in the original Shakesperian English. A second publisher, Classic Comics, has gone a step further, producing full colour comics in different versions. You can get them as abridged versions which use the original . . . → Read More: Manga Shakespeare Paul Baker has produced an aLPHaBeT 26 font which can be used if you agree with Bradbury Thompson’s idea that children are hindered in learning to read because they have to learn different symbols for capital and lower-case letters. On the other hand, a recent study in the UK points to support at . . . → Read More: aLPHaBeT 26 Ruth and I like listening to Ben and Marina’s Spanish podcasts in Notes from Spain, so I decided to buy the book he published last year about how he came to live in Spain. It seems to have become a collecter’s item – we looked on Amazon.co.uk: It’s listed on the German site at . . . → Read More: Invest in “Errant in Iberia” We walked into Brighton’s Churchill Square yesterday and I spotted a book by Banksy in one of the bookshops. So despite having received far too many Christmas presents this year, we are going back with one more book now! If you haven’t run across Banksy before, you clearly haven’t being paying attention here. . . . → Read More: … now with 10% more crap I’ve just read When smoke ran like water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis. Its a real eye-opener about how industry distorts and manipulates evidence about the effects of pollution in an effort to keep their liabilities as low as possible and profits as high as possible. . . . → Read More: When smoke ran like water |
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