For posterity…

Norm ‘Normblog’ Geras is running a posterity collection poll.

The story is that, civilization approaching its possible doom (not really, but it’s the premise of the poll), the normblog readership has been assigned the task of assembling for posterity a representative collection of the Arts of Humankind, to be preserved in a sealed container so that some future beings of intelligence, discernment and taste can discover it and be impressed. That’s you and me, and also you. What we all have to do is to nominate under the following 12 headings those artists whose work we would like to see going into the sealed container.

Well, here we go. Continue reading “For posterity…”

Amnesty, Star Trek and China

This made me laugh – it came up on the irrepressible.info box from Amnesty on my blog.


If you click on the image, you’ll see the backstory – the BBC website is censored in China – but the idea of someone not wanting Star Trek fans to know that there was memorabilia to buy suggests a conspiracy on behalf of Comic Book Guy.

xD.

LSE SU Comms Officer Blog

My friend Ali Dewji, Communication Sabbatical Officer at the LSE Students’ Union, has launched a blog at sucomms.blogspot.com. This is an excellent idea. It allows more contact with him, lets him show his reasoning for things and, if and when the Beaver Online starts up properly and assuming they link to the blog, may increase student information and involvement.

xD.

Erik Ringmar

This just came to my attention by way of Facebook.

http://ringmar.net/forgethefootnotes/

Worth looking at. It would appear that the LSE are trying to censor Erik Ringmar, a professor of mine, for his speech to prospective students, in part by demanding he take down his blog.

Will post more when I know what’s going on…

xD.