Letters Remain

Month: March 2009

  • Academic Earth

    Academic Earth is the latest addition to my growing collection of online lectures from leading universities around the world. The site currently includes lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale on topics ranging from Entrepreneurship to Law, and Economics to Psychology.

  • The Urban Paradox

    With all the benefits cities bring to their inhabitants there are also numerous drawbacks; drawbacks that could, if not accounted for and studied, spell the end of cities as we currently know them. That’s the view of Geoffrey Westā€”president of the Santa Fe Instituteā€”as he discusses what needs to be done to safeguard the future…

  • The Places We Live

    The Places We Live exhibits awe-inspiring photos of slums in combination with stories from the people who inhabit them. Well worth enduring the Flashtastic interface for. In 2008, for the first time in history, more people will live in cities than in rural areas. One-third of these urban dwellersā€”more than 1 billion peopleā€“live in slums.…

  • The Trough of No Value

    The trough of no value is the concept that most objects go through fluctuations in their real-world worth: the trough is that seemingly never-ending time between used/junk and antique/collectible. Unfortunately the majority of my possessions fall into this category, including, it appears,Ā those vintage Wharfedale speakers that I was looking for this past weekend (apparently I…

  • Year One in Review

    366 days, 616 posts and 15,144 spam comments later, I am happy and proud to announce that Lone Gunman is now one year old (founded on February 29th 2008, I suppose it’s not even that, is it?). LG has evolved into something completely different to what I had first envisaged and the whole experience of…