Author: Lloyd Morgan
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Let’s Do the Whitest Thing Imaginable
I think I’ve found my favourite eCard website/service: someecards This one in particular made me laugh, and also reminded me of the comedy blog of yore, Stuff White People Like.
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Purging Book Clutter
Last week I moved house. During the move I took stock of my belongings in my ongoing battle with clutter and discovered that more than half of my boxes contained books… and that’s after I gave a box or two of books to a good home a month before! The emotional attachement that is made…
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Logo Design and Examples
I really appreciate good design, and this list of 50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration truly are inspiring. According to David Airey, there are four critical elements to great logo design, and these match all of them. It must be describable It must be memorable It must be effective without colour It must be scalable…
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Male and Female Privilege
Following on from yesterday’s post on white privilege, here are two further lists on male and female privilege: The Male Privilege Checklist I will never be expected to change my name upon marriage or questioned if I don’t change my name. If I have children but do not provide primary care for them, my masculinity…
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Legal Cases That Changed Britain
The Times has now concluded its series on The (Legal) Cases That Changed Britain: 1785 – 2006. DPP v Ray July 27, 1973 This case settled an important principle of law applicable to people caught legging it out of restaurants without paying. It has been applied countless times since. After eating a meal in the…
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White Privilege
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, is an article by Peggy McIntosh on the invisible privileges of being white. I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my…
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Media Ownership and Mergers
Neatorama on media ownership – The Big Six of US media (via Link Banana). Last year I linked to a similar chart, from 1991, showing the media ownership of The Big Ten multinational conglomerates. Mother Jones has an appealing visual representation of 25 years of media mergers and how the biggest media conglomerates in the…
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Top 50 Productivity Blogs
The Top 50 Productivity Blogs is one of those lists that I love to hate. It’s so useful and contains a wealth of extraordinary resources, but at the same time will temporarily ruin my productivity as I scour through the archives of the mentioned blogs looking for said resources. Getting Things Done (e.g. Zen Habits)…
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Common Errors in English
Mixed-up, mangled expressions; foreign-language faux pas; confused and confusing terms; commonly mispronounced words – they’re all explained in Common Errors in English by Paul Brians. The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged…
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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
William Deresiewicz on the foibles of the Ivy League elite: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers. […] With respect to class, these schools are largely—indeed increasingly—homogeneous. Visit any elite campus in our great nation and you can thrill to the heartwarming spectacle of the children…