A brief miscellany

By proseandpoet

June 14, 2011

On realising that I felt a bit guilty for not posting more, I decided to plan what to blog. All kinds of ideas, essays, even videos that I could create and share with the literally tens of you who read this come to mind, but mainly at times when I cannot get them to fruition (sermons, seminars, driving) so now I have time and opportunity, I have a mind as blank as an, er, something.

So I’m turning to my social bookmarks which over the last few years I’ve tagged as “to blog about”. So, for your perusal, here are some things which I’ve come across.

Tim Harford (always a source of great posts and interesting links) summarises the difference between anecdote and evidence, and how they can often get confused - from 2009. http://timharford.com/2009/06/how-social-science-ends-up-as-urban-myth/

From the BBC in 2008, a slideshow of workspaces that make me feel a bit neat: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7774965.stm.

And from this month, a video about bikes, cars, trucks and pedestrians at one New York intersection. With a great soundtrack

(from http://www.core77.com/blog/social_design/bikes_cars_and_pedestrians_at_28th_park_ave_a_never-ending_cycle_of_near_misses_19541.asp)