Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Secrets To Winning Your Football Tipping Competition

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Against my better judgment, I entered a football tipping competition this year. I say against my better judgment, because over the years I ...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Graphic Novels That You Would Like If You Weren't Too Chicken To Read Them - 'The Authority' and 'Planetary'

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“We were the fucking Beatles,” said writer Warren Ellis of his twelve-issue run on ‘The Authority’ with penciller Bryan Hitch, inker Paul Ne...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

How Productive Was Andrew Gaze?

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Win Score is a metric developed by economist Dave Berri (and co-authors) to evaluate how productive NBA basketball players are. Essentiall...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Stuff White Australians Like

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Recently I have been reading the book version of ‘Stuff White People Like’ (which I was reminded that I could read for free online, but scre...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The 100 Greatest Novels Ever

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What are the 100 greatest novels ever written? (That’s novels, not plays or poems… sorry Milton and Shakespeare…) Following the criteria f...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Finger Points Outwards - No.22

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A research article that I wrote with Tom Bolton, entitled 'Earnings of employees who are reliant on minimum rates of pay' , has been...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

The Wooden Finger Year in Music: Part Three

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THE (IR)RELEVANCE OF MICHAEL JACKSON To me, the statements following Michael Jackson’s death of his impact upon pop music seemed a little ...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Wooden Finger Year in Music: Part Two

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THE ‘MARCONI PLAYS THE MAMBA’ MEMORIAL MOST CRINGE-WORTHY LINE OF 2009 David Guetta/Akon’s ‘Sexy Bitch’ was a track that made me shiver in...