Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Self-styled “rogue sociologist” Sudhir Venkatesh’s latest book, Gang Leader for a Day, tells the story of his relationship with a gang in Chicago’s infamous Robert Taylor housing project. Reading like a mashup of The Wire, a Pimms O’Clock ad, and Freakonomics, his account is by turns hilarious, fascinating and terrifying.
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Tags: British Cities, Bystander, C Average, Chicago Housing Authority, Clever Ruse, Dodgy, Gang Leader, Gang Members, Grateful Dead, Housing Project, Look At Life, Mashup, Neighbourhoods, O Clock, Pet Psychologist, Pimms, Robert Taylor, Sociologist, Venkatesh, World Of Corruption
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Blessed was now-melted Sheffield superclub Republic’s boozy cheapo student remix of their world famous Gatecrasher night. With Matt Hardwick in the main room and 99p vodka Red Bulls it was a Monday night staple for the valley boys in the late 90s and early 00s. I always seemed to end up in the top room throwing some shapes to DJ Jeff House’s oldskool set, and this week music blog Dilated Choonz took me back to those happy times with some fantastic piano anthems.
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Tags: Anthems, Ascension, Boozy, Cheapo, Dj Jeff, Few Days, Flashback, Happy Times, Liberation, Matt Hardwick, Monday Night, Prodigy, Red Bulls, Shapes, Sheffield, Staple, Superclub, Valley Boys, Vodka, White Label Mix
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Earth Hour – EPIC FAIL
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Earth Hour went global this week with cities around the world (including Chicago) turning off their lights for one hour in order to “clearly demonstrate in participating cities, the connection between energy usage and climate change”. Sadly one enterprising blogger (via the Freakonomics blog) has found that the reported drop in energy usage during the earth hour was preceeded by a large power spike as people prepared for the event. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
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Tags: Carbon Emissions, Cities Around The World, Climate Change, Company Score, Electricity Generation, Energy Consumption, Energy Savings, Energy Usage, Freakonomics Blog, Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, Management Settings, Marginal Increase, Power Consumption, Power Management, Power Spike, Road To Hell, Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, Scoring System, System Tray, Windows Power
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