A performance of John Cage’s 4'33" at the Barbican -
(If you’re viewing somewhere where Flash is disabled, just stare at the space for 4 minutes 33 seconds. Oh, add time for appropriate pauses between movements.)
- File under things I find ridiculously cool in a geeky way: a company that installs hidden passageways - sliding bookcases, rotating fireplaces, the works.
- The dangers of over-relying on spell-checking: lawyer finds the Latin phrase sua sponte got changed into “sea sponge”.
- Flatulence deodoriser.
- The 50 most-linked blogs in the world and how they relate.
- An interview with an unlikely pair of interviewees: Nellie McKay and Eartha Kitt. Kitt: “People like [Stephen] Sondheim, the Gershwins and Cole Porter always wrote songs that gave a feeling that the writer has lived. These songs are very difficult to find.” (Incidentally, McKay’s “There You Are In Me”, from the unreleased Pretty Little Head, is stuck in my mind.)