As the Olympics edge nearer, James Fallows keeps a worried eye on the smog:
I was joking when saying earlier that maybe the factories are running 30 hours a day, 10 days a week, to meet output targets before the expected mandatory pre-Olympic shutdown next month. Now I'm not so sure it's a joke... I have not seen the sun or anything resembling blue in days and days.
Much snickering in some quarters over his first post-primary commercial, which went on-air today. Too full of apple pie? It seems fine to me. Iain Martin likes it too.
The Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum does a spot of motoring in the UK. All those speed camera signs leave him confused, but he agrees that we have a better speed limit system. He probably didn't visit my neighbourhood where, for some reason, the narrow, twisting country lanes are fitted with 70 mph signs. No wonder we cyclists feel nervous.
"Are you sure?" he asked the reporter, looking baffled. The new mayor is either a master of the art of delegation or not on top of his job. Take your pick. As for his Today programme appearance, Times sketchwriter Ann Treneman sifts through the wreckage of a car crash. On the sunnier side of the street, Andrew Gimson has added an upbeat chapter to the new edition of his Boris biography, including a glimpse of the relationship with Dave:
Boris and Cameron are often described as friends, but this is highly misleading. It would be more accurate to say that they are on friendly terms, but have never spent, or wished to spend, much time with each other. As a well-placed observer said: "They have no history of friendship and Boris has never been part of Cameron's set. Boris...
In the New Republic, a disgruntled David Hajdu examines the delicate issue of the Internet and open-source remixing:
If this is legal, it is also extortionate and an act of terrible hypocrisy--a revocation of the promise of creative ownership that is drawing people to remixing, the promise that Radiohead has been eager to exploit, in large print, to sell its stems... For the moment, Yorke and his band have a message for fans loaded with GarageBand and an urge to own a part of Radiohead: Don't get any big ideas. They're not going to happen.
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