Blogshots

I've recently discovered the joy of Google Reader. All the posts of my favourite blogs piped into the one easy-to-read page. Brilliant!

Here are three posts that I've enjoyed reading this week.

Maverecon: "Too many cooks in Obama's economics kitchen"

Willem Buiter unravels the "Byzantine complexity of the White House economic policy-making machine".

Still, the US intelligence community, with 17 (!) federal intelligence outfits, beats the economists hands down. Check out the IC's funky homepage - "The IC - Working to Protect Freedom".

Jeff Vail (at The Oil Drum): "A resilient suburbia? (3)

A further post from Jeff on whether suburbs have a future in a post-Peak Oil world:

"it isn't realistic at present to think that we'll be able to put enough solar panels on our roofs to charge the batteries on the twin electric-Escalades sitting in our garage for the daily commute to work. I increasingly believe that suburbia can be resilient and sustainable, but not as a mere "Star-Trek" version of the present."

Antilibrary: "Nazi kitsch"

AE puts in a plug for World War Two films that are "loud and unapologetically crude such as The Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare than an overwrought piece of Oscar bait."

Hear hear! For the record, my three favourite WW2 films are 'Guns of Navarone', 'Sands of Iwo Jima', and 'Von Ryan's Express'. No Oscar bait here.

Comments

[Matthew Bartlett]

Yeah, Google Reader is a wonder, isn't it. Addictive. It's neat how you can easily generate your own filtered reading feed, like this: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/00082552171742653560

Thanks for your blog. I'm enjoying it.

[Kotare]

Hi Matthew - thanks for your kind comment. Good to see another Wellington blogger in action.