Kester Brewin

Let There Be (Solid State) Light “I hope the award of this prize will help people to understand that this invention makes it possible to improve quality of life for many millions of people. This is not just a source of light that makes enormous energy savings possible, it is also an innovation that can [...]

From Malanda, via Barry Taylor Pray this resolution is passed soon. And is respected more than some of the others passed in the region over the past few years. Technorati Tags: Democracy, Israel, Justice, Lebanon, United Nations

As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a novel for the past few months, playing with themes, among others, of the links between identity and consumption. One of the books I’ve picked up to feed the furnace has been Thorstein Veblen’s 1899 satire Conspicuous Consumption (an excerpt from his longer work The [...]

…is due. According to the Financial Times. “…which brings us to the spectre haunting the blogosphere – tedium. If the pornography of opinion doesn’t leave you longing for an eroticism of fact, the vast wasteland of verbiage produced by the relentless nature of blogging is the single greatest impediment to its seriousness as a medium” [...]

I recently posted a piece taking up Mayor of London Ken Livingstone’s advice to only flush when really necessary. Thanks to Jon who’s just mail me this piece from The Guardian. It’s pretty shocking. All that lovely coffee you drink? The rice we eat? The water required to produce these goods is astronomical. As a [...]

Just spent the weekend with Si and Gareth over in Northern Ireland. Good to see Pete Rollins too (his book is going to go ballistic). They also had the guys over from The Bridge in Ventura for a few days, and it was excellent to spend time hanging out, doing some Guinness, and doing the [...]

“Some people are sure that the world would be a better place without religion. I am not persuaded, because I cannot yet characterise anything that could replace it in the hearts of most human beings. (Perhaps we should try to eliminate music while we’re at it. It inflames the passions and seduces many young people [...]

This is doubtless old news for those Stateside, but Good Night and Good Luck has just been released here, and I have to say, I was very impressed. As my wife and I left the cinema many people were, like us, asking “so what did you make of that then?” A film that has no [...]

So asks Damnflanderz with his usual perception, responding to the post on Grizzly Man. Thoughts? I’d say there’s some truth. But perhaps the need to create is the need to be saved? Do we create to sanctify, or create to be sanctified? Or is sanctification not part of it? “Where there is no gift, there [...]

This short sermon clip from Dick Lucas, vicar of St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, just has to be listened to to be believed; had me in stitches and disbelief in equal measure. As Ian said, if he’d made this cock-up, he’d have to leave the job! (For those aware of the high standing of this most respected [...]