Little Atoms top stories (and some you may have missed)
From Douglas Adams to Ai Weiwei, our guide to the most read and most interesting posts on Little Atoms this week
1. Watch Douglas Adams tell The Greatest Story Ever Told
We loved this video of the Hitchhiker’s Guide author. looking natty in leather jacket and tie, telling David Letterman about that time, on the train, with the cookies (biscuits).
2.Johann Hari apologises for mailicious editing of journalists’ web pages
“I did two things that were really awful things to do; one was when I interviewed people sometimes I would use material they had spoken elsewhere or written down and acted as if it had been said directly to me. And also on Wikipedia sometimes I would edit other people’s entries under a pseudonym and I was horrible and nasty about some of them. Those are both awful things to do,” the former Independent columnist told Little Atoms. Hari wrote personal apologies to the Observer’s Nick Cohen and Private Eye’s Francis Wheen, which Little Atoms was happy to deliver.
3. The man who built Big Sur
A wonderful essay by Dominic Lutyens on Californian eco-architecture pioneer Mickey Muennig, complete with stunning pictures
4. Everything that’s wrong with housing and how to fix it
Everyone knows Britains property market is a mess. Dawn Foster explains what we can do about it.
5. Peers launch backdoor attempt to make rejected UK Snooper’s Charter law
Little Atoms was first with the news that a group of Lords are attempting to sneak draconian surveillance powers into Britain’s new counter-terror bill.
And what you may have missed...
Mark E. Smith and me
Andrew Mueller on the journalistic rite of passage that is attempting to interview the Fall singer.
Working with the witchdoctors
Maruxa Ruiz del Árbol travels to the Ecuadorian jungle to witness the meeting of medicine and magic.
Bricks and mortality
Why is Ai Weiwei playing with LEGO? Stephen Armstrong find out.
Making work into an artform
Caroline Christie on the strange story of the Artist Placement Group.
