Category Archives: Net stories

Does anyone know where one can complain to get entirely fraudulent phone numbers shut down? A friend of my wife’s, a genuine hero, the Russian dissident Mikhail Kukobaka, has been hit by a transparent scam letter telling him he has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The FWB is currently doing a Latin A level with an imaginative teacher, who has her pupil1 doing Latin Scrabble. Googling for a tile set led me to the University of Toronto, and from there to Liberation Philology, a small … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was writing a quickie for Ariel, the BBC in house magazine, about the new Google archive news service and thought I would, you know, check how well it worked. So I typed in “Ampthill Claimant” as an example of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There are currently on Cafepress 2,030 different slogans, verbal and visual, commemorating the expulsion of Pluto from the register of planets. These are available on 35,100 products. The page I am looking at (thanks, Jeremy) claims to rank them by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A CNN anchorwoman had an unfortunate accident during President Bush’s visit to New Orleans at the anniversary of hurricane Katrina. She nipped out for a pee with her wireless mike still on and the sounds were broadcast live in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The library also provides access to the complete Naxos music library. Everyone knows that Naxos recordings are not the best; they are also, in some sense, already available on eMusic. But these are full length streaming recordings of an extraordinary … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have written before about Essex Libraries’ group access to all sorts of online databases — the OED, the Grove Dictionary of Music, Who’s Who and a curiously rebranded version of Lexis-Nexis. But what I hadn’t realised until this moment … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As part of moving the web site over, I had to move all of the mail accounts associated with it, and owrk out how the new place does its spam filtering. So the Darwinwars.com domain was exposed, for about 12 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

At least, I think this is a windup. David Chalmers, incensed that Dan Dennett is saying in interviews that he has admitted defeat in their almost interminable argument about qualia, claims that Dennett, “in private email” now embraces Cartesian dualism. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have been playing with the Encyclopaedia Britannica which is available online to the ratepayers of Essex, along with a phenomenal number of other goodies, such as the OED, much of the Lexis-Nexis newspaper database, the DNB, and the Grove … Continue reading → Continue reading →