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Yearly Archives: 2002
it never rains
She fed a widower swan which approached us very slowly up the narrow stream. The apple and willow trees that overhang the stream would often hid the body of the swan in its journey, so we could only see the reflection float slowly towards us, upside down.
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When Linux met Likud
You know the bombadier beetle? I just (god forgive me) stumbled through Slashdot onto the mental equivalent: a brain containing two forms of repulsive bigotry which, when they meet, Continue reading
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shame averted
Remeber when the Melissa virus swept the world.? I was writing a column for the New Statesman then, and it was hard to disguise the humiliation I felt when I didn’t get a copy. But it’s OK. The first Bugbear … Continue reading Continue reading
Roll ’em Pete
I passed this one on to Charles Nevin at the Sindie. I wonder if it will make it into print; I wonder if it will even make it through the firewall. But it fills me with a warm and floaty … Continue reading Continue reading
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drink from the firehose
of purest frothing righteousness. Here’s a taste: Continue reading
news values
Two retired MPs turn out to have had an affair in the 1980s. A still active politician (and MP) turns out to have ordered the murder of ten people in the 1970s. Which of these stories is news? Continue reading
all the stuff
That I have been fumbling to say about the warhards is here Continue reading
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Satanan
Perkele! as my old Finnish workmate in the sawmill used to say. I found this almost perfectly incredible story while spending a happy sunday blog-rolling. It came through Teresa Hayden Nielsen, who I used to see around the Well. It … Continue reading Continue reading
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note from an old story
you know a piece of work is well started when you can see just how and in what ways it’s bad Continue reading
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The march in London
I was there, with wife and daughter; so were a lot of other people: the police reckon 150,000 and this is credible. Estimates of 400,000 from the organisers are not. They are simply plucked out of the air to match … Continue reading Continue reading
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