Yearly Archives: 2003

a long strange trip

The first time I saw Bob Weir play was around 29 years ago, at the Alexandra Palace, though I was, God knows, in no condition to trust the evidence of my eyes at the time or for about eight hours … Continue reading Continue reading

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a glimpse of the future

If you want to know where the debate on altruism, group seleciton, and sociobiology is going for the next decasdee, these papers would be a good place to start. Continue reading

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The, like, great chain of being

If you can understand this, it’s too late to save you. Continue reading

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Righteous preaching

Things my friend the vicar would say if he had only thought of them: “You cannot wave your unread bible and scare me. I know its larger story and I will tear you a new biblical asshole.” From the rather … Continue reading Continue reading

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richer than anyone in history

One of the minor wonders of the Empire is that a rich man in America can not only muy more things than the richest men of the past could dream of; he can buy servants that were once the prerogative … Continue reading Continue reading

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He’s on our side

Just a throwaway link from tnh but this is a lovely piece of work, and shows what libraries can do on the web if they are so inclined. It makes a good illustrated primer to one thesis in Dr Longley’s … Continue reading Continue reading

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Technical writing

When I am on my own, less often otherwise, I eat kippers. This morning, I finally mastered the technique, from Jane Grigson, of eating them without any bones at all. Her instructions were illustrated with diagrams. I were setting a … Continue reading Continue reading

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A sense of proportion

There’s a (good and interesting) story on Cnet about a man who makes the best guitar strings in the world, and switched to Linux after being busted by the BSA. It wasn’t the money he minded; it was the subsequent … Continue reading Continue reading

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Lossily compressed article

Someone just rang me up from a newspaper that shall be nameless, asking for a piece on the sobig worm. I said, which is true, that I am too busy today. It is also true that I have no ideas … Continue reading Continue reading

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another publication

one of the reasons I started this blog was that I was doing very little journalism at the time, being wrapped up like laocöon in worms, tiny, horny, hermaphroditic worms. So I needed to keep up my chops on short … Continue reading Continue reading

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