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Monthly Archives: March 2003
the view from Israel
or — suck on that, Ms Short: “Blair’s motivations are no less cynical than Bush’s. While European unity has been torn over the Iraqi campaign, there is strong consensus on the continent for the need to stop the vicious cycle … Continue reading Continue reading
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A social trend
This winter London is full of men called Ian who think they’re editing the New Yorker. In December, Ian Katz launched the Guardian’s page of little essays, Short Cuts. “Write as if you were doing something for Talk of the … Continue reading Continue reading
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I love these guys
Columbia Univesity Press have just sent me the cover of the American edition, and it’s lovely. Much better than the horrid English one. Continue reading
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a regrettable accident
Now suppose it had been an Iraqi bulldozer. Continue reading
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spineless American journalism
Sometimes I wonder, in numbed astonishment, how anyone is supposed to believe the stuff that comes out of the Bush White House. It had never occurred to me that there was a practical answer to this questioon. Here is part … Continue reading Continue reading
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night thoughts
It may not be very grown up of me, or anything, but almost every night for the last six months, I have lain awake for a while at about 3 or 4 am worrying about the war and what will … Continue reading Continue reading
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Google tip
sometimes even the densest Mark Pilgrim post erupts into comprehensibility: I recommend searching for keywords plus site:.ru to weed out all the legitimate sites Continue reading
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he’s got it bad
Somewhere in Denmark is a man who has gone insane this winter. I have had my mouse pointer chased across web pages by all sorts of things, but never before by grayling swimming through the air. Continue reading
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might as well giggle
After she posted some Paxman/Portillo slash, I asked TNH why no one wrote this kind of thing about American politicians. So she went off to find some. Mostly, she failed, but hers was a truly honourable failure, as this report … Continue reading Continue reading
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feedback
I just had a very nice note from Mark Humphrys, who writes We talked back in 1997 about my X-rated Turing Test program: just today I have discovered your nice comments in The Darwin Wars: “one of the funniest experiments … Continue reading Continue reading
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