Yearly Archives: 2004

I’m never going to write anything

Posted on June 23, 2004 by acb

I don’t know whether it is depression or a sinus infection. I don’t know if it is both. but for the last fortnight I have been almost incredibly stupid, as if I were thinking through treacle, and looking at the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I’m never going to write these

Posted on June 23, 2004 by acb

I keep a scrap list in Ecco of things I really ought to blog about, or stick into a wormseye, or something. It has got out of control. So here are some things which provoked thought, without the thoughts I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Exterminate the brutes

Posted on June 22, 2004 by acb

I’m writing up a big piece for G2 about creationists and their attempts, helped by the government, to get a foothold in the British educational system. What makes it possible is the appalling state of many comprehensive schools: the one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Decadence

Posted on June 22, 2004 by acb

I just want to record that in Waitrose this afternoon I saw a roll of embossed bog roll: sorry “Bloomsbury & tate luxury bathroom tissue enriched with aloe vera” A snip at £1.89. Continue reading →

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the second time as tragedy …

Posted on June 20, 2004 by acb

Marx had the order wrong. The first time round it’s funny. Here is Bill O’Reilly, one of the most popular talk show hosts in the Murdoch empire, on the radio on Thursday this week. Because look … when 2 percent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The OED rewritten in limericks

Posted on June 18, 2004 by acb

I stole this from languagehat. It is the most awe-inspiring project I have ever seen on the web. Continue reading →

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theory of religion

Posted on June 18, 2004 by acb

There are two main theories of religion deriving from modern, computerised science — ie the sort that can only be done with computers in the background, either to model, or to run the equipment. [the influence of programming as an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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succulent stuff

Posted on June 16, 2004 by acb

I have just been sent the catalogue from Imprint Academic, the tiny company that publishes the Journal of Consciousness Studies and it’s full of good things. Specifically, I want this and this and this. They will do to be going … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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email experiment overload

Posted on June 13, 2004 by acb

Earlier this week I decided to give Opera’s mail client a proper go because I was sick of the horrible editor in the Bat, and sick, too, of maintaining a list of about 90 filters for different correspondents which all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I just want to see

Posted on June 10, 2004 by acb

Tony Blair watch these pictures, with Cherie beside him: from a report of Seymour Hersh speaking at the University of Chicago: He said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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