Monthly Archives: July 2004

Lost in an old map

Posted on July 31, 2004 by acb

Thanks to “Danny O’Brien,”:http://www.oblomovka.com I have lost a whole morning looking at “ancient maps. This”:http://www.davidrumsey.com/ is a truly fantastic site, though regrettably biased towards the USA. If you download the Java viewer, you can examine and save maps from most … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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nerds only

Posted on July 27, 2004 by acb

“Brad Choate’s Textile plugin”:http://bradchoate.com/mt/docs/mtmanual_textile2.html for MT does something that “the real thing”:http://textism.com/tools/textile/index.html can’t: definition lists. == dl. this:should be although:there is no mention of it in the real textile == comes out as dl(sane). this:should be although:there is no mention … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Avro Manhattan

Posted on July 27, 2004 by acb

I try to resist the temptation of taking the piss out of the _Independent’s_ religious coverage. But the long John Walsh interview with Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor contains some really horrendous examples of ignorance and prejudice on the part of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Where the money went

Posted on July 26, 2004 by acb

This was the wormseye I wrote off the back of various comments on an earlier post. Thanks to Quinn and Billmon for facts and ideas. If there was one thing which everyone knows, it is that Americans have grown richer … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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harrumph!

Posted on July 26, 2004 by acb

Just time to note that Robin McKie’s “profile of Richard Dawkins”:http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1268687,00.html in yesterday’s _Observer_ was one of the most frustrating cuttings jobs I have ever read. What really teed me off was this %(loony)”He has maintained his fusillades of anti-cleric … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Even code gods

Posted on July 26, 2004 by acb

forget to renew their domains — look at “Mitch Kapor’s(Should be the open source application foundation)”:www.osafoundation.org Chandler project. Whois knows nothing of osafoundation.org this morning, either. I’m sorry. I know you have been a good person all your life. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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For travellers in August

Posted on July 24, 2004 by acb

“Jonny Boatfield(designed by the FWB)”:http://www.jonnyboatfield.com has a show coming up in Cambridge in mid-August: portraits of people in care homes around here. He sat and talked to them until he had their life stories. Then he drew what he saw. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Tuglinge

Posted on July 24, 2004 by acb

I wonder, would David Blunkett let “Tyndale(weird fundie stuff)”:http://www.williamtyndale.com/0welcomewilliamtyndale.htm in to England today? Henry VIII certainly didn’t, and had him burnt at the stake (after a merciful strangling) in 1536. I’m not at all sure that Tyndale qualifies as speaking … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Queen Susan of the Albanians

Posted on July 22, 2004 by acb

I bet you’re all so sunk in republican depravity that you didn’t even know Albania — like Narnia — had a Queen Susan. You should read the _Daily Telegraph_ more. Queen Susan was an Australian drover’s daughter, who pitched up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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creationism and schools

Posted on July 21, 2004 by acb

Just for the record, I went up last week to Middlesbrough to talk to the Vardy Foundation about their “creationist”:http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/liars/layfield.html tendencies. I spent nearly two hours talking to the headmaster, Nigel McQuoid, who is, I think, a full-on young earth … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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