Monthly Archives: July 2004

Lost in an old map

Thanks to Danny O’Brien, I have lost a whole morning looking at ancient maps. This 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

Brad Choate’s Textile plugin for MT does something that the real thing can’t: definition lists. dl. this:should be although:there is no mention of it in the real textile comes out as this should be although there is no mention of … Continue reading Continue reading

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Avro Manhattan

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

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!

Just time to note that Robin McKie’s profile of Richard Dawkins in yesterday’s Observer was one of the most frustrating cuttings jobs I have ever read. What really teed me off was this “He has maintained his fusillades of anti-cleric … Continue reading Continue reading

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Even code gods

forget to renew their domains — look at Mitch Kapor’s 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 know you have deserved salvation, and … Continue reading Continue reading

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For travellers in August

Jonny Boatfield 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. It’s at the … Continue reading Continue reading

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Tuglinge

I wonder, would David Blunkett let Tyndale 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 English: whatever … Continue reading Continue reading

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Queen Susan of the Albanians

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

Just for the record, I went up last week to Middlesbrough to talk to the Vardy Foundation about their creationist 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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