Monthly Archives: October 2004

Ad placement

Posted on October 31, 2004 by acb

What does Google know about the London Review of Books that we should? Continue reading →

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One elegant trick

Posted on October 28, 2004 by acb

When using OOo: the language of a passsage is an attribute of the character formating. This seems silly until you have multilingual dictionaries installed. Then the words marked as Swedish are checked against a Swedish dictionary and Swedish alternatives are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Hominid variety (2)

Posted on October 28, 2004 by acb

The greatest Telegraph obituary of this millennium: Nerina returned to her mother, by now living in a house near Horsham with her sixth husband, Noel Sparrow. Just before her mother’s death in 1958, Nerina decided to take up ballroom dancing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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brain the size of a grapefruit

Posted on October 27, 2004 by acb

I just want to say that the hominid remains discovered in Indonesia, of a wholly unknown species, extinct no more than 12,000 years ago, tool-making and, if it were to get to the island, at least descended from a boat-building … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Moderation in all things

Posted on October 25, 2004 by acb

The Evolutionary Psychology list used to be one of the most interesting places on the Internet. It was thoughtful, disciplined, multi-disciplined, and wide-ranging. There was seldom time to read all of it, but it was necessary to skim if you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A Wonder-working power

Posted on October 22, 2004 by acb

Hunter Thompson is back from the grave, and writing1 something fun to read for the first time in — what? — fifteen years. Still, all his years lying in a vodka-soaked crypt, drifts of cocaine crunching everytime he twitched in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Not to be obsessional

Posted on October 22, 2004 by acb

or anything, but one way of understanding the current state of schism in the Anglican Communion is to observe that all the biggest losers were Americans. It’s obvious that the northern, liberal part of Ecusa got chastised, told not to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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miauw!

Posted on October 21, 2004 by acb

The Times obit of Glenda Lee Slagge was clearly written by a disciple, as these extracts show: TO ACHIEVE the title of First Lady of Fleet Street, which Lynda Lee-Potter was not alone in having bestowed upon her, a woman … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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good arse

Posted on October 21, 2004 by acb

I believe that Cory Doctorow lives in London now. But he doesn’t seem to have picked up much English: “These LED-illuminated, battery-powered, motion triggered toilet seats are bad-ass” he writes today. Continue reading →

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Five minutes’ hate

Posted on October 20, 2004 by acb

Guardian readers in this country obviously get a kick out of watching Richard Dawkins, Antonia Fraser, and so on pleasuring themselves about the barbarity of Republicans. We have had a further kick from the Usenet-quality abuse which greeted this from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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