Monthly Archives: October 2004

Ad placement

Posted on October 31, 2004 by acb

What does Google know about the “London Review of Books”:http://www.lrb.co.uk that we should? Continue reading →

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One elegant trick

Posted on October 28, 2004 by acb

When using “OOo:”:http://www.openoffice.org 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: bq. 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 … 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”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm 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”:http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/08/30/evpsych/index.html?pn=2] 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”:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?&rnd=1098394261180&has-player=true], and writing[1] 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”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1330350,00.html 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”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1320240,00.html of “Glenda Lee Slagge”:http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1331638,00.html was clearly written by a disciple, as these extracts show: bq.. TO ACHIEVE the title of First Lady of Fleet Street, which Lynda Lee-Potter was not alone in having bestowed upon her, a … 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: %(sane)”These LED-illuminated, battery-powered, motion triggered toilet seats are bad-ass”% he “writes”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/19/toilet_seats_with_le.html 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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