Monthly Archives: November 2004

cult oddness

I seem to be chairing a debate on cults at the ICA this Sunday, with Jon Ronson and Eileen Barker. Perhaps, by Sunday, I will seem to have thought of something to say. Continue reading

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Slashdot readers

A selection of slashdot readers’ part-time jobs: Throughout my years as a Unix admin, I have been a working blacksmith and woodworker in exotic woods. Recently I have branched into selling BDSM gear and sex toys, but that’s beside the … Continue reading Continue reading

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strange hacker logins

Looking through the firewall logs on my backup machine, I discover that someone from a computer in the State administration of Utah (168.178.120.104) has been trying to break in here. That makes a change from the usual Bulgarians and untraceable … Continue reading Continue reading

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oh dear

“Kimberley Quinn” is a name free of sin: “Kimberley Fortier” was naughtier. Continue reading

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more with the wacky

Dr Baber complains that I am always passing comments on those wacky Americans.1 Modestly veiled in her comments is a pointer to a really interesting essay about the different ways in which the two Americas think of government. She thinks … Continue reading Continue reading

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English manners

An elderly friend came round with her dachshund this morning for coffee and reminiscence with my mother-in-law. I took refuge in the sitting room, leaving the door to my study open; the dachshund, which didn’t seem to like me, trotted … Continue reading Continue reading

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heavily armed Christians

via boingboing comes this site, not, so far as I can tell, a parody. the best of military technology is not readily available to the citizen militiaman, in spite of the fact that the very purpose of the Second Amendment … Continue reading Continue reading

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Human interface

A freind of mine has an adolescent son with Aspberger’s; something I don’t want to have to imagine. The child said very little until he was three, though he spent a lot of time listening to tapes. Then, one day … Continue reading Continue reading

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There is a God

Heard a wonderful story the other day from my friend Eve, who used to be a very superior bureaucrat in the Church of England. One of the more media-friendly bishops, let’s call him Bill, grew very drunk one day — … Continue reading Continue reading

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But there are also bishops

Up to Glasgow yesterday, for my second failed shortlisting of the year: the next pope programme was up for a Continue reading

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