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Monthly Archives: February 2005
the justified geek
Sometimes, all that fiddling with computers at home pays off extravagantly. My copy for this week’s wormseye got lost over the weekend. I am in New York; the house is deserted; I didn’t have a version on the laptop (because … Continue reading Continue reading
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not dead yet
I will be in New York on Monday (profiling Oliver Sacks at very short notice). Any readers there want to make themselves known? I have a lot of books to read before Tuesday morning, but it’s always nice to meet … Continue reading Continue reading
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Let the record show
That the first twenty one pages of today’s Daily Mail are devoted entirely to the great news. Even the Melanie Phillips attack on Tony Blair has Charles and Camilla in the headline. Continue reading
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totalitarian tidying.
So I was calling a friend to see if she knew any Chinese demographers, and she said, “I’m just riffling through my email, and I see that incomplete statistics show there were 200 executions in China — in the two … Continue reading Continue reading
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when eyeballs go “sproing!”
Can anyone think of an explanation for the fact, (via) that, when they are asked to identify the top two recipients of federal government spending, 49% of Americans list “Foreign Aid” as one of them? And, no, it’s not a … Continue reading Continue reading
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anecdotage
I’m fifty today. Below the fold is a fragment shored against my ruin. (warning. long; boring; also copyrighted) Continue reading
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Swedish amazon equivalent?
Is there any Swedish online bookshop that will ship its products outside Scandinavia? I can’t find one and I don’t know anywhere in this country that sells a wide range of Swedish books. As a side-note, IKEA, when it first … Continue reading Continue reading
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Through a glass blurrily
Where does the grease on spectacle lenses come from? When spectacles get dirty and smeared, they have an oily sheen if you look at the lenses side on. Breathing on them, then buffing with a cloth, as I used to … Continue reading Continue reading
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