Monthly Archives: September 2005

The best idea since Flickr

Posted on September 10, 2005 by acb

Librarything is a combination lookup tool for bibliographic information, a way to tag and catalogue your books collection, and a social service, where you can browse other people’s libraries. Type in a few identifying words from a book’s spine, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Net stories | 10 Comments

Smartass– Nerd help wanted

Posted on September 9, 2005 by acb

If anyone knows the code that will produce rss feeds of comment threads, will they make themselves known to the management? I really would like people to be able to subscribe to these, if they want to. Continue reading →

Posted in nördig | 4 Comments

With a preface by whom?

Posted on September 7, 2005 by acb

Is there anyone who can cast light on this entry from the Library of Congress catalogue? Author: Dawkins, Richard, 1941- Title: The selfish gene / Richard Dawkins ; with a pref. by Anaïs nin. Published: New York : Oxford University … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | 2 Comments

How much was Bush to Blame? (2)

Posted on September 7, 2005 by acb

via John Naughton, I see that there’s a very lucid piece by Geoffrey Hodgson on OpenDemocracy.net arguing, as I did a couple of entries down, that we should blame the system for the failure of government, not just the Bushies. Continue reading →

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Good advice

Posted on September 5, 2005 by acb

No: better than that. The best advice you could ever give your children. (from Making light). Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | 1 Comment

Benny Morris

Posted on September 4, 2005 by acb

Oliver asked me to post the Benny Morris profile. It’s here, as a PDF. Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism | 2 Comments

an experiment in democracy

Posted on September 4, 2005 by acb

I had written an entirely different wormseye, about choosing Muslim leaders. this this bubbled up, and I’m not sure whether to use it instead. Do any of you have opinions? (serendipitously, I find on Brad deLong an illustration of my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism | 8 Comments

Petrol prices revisited

Posted on September 2, 2005 by acb

There is a photo up on Snopes.com which has been submitted as an urban legend. It shows a petrol station in Georgia charging $6.00 for a gallon of gas — the person who sent it in thought it must have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Travel notes | 2 Comments

Not a bad list

Posted on September 1, 2005 by acb

Here are the profiles that a quick prod round the archives found, not really in chronological order. Eva Hoffman Mary Midgley Stewart Brand Tam Dalyell Brian Aldiss Steve Rose Evelyn Fox Keller Bob Conquest Elizabeth Jane Howard Redmond O’Hanlon John … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism | 4 Comments

Progress

Posted on September 1, 2005 by acb

One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth. Perhaps the most frightening thing about this statistic is that the NYT felt obliged to end the sentence “… an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century” … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Science without worms | 4 Comments