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Monthly Archives: February 2006
London made much more interesting
I’m off to meet my producer at Squealer Slurs, via Methanol Theta and Arcadian Noodle. A wonderful map found via Quite unconnected, but possibly also fun, the Dennett review has also been published. Continue reading
Posted in Travel notes
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Ice Hockey!
“Bach! Fuck, yeah yeah yeah” as the philosopher said. At 12.55 GMT, the BBC is showing live coverage of the Olympic ice hockey final. Even better, it stars Sweden and Finland. In each country, they will be preparing in their … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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totally wrecked
Sorry. I don’t know what this is, but all of the individual archives are broken. This may go on for some time — the last time I had to ask MT for support it took a week to get an … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Housekeeping
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An end to comment horror
As an experiment, I have tried to change the whole site to run under cgiwrap, whcih is meant to work better on Pair. We shall see if it does. The theory is that all those 500 errors, and the intermittent … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Housekeeping
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A moment of reverie
This didn’t happen of course; which is a shame, because if it did, it would be a wonderful story which could then be put up on a blog under some tragic, if faintly pretentious title, like "a rare moment in … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Literature
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What a wimp we have in Jesus!
Compared to his representative in the Anglican Church of Nigeria. Archbishop Peter Akinola has long been the idol of American rightwingers for his brutal and bigoted attitude towards gays, liberals, and other tools of Satan. But his statement on the … Continue reading Continue reading
Education x 150,000
From Times. I know I bang on about this, but it is quite impossible to understand the attraction of faith schools without realising how dreadful the existing system is. Although progress has been made, Sir Cyril Taylor, chairman of the … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in British politics
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God gossip fragments
An excruciating experience last night: I had been to a rather grand lecture in one of the City churches, followed by a reception in a livery company’s hall. Really nice Californian wine, gravlax in the nibbles, and I felt I … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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High windows, high crosses
If anyone doubted that football really is the religion of the British male, there’s a story in the Guardian today that rather proves the point: last Saturday, a Manchester United player fell awkwardly in the course of an away game … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in God
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The last Telegraph leader
I think this stands as the most comprehensive surrender document signed by any ideology since 1989. America should avoid direct, large-scale military action in the Middle East, relying instead on surrogates and operating behind the scenes to turn Muslim opinion … Continue reading Continue reading