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Monthly Archives: March 2006
Incest and journalism
About three weeks ago, I was asked (along with others) to contribute questions and suggestions for Alan Rusbridger’s interview with Rowan Williams. This morning I was talking to Paul Handley, who is to interview Rusbridger for the Church Times. Do … Continue reading Continue reading
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online transciption service
Could this (found through John Naughton) be an actually useful Web 2.0 app? I can’t see the use, if you have learned to read and write, of private podcasting, which is the main selling point — essentially, this service is … Continue reading Continue reading
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Wednesday random letter
I’ve just thought of this: sort your music alphabetically by the first letter of the artist. Now choose one letter to take to your desert island. Without much thought, I vote, from my collection, for “R” Rachmaninov, Sergei Randolph, Robert … Continue reading Continue reading
Rural excitements
Supper with Michael Ruse on Monday evening, at which I did not shine, since I had a cold whose unpleasantness, fortunately, was almost entirely internal. Got back about quarter to midnight; spent the next day in bed, reading variously To … Continue reading Continue reading
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Louise and the venomous snails
This is wonderful! Our learned commentator has finally got her snails on air. These are carnivorous beasties which live on coral reefs. Now, if you’re a snail, there is not much hope of running your prey down, or even following … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Science without worms
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The Onion and the neocon
OK — here are two quotes. One is from the Onion this week, and the other is from Charles Krauthammer’s column in today’s Washington Post. The hard thing is to decide which is which. Vote in the comments, please. People … Continue reading Continue reading
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Mac advice needed
Dear lazyweb, (may I call you lazy?) When I hook my mother’s imac up to a broadband connection next week what kind of security measures should I take? I assume there is a built-in firewall in OSX, which will be … Continue reading Continue reading
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Rowan, PZ, creationism
Very interesting piece of decontextualisation over at pharyngula. PZ picked up on a Register piece claiming that ABC “put the smackdown” on creationism. This was indeed the lead that the rather desperate Guardian put on the news story of their … Continue reading Continue reading
All downhill since Hume
I was brought up to suppose that Western philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato — not that this led me to learn enough Greek to read him. But Hume had the taste to write in English; and … Continue reading Continue reading