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Monthly Archives: December 2006
A question for cultured readers
OK, I just finished off a piece for the New Statesman on the uses of heresy with the following sentence: “You say ‘homoousios’ and I say ‘homoiousios’ but we are each trying to get the other to say ‘uncle’.” I … Continue reading Continue reading
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More evidence of Sun’s inefficiency
John Naughton writes, apropos the latest version of Adobe Acrobat, which makes commenting easier, that “Those of us who work in the Open Source world know that one of the factors which makes companies wary of moving to Open Office … Continue reading Continue reading
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Learning from Baker
Most of the coverage I have seen of the Iraq Study Group’s report has concentrated on its recommendations. This is a waste of time. The whole point about the present disaster is that there is no solution. Defeat is now … Continue reading Continue reading
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Words fail me
But there is a photograph in the New Scientist of a bat with a tongue twice the length of its body. Go look at it, that words may fail you too. Daughter, rushing off to school: “Guess what’s happening today? … Continue reading Continue reading
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Blogs and journalism (2)
I have been meaning for years to put an archive of old New Statesman columns online. Now I find that the paper has done it, which proves that idleness pays. But, dammitall, what a genius I had in those days! Continue reading
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Blogs and journalism (1)
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a piece up about the tendency of media elites to conspire against the general public. It’s full of penetrating good sense, as you would expect, but it misses a couple of points which seem obvious from … Continue reading Continue reading
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Optimism wanted
There is a wonderful essay by Scott Atran up on John Brockman’s website, in which he eviscerates Professor Dawkins and Sam Harris for their way with evidence. I find it fascinating that among the brilliant scientists and philosophers at the … Continue reading Continue reading
Half an aspirin and a pint of gin
For reasons I don’t entirely understand, my mother-in-law has had a gossip website in Australia named after her. As if any member of her family would gossip! She is in fact a godmother of the founder and proprietor; though “Crikey” … Continue reading Continue reading
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