Yearly Archives: 2007

The RA Summer Exhibition

Posted on August 18, 2007 by acb

Went into town yesterday to see the RA summer exhibition: there is an entire wall of David Hockney, quite shockingly bad. Other bad things include a set of three small sculptures showing Jesus crucified on a wooden aeroplane instead of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I hate software (rollup post)

Posted on August 18, 2007 by acb

I was trying to install the Flickr plugin for MT and got a message about being out of disk space. It turns out that in two months, 220 MB of spam had silted up in the inbox where I kept … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A bunch of stuff

Posted on August 18, 2007 by acb

I have fiddled a little with the front page, after Tim Bray complained that he could not find a feed on it. I think this should work; there are also some photos down the right hand side to brighten things … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Gloriously batty

Posted on August 14, 2007 by acb

piece by Freeman Dyson, which I found when catching up with the NYRB: he foresees personal biotech kits, analogous to personal computers. The first step in this direction was already taken recently, when genetically modified tropical fish with new and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Hello Monday!

Posted on August 13, 2007 by acb

Should I put a flickr widget here instead of the archives? It seems to make sense to me. Continue reading →

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Science and original sin

Posted on August 13, 2007 by acb

One of the reasons I am not a Christian is that I speak theology quite well. I am naturally gifted in seeing the world that way, so much so that I can never be certain whether I mean or believe … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Race and sex in the USA

Posted on August 9, 2007 by acb

I have a piece at CiF poking fun at Bob Allen, a Republican politician in Florida, keen on family values and locking up perverts who was — but you guessed — busted cottaging in a park in the fine city … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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OK — back again, still silly

Posted on August 4, 2007 by acb

From another week as a Templeton Fellow — really interesting, and I have made, I hope, some friends for the rest of my life. Anyway, this morning, I was flicking idly through the Telegraph blogs, and came across a wonderful … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Beauty tames the beast

Posted on August 2, 2007 by acb

I was talking to a very pretty woman: she sat with her hair the colour of slightly burnt cream against the light; behind her shoulder was the back of a couch striped in black and pale orange. What she had … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Colour and speech

Posted on July 30, 2007 by acb

According to Language log there is a study out suggesting that Nerds, or dorkenheimers, are identified in the Californian school system because they are “too white” and avoid all the “Black” stylings of speech and dress traditionally1 affected by white … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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