Why are there so many good bloggers on the Left who work in the financial sector? Just off the top of my head, I can think of Chris Dillow, from Investors’ Chronicle, actual fund manager Duncan Weldon, stockbroker Daniel Davies, Lloyds’ List journo David Osler. The team at Calculated Risk. You have to decide whether…
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Read More guaranteed – 100% content-free blogging!A magic moment in the history of troll; it may never come again. OK, so you know the climate-change denier talking point about global warming supposedly “stopping” in the last ten years. It’s a classic example of how to lie with numbers; you just choose the bit of the data series that suits you and…
Read More Climate change denier redefines the number 10Is tragic diva SNLI cracking up, ask friends? “Creepy obsession” with blogger raises old rumours about starlet; Max Clifford is holding on line one. “He’s very good with colours”, says Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security. “Everyone around here relies on him for style tips before their TV appearances. I’d never…
Read More I am troll, hear me roar!In support of the last post, here’s some more top Pakistan blogging: intelligent comment about the Army in comments at AM, as well as sense from Chris “Chris” Williams, behind a post that demonstrates one of the core failings of Western thought about Pakistan. Specifically, Andy reckons the Pakistani army is failing; but failing to…
Read More tabdumpSo, Chris “Chris” Williams, J. Carter Wood, and I met up in London to attend the aftermath of this ORG event. A good time was had, even though we didn’t find Charlie or Cory at the Three Kings; we heard of how I made an epic fool of myself in Berlin, how policemen are exported,…
Read More ranting in ClerkenwellYou thought Abu Muqawama was cool? You’re behind the curve. I’ve only been reading the new French multiblog, Alliance Geostrategique for a few weeks, and they come out with a series of posts like these: Living in the city at war, or how the difference between the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian centre of Sarajevo (narrow streets,…
Read More French blogs considered harmful, in a good wayI’m late to the party with this; but this is fantastic. Jordan Barab of Confined Space, the workplace health & safety blog, is now going to be the US government minister in charge of just that. He was one of the very first people ever to link to this blog back in 2003; he was…
Read More Jordan BarabMinor triumph. Hacker News dropped 2,095 hits on this post yesterday, which just shows you what a bit of well-directed whining can achieve; the fleeting attention of one million social-network Skinner-box pigeons. But yes. Anyway, Reggie makes a very good point in comments – why can’t I subscribe to somebody’s contact details and have them…
Read More contacts, againAfter some fiddling I got Jamie Zawinski’s Dadadodo, a program which analyses texts using a Markov chain and then generates random sentences based on their content, running. Obviously there was only one way this could go – straight to Melanie Phillips’ blog. I reproduce below the output from the machine, verbatim. DOCTYPE HTML public Melanie…
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