My hunt for a readable Sunday paper goes on. The Fisk, Cockburn and Watkins Journal is OK, but they insist on including a lot of other stuff that’s nowhere near as good. The Obscurer would be good if it could finally puke and call off the pony hunt for a secular Blairite democracy in Iraq,…
Read More The orange ape that walks like a manGet your idle legs over to the Weblog Awards and vote for Fistful. Exercise your democratic rights here. We’re losing to some random bunch of Dutchmen, but you can help us finish ahead of the demented thrappers of Brussels Journal. As usual with blog awards, it’s stuffed with the overrated and the clichéd. There was…
Read More For Dawkins’ sake…The war comes to Iraq the Model. A modest proposal, if I may. Comments like this one are not “supporting Iraqi democracy”: Congratulations Mohammed. You and your neighbors have taken the first step toward democracy and living as free people. It appears you are coming to the realization that being “free” comes with taking the…
Read More Supporting Iraqi democracyBoingBoing: Wow! a sculpture of someone being shot in the head, and doubts about hypoallergenic cats – are they against open-source? Anna Politkovskaya shot in the head, in the lift up to her flat, while the shopping bags waited in the car.
Read More PrioritiesThis has been knocking around the blogosphere for a while now, but I may as well engage with it. Apparently, David Brin thinks coming generations will miss out because computers don’t come with BASIC any more. I’m not so sure. I was a ZX Spectrum kid, and I used to spend a lot of time…
Read More 10 PRINT “BASIC”After this post, and its sequel here (shorter Washington Post: we asked Richard North what evidence he had for his manic conspiracy theory and he had none), it struck me to wonder why he’s doing this. After all, his stated mission is to discuss the European Constitution, although it would be more accurately described as…
Read More Two blogger career paths