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Bollocks can also be spelt Bollox
I note with pleasure and gratitude that BMNBdotcom has made it into David Thompson’s latest list of ephemera, because of an earlier little posting here concerning bollocks. Some while after doing that...
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Steven Pinker: “Don’t confuse pessimism with profundity …”
See the world through Pinker-tinted spectacles than you may be inclined to: Keep some perspective. Not every problem is a Crisis, Plague, Epidemic, or Existential Threat, and not every change is the...
View ArticleJapanese report says dictator is in a vegetative state
The vegitative state in question being North Korea. Other inevitable headlines will will be variations on the theme of “Undead”. FIRE UP THE MEME FACTORIES. LATER: “Is he alive? Is he dead? For the...
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Hong Kong Demo – London – January 19th 2020
The Chinese government has been taking advantage lately of the fact that there is now only one media story, and is now crunching down on Hong Kong. Because now, this isn’t much of a story, compared to...
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Love the NHS or die!
And speaking of photos by other people, as I just was, what of Michael Jennings? I linked to a photo of his not long ago, and do so quite often. Well, on the first day of this month, Mchael was, he...
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Cat kindergarten
Why was I not informed about this remarkable building, erected in 2002 in Karlsruhe, Germany, until now?: I am interested in unusual buildings. On Fridays, I like to do creature-related postings here,...
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Five years ago today on the South Bank
Yes, another retro-photo-meander, on May 11th 2015 Photo 1: This doesn’t exactly nail down the date, does it? This could be a headline from any day during the last two decades. False, every time. The...
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Tiananmen tank man – the small picture and the bigger picture
Someone calling himself hardmaru tweets, of this photo …: … this: The full Tiananmen Square tank man picture is much more powerful than the cropped one. Not sure that’s right. You only get the point of...
View ArticleIan Leslie seems to be learning from his mistakes
You get the feeling that a certain New Statesman piece, written in June 2016, must have had a rather big impact on the life and career of its author. Here is what the headline above it said: Calm down....
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Adam Nathaniel Furman – Colourful Modernist
Here we go. Colourful Modernism is on the up-and-up: Design education “brainwashes” students into rejecting colour, pattern and ornament, according to Adam Nathaniel Furman, who said a group of London...
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One year ago today: “You cannot do that!”
I love to photo the front pages of newspapers, while in shops from which I also buy things I still want: And that was the front page of The Times of a year ago tomorrow, June 1st 2019. The headlines...
View ArticleIn which Patrick Crozier tells me that the Americans could and should have...
This was in the course of our latest recorded conversation, which we had over the phone (by which I mean my phone and his computer) last Wednesday, and which has just been posted at Croziervision, with...
View ArticleCandace Owens – alarm clock for black America
My thanks to Scott Adams for telling me about this video speech to camera by Candace Owens. (When I watched this video at the Scott Adams twitter feed, the top of her head was sliced off, sometimes...
View ArticleRoz Watkins “in the front rank of British crime writers”
About three weeks ago, I mentioned the latest DI Meg Dalton book, and its author (also my niece) Roz Watkins. The Daily Mail just gave Cut To The Bone, which comes out this month, this glowing review:...
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New River walk with GodDaughter1 from Bounds Green to Enfield
On April 2nd 2016, GodDaughter1 and I went on a photo-expedition along the New River. It was most enjoyable, and I prepared another of those big photo-clutches that I could seldom bother to do on the...
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Signs in Seattle
Here: I agree with what Matthew Continetti says in this piece, which the above photo adorns, that this is froth. History as farce, Tom Wolf style. This “Seattle Soviet” is going nowhere. It’s “signs...
View ArticleSpaceX building fewer rockets
Most of the news today seems to be particular bad. But not this: SpaceX has gotten good enough at reuse that it’s building fewer rockets. Space travel is finally getting back to being as fun to follow...
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On how I may now not resume buying classical music magazines
Every month for as long as I can remember, I’ve been buying paper copies of Gramophone and the BBC Music Magazine, “Music” being how the BBC refers to classical music. All over my home, these magazines...
View ArticleThat a manufacturer of something complicated is using 3D printing to make it...
I get emails from Google concerning 3D printing. These emails happen daily and each contains links to many reports of 3D printing being done by this or that enterprise. When I first learned about 3D...
View ArticleJames Lindsay talks to and with Joe Rogan
I’ve had my morning deranged by watching and listening to this video of … well, see above. Lots of wisdom in this. Lots. James Lindsay is a new name to me, and towards the end of this he talked about...
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