Archive for October, 2005
Friday, October 21st, 2005
really the things you find out there! so for some reason i manage to get on to TIME magazine's top 50 'coolest sites of 2005' . And what do you find under the top 50 blogs? well you find one site...' go fug yourself' - and you think - ...
Posted in News & info, stupidity and violence | 9 Comments »
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Breaking news..Guardian journalist freed in Iraq - check the latest out.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
how terrible. granted that all this sort of thing is terrible anyway, still what sort of idiot abducters go around abducting journalists who are critical of the US led coalition? surely you'd think those were the voices they'd want heard. then again that presumes a certain amount of rationality and ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
even more hilarious¬! - scroll down to read to hear some first-class racism straight from india via the indian capitalist. ( see the comments on the post below)
( i wonder what the indian blogosphere would have to say about his comments by the way..seeing as he's making blanket ...
Posted in India, News & info, World Affairs: politics and news | 6 Comments »
Monday, October 17th, 2005
the fun on the guardian blogs goes on. i've been posting on the News Blog - an old article dating back from last wednesday titled -" Burberry checks ferret fashion" (! indeed) Still a lot of activity on this particular one - thanks to indian ...
Posted in India, London, News & info | 7 Comments »
Monday, October 17th, 2005
i've just been having a laugh at the wording of this paragraph - an extract from the London Plan -:
"The London Plan recognises that the benefit of growth must be targeted to address the needs of groups who historically have had difficulty in gaining access to them. These groups ...
Posted in London, Musings | 2 Comments »
Monday, October 17th, 2005
"The master of the monstrous... the discoverer of the unconscious" --- Carl Jung, on Hieronymus Bosch
A Flemish painter ( circa 1450 - 1516) from the small Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, we know very little about this enigmatic character. The Surrealists were rather fond of him, and you can see ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
funny quirky things these bots. you may have seen some rather odd comments on this blog and wondered why i've been letting a few of these autogenerated comments through. ah well i don't let most of the diamond and casino type nonsense through - but occasionally, there are some ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2005
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh. 1928
His first novel.
Posted in Books and Literary Things, Cool Stuff | No Comments »
Friday, October 14th, 2005
Event Watch: LSE Public Lecture: American Power: global sheriff – international outlaw? LSE's Cold War Studies Centre
hmm lets see what they have to say, should be interesting! usually the debate tends to be completely polarized with a lot of monocausal arguments thrown in.
Tuesday 18 October 2005/ 6.30pm/ @ ...
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