Archive for October, 2005
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
ha ha - i found this extract very funny - from a Guardian article on detention of terror suspects re: fuss on trying to extend the 14-day limit to 90 days.
"I don't agree that the police would simply bang up anybody they wanted to bang up," the prime minister ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2005
well its finally happened. so london will therefore have to go the way New York and Dublin did. it will be interesting to see how things pan out. will people just in these "smoking -room carriages" - or will they just stand in the street>? will they find equivalents of ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
the observer blog is no longer
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
the london film festival runs from 19th october to the 3rd november. Alert - online booking starts 5 October - that's tomorrow!
i like the sound of : cave of the yellow dog written and directed by Byambasuren Davaa, which is about a mongolian nomad family and a dog. ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
the thirteenth raindance film festival is on right now in London - until the 9th October. its all about independent films, and they host the British Independent Film awards as well.
tomorrow night at 1730 : Sam Jackson’s Secret Video Diary - sounds intriguing, perhaps ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
that's right children - you all heard me. do what you like, i know you all are anyway. i'm not sitting here to tell you how things ought to be . see thats the funny thing - no matter how much you say that - people insist on imagining that ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
this idling thing really gets at people, doesn't it? they're all fully engaged in rushing to defend work, before they've actually realized what's under discussion here.
i wonder why.
the thing about 'slacking' / 'idling' being deeply ingrained in people's minds as being 'wrong' is clearly true - if anything ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
horror of horrors - check out this entry in the guardian business insight blog: "working time to thrive"
discussion on how working days will lengthen, bosses' assumptions re: contacting us during our 'down time' will spiral out of control even more than currently etc.
why should people expect us ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
anway - just wanted to mention how WSFII went this weekend. i didn't catch very much of it, but it was great the bits i did catch. the panel on Community Currencies was very interesting - and for someone like me - who doesn't know anything abour currencies, it was ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
oh and don't forget the 'Hispanic Challenge' - our loving kind and very thoughtful friend mr. huntington's other controversial book, written after the C of C.
" The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant ...
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