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Now it seems the government and military are concerned.
boo hoo.
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Space is next
July 16, 2007 – 11:12 am
Major intelligence setback in GWOT
July 15, 2007 – 4:37 pm
Those clever Iranians are on to us:
According to IRNA, the official Islamic Republic news agency, the national Police chief has implicitly verified the news about the confiscation of a number of squirrels, equipped with eavesdropping devices, on the Iranian borders. He has declined to give any more details, but, reportedly, when asked about the confiscation [...]
Jah Wobble
July 14, 2007 – 2:56 pm
Trawling Wikipedia, I find:
Early post-PiL years
Soon after leaving PiL, Wobble started his solo career [...] However, his critical stance towards the commercialization of the music industry, compounded by heavy drinking led to his abandoning music for a short period in the mid eighties. By 1986 he was clean and sober. He then worked a variety [...]
The tears of sad hippies are measured (and doled out) in micrograms
July 13, 2007 – 12:26 pm
It’s always a good thing to know your chemist.
(Related personal anecdotes redacted.)
Harry Potter and the trying-too-hard leftists
July 12, 2007 – 9:09 pm
Slate on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
Any fan of the books knows the story already, and I don’t want to ruin it for those that don’t, but briefly: In Harry and his pals’ fifth year at Hogwarts, the stalwart headmaster, Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), is in the process of being overthrown by [...]
Tintin in England
July 12, 2007 – 8:03 pm
Racist imagery “found” in 1931 comic book!
The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled a Tintin book racist and criticised a high street book chain for stocking the title.
The CRE says Tintin in the Congo makes black people “look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles”.
It has called on Borders to remove it from sale due to [...]
Name dropping
July 12, 2007 – 7:19 pm
So, we’ve seen a couple of
so I was talking to Lileks on the phone the other day
-type remarks over at dispatches from TJICistan… which aren’t quite as bad as the
so I was talking to Lileks - yes, world-famous blogger Lileks, in case you were wondering - on the phone the other day
-type remarks that [...]
Am I dozing off, or is someone calling me?
July 12, 2007 – 4:43 pm
The long joked about ringtonesdrones have arrived. Which almost makes me want to
figure out if my clunky old phone supports such newfangled things
start using it
I wish those guys had an RSS feed - I missed a show in April.
Now that’s how you hit a fucking microwaveplay Perrier bottles!
July 12, 2007 – 4:39 pm
The late Frank Tovey. Ah, the 80s.
(subject line: scroll down for Gang of Four)
History repeats
July 12, 2007 – 4:31 pm
1881:
Dear W. Gladstone,
We both your servants have met this afternoon to write you these few lines of writing trusting it may find you in a good state of life as it leaves us at present. As we heard here that you are the chief man in the House of Commons, so we write to tell [...]
And me, without my camera
July 12, 2007 – 4:06 pm
Spotted on July 3rd in a New Hampshire store window: a sign, reading
Free Flag with every gun purchase!
Just awesome. Though, I’m sure, irritating to some.
What would his great-great-grandfather think?
July 12, 2007 – 10:58 am
Now this is a freakin’ obituary:
Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
The last line:
He never married.
Apparently he never found the time.
Quick, call Michael J. Fox, er, I mean Pamela Anderson
July 9, 2007 – 4:03 pm
Damn those conservatives! They are holding up important stem cell research.
Harry Clarke
July 5, 2007 – 3:45 pm
(click details above for larger images)
Via the QM, Golden Age Comic Book Stories, which includes some posts (photos above from this one) of very very cool work by Irish Arts & Crafts illustrator Harry Clarke:
The son of a craftsman, Joshua Clarke, Clarke the younger was exposed to art (and in particular Art Nouveau) at an [...]
We call it TIJC
July 2, 2007 – 7:26 pm
Fun with Google Language Tools:
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Is it just me?
July 1, 2007 – 4:00 pm
Or is there a real drop in quality towards the very end?
You could, in fact, pick a better century out of a hat.