Monthly Archives: July 2007

Space is next

Posted on July 16, 2007 by jmd

archenemy has posted about luxury private submarines before. Now it seems the government and military are concerned. boo hoo.

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Major intelligence setback in GWOT

Posted on July 15, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Slow-flying wingsuit

Posted on July 15, 2007 by dff

Some people, they crazy.

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Jah Wobble

Posted on July 14, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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The tears of sad hippies are measured (and doled out) in micrograms

Posted on July 13, 2007 by dff

It’s always a good thing to know your chemist. (Related personal anecdotes redacted.)

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In Anarchotopia

Posted on July 13, 2007 by dff

…I will buy this SUV. From a roadside vending machine.

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Harry Potter and the trying-too-hard leftists

Posted on July 12, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Tintin in England

Posted on July 12, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Name dropping

Posted on July 12, 2007 by dff

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, … Continue reading →

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Am I dozing off, or is someone calling me?

Posted on July 12, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Now that’s how you hit a fucking microwaveplay Perrier bottles!

Posted on July 12, 2007 by dff

The late Frank Tovey. Ah, the 80s. (subject line: scroll down for Gang of Four)

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Ray Frenden – the Bruce Lee of digital inking

Posted on July 12, 2007 by dff

Damn! What chops!

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History repeats

Posted on July 12, 2007 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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And me, without my camera

Posted on July 12, 2007 by dff

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.

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What would his great-great-grandfather think?

Posted on July 12, 2007 by jmd

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 … Continue reading →

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Quick, call Michael J. Fox, er, I mean Pamela Anderson

Posted on July 9, 2007 by jmd

Damn those conservatives! They are holding up important stem cell research.

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Harry Clarke

Posted on July 5, 2007 by dff

(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 … Continue reading →

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We call it TIJC

Posted on July 2, 2007 by dff

Fun with Google Language Tools: Today I speak about a programmatore anarcho-capitalist to you, from blog a a lot interesting, and of a lawyer of one other company, in an other cittá, in an other federal state, all in the … Continue reading →

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Is it just me?

Posted on July 1, 2007 by dff

Or is there a real drop in quality towards the very end? You could, in fact, pick a better century out of a hat.

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