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Drawing: Ingrid BergmanA kiss is still a kiss.
Drawing: SadeDiamond nights and ruby lights. High in the sky.
Amber, Subtle and GoldenI finally finished the third in the trilogy and what an odd trilogy it was. The Golden Compass started out as a straightforward fantasy novel for children borrowing heavily from Christian mythology with some witches and armoured bears for local colour. The thing about the daemons was a nice touch. Gave a good excuse to […]
My Daemon
Build a Better MousetrapA new day, a new trap… Hello! Son of Simon!
But that’s got spam in itWhenever I get a comment from a stranger, I always agonize over whether to approve it. You see, my blog has a moderate first comment rule. The first time you leave a comment, I have to approve it. After that you can comment all you like and it goes straight on to the blog. I’ve […]
To save a president’s legacyThere’s an excellent 8 page article in today’s NY Times magazine that chronicles McCain’s stance on the Iraq War. It’s mostly positive – if you agree with McCain’s stance – and, since the liberal media is not doing it’s job and focussing on the negative, I’ll have to do it… In his book, Chuck Hagel […]
Trying to trick me into sexy talk?Time for the talk soon. I’m going with this… Get married …buy a house …get properly settled in… furniture and so on… and wait for a bit make sure you eat properly – three hot meals a day. Then just wait a bit. Thanks, Dr House!
My Kind of TownPortland is my kind of town
Lines on the Death of AgitarSo. Farewell then Agitar Software (formerly known as TestAgility). We sent you code. You sent back tests. Free. You helped us find crappy code. Now we have to find it for ourselves. Shame it’s so easy. Here! I found some! (with apologies to EJ Thribb, aged 17½)
Free Pander!I still don’t like Gail Collins, but this is pretty funny. Meanwhile, to make up for the lost revenue, McCain says “all we need to do is cut out hundreds of millions and billions of dollars of pork-barrel projects.” These are presumably different pork-barrel projects from the ones McCain is going to cut in order […]
For whom?The sweet spot for Alan Kay’s glorious Squeak is kids who find joy in creating and exploring.
Scary Children
The war is going wellI assume everyone has read the report in the New York Times telling the story of how the Generals who gave independent assessments of the war in Iraq were fed their lines, monitored and punished with loss of access and contracts by the Pentagon? “I saw immediately in 2003 that things were going south,†General […]
Posts and CategoriesNow that wordpress has good support for tags and a decent tag cloud widget, I can’t figure out what the point of categories is. I googled and everyone is very adamant that they are different things in a “no, no, no you don’t understand categories are hierarchical but tags are not” kind of way. But […]
Atlas WhateverThe Utopian dream of the looters ends in dystopia and apocalypse.
The Only TED talk you’ll ever need to see
Leeds CastleDylan had to make a castle for school and made Leeds Castle which is just up the road from where my sister lives. If you look closely, you can see the Frenchman in the tower about to fetchez la vache to throw at the silly English kerniggets below.
degree 4uA new book, The Age of American Unreason, revives the one about society getting stupider. A popular video on YouTube shows Kellie Pickler, the adorable platinum blonde from “American Idol,†appearing on the Fox game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?†during celebrity week. Selected from a third-grade geography curriculum, the $25,000 question […]