One of the people on my "friends" list, thus proving once more how silly it is to call it that, is Samuel Pepys, pepysdiary. Yesterdays entry, for Saturday 19 April 1662: This morning, before we sat, I went to Aldgate; … Continue reading
Susie Bright on the late Andrea Dworkin. The most interesting omission from the googlism is "Andrea Dworkin is wrong", which was a popular t-shirt slogan among American bisexual women back in the late 80s/early 90s. I'm struck by the difference … Continue reading
We have a spiffy new intranet at work, otherwise known as hosting a minimal webserver on my PC with a PHP-based message board for internal notices. Because I just know that half the staff aren't going to refresh their browsers … Continue reading
were two of the world's great printers. And unlike say the ground-breaking early Epson dot matrix printers like the FX-80, you might actually want one today. … Continue reading
From an ad in the Metro on Wednesday (one of those stupid 'lowest unique bid' auctions lotteries): "the most unique price". I can't remember the site, and Google returns about 1.3 million pages for the phrase "most unique". What is … Continue reading
the obituary for Judge Boreham (most famous for being in charge of trials of the 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe and the Brighton bomber Patrick Magee). As is usual, he'd been a leading barrister before being appointed as a judge, including… … Continue reading
The law in (edit!) England & Wales used to be absolutely clear: STI infection during consensual sex was not assault, even when the infection was deliberately concealed from the partner. But in the past couple of years, there have been … Continue reading
From the top left of poster for the original Manchurian Candidate, before even Frank Sinatra's name: You must not miss the first five minutes to know what it's all about! Erm… I know I can be like Woody Allen in … Continue reading
In June last year, someone was wondering which DTP program would be a better bet to teach students. A number of people disagreed when I said Quark was the Word Perfect of DTP – a formerly dominant but outdated program … Continue reading
Want 15 minutes of fame and can't think how? Why not do what's worked in the past again again, but not recently? Announce you've discovered that putting microphones in the ears of a model head produces a really lifelike 3D … Continue reading