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Last night, saw Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Very funny. Must see. Strays from the book but in a way that you’re glad they didn’t make the book stray. Today, Indian groceries from Mayuri, best Indian grocery in the Puget Sound area (that I can find), then a bunch of wax [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Weird.

Categories: Business & Media

Or is he right? Or does it matter one way or the other because of the sort of thing Gerard Baker wrote about?

The Edge of England’s Sword - Likely Surprises in the Polls

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Alan got to be Latin. Jerk.

You are ‘Gregg shorthand’. Originally designed to enable people to write faster, it is also very useful for writing things which one does not want other people to read, inasmuch as almost no one knows shorthand any more.

You know how important it is to do things efficiently and [...]

Categories: Wildcard

First of all, they’re asking if they should ask for photos from their readers.

We will keep using numerous pictures from agencies and other professionals, as I acknowledged last week, but anyone can help if they think we have a problem with our “stock pictures” - the cow, gay couple, woman having scan, odd [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Times Online - Heavy taxes, a bloated state - we’re marching down the road to serfdom, by Gerard Baker

t will get worse. The Government now backs a more or less open-ended commitment to pouring ever more resources into the demonstrably inefficient bureaucracy of the NHS. Pensions, welfare benefits and education will devour tens [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Strategy Page - The Next Failed State, by Austin Bay

If you don’t know about Canada’s crooked politicians, you’re not alone. Democracy and free speech are breaking out in Beirut, but they’re both taking a beating in Ontario. The Canadian government has a press clamp on an investigation into the ruling Liberal Party’s “Adscam” [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

First, if anyone tries to respond to this, I’ll scream. Second, this smug, selfsatisfied, ignorant pile of defecation makes me want to scream (not Scott or Mr Dudley, but the man described). Third, what in the name of GOD is wrong with the media that they don’t think all this sort of thing [...]

Categories: Politics

Peter just sent this.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: trailer with added subtitles for the 133t among us!

Right click to download. N quite SFW. Great quality vid, though, and I love that this version of the trailer is the one that best advertises the movie. The others, especially the TV spots, make [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Anyone else notice the big deal the Beeb’s been making all week about Vietnam? I dunno what, exactly, because I wasn’t there and I don’t really give a rat’s rear end, but everyday they’ve had a new feature. Today’s? In pictures: The war from the North, or “How North Vietnamese photographers saw [...]

Categories: War and Peace

You guys have to watch Brit Hume tonight, especially the report (two thirds of the way in) on the catered meals to troops in Iraq. Oh. My. Goodness. Salad bars, stir fries, a pastry chef, six different main courses, 9 flavours of ice cream… They need to put that report on the [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Commenter (yes I have them!) Keith in Mtn View (right next to my own home town!) says in response to this entry:

No wonder these anti-gun types are so anti-gun, they treat them like toys and act like having one around makes them go psycho - which they believe is the case for everyone [...]

Categories: Politics

There’s now a Benedict XVI section in the Holy Father index on the Vatican webpage, and they’ve taken his portrait. Isn’t he cute?

And the indexes are so little!

GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday, 27 April 2005 - his first.

Categories: People and Current Events

I hope she’s right.

This is London - Brosnan ‘will stay on as 007′ - By Metro

Pierce Brosnan will play James Bond in the next 007 film, co-star Dame Judi Dench has revealed The 51-year-old will reprise his role as the suave secret agent in Casino Royale, she said. [...]

Categories: Entertainment

The Daily Demarche - Compare and Contrast

The comparison is between the youths of Germany and our Brothers-in-Language down under regarding the Holocaust and WWII and Anzac Day.

Categories: History