Entries from May 2007
I’m Here For You People
The May issue of Wired had this story, about some of the American Embassy workers who got out during the hostage crisis:
Wired Magazine - How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran
Including this, in a sidebar “Flight From Iran/ 27 years on, we asked key players to recall the operation. [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Voulez Vous Vouloir
The Times - Tu Disrespectful Nicolas Sarkozy’s new Government is making a stand for linguistic civility
A triumph, then, for those who never thought it at all paradoxical to be so formal and simultaneously so forward when inquiring, as the song goes: “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?”
(I wonder if RC2’s net nanny will catch [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Will John Kerry’s Be In There?
Peter Recommends CCVI
“Holy crap, good job Kotaku on the utterly unknown British TV reference:”
Kotaku - Doak: British Government Driving Industry Out Of Business
“I’m stunned.”
Click to see why! And why the British government is making an ass of itself this time.
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Ugly Americans!
SMH - Japanese top good tourists’ league
The best tourists in the world are the Japanese, followed by Americans and the Swiss, a survey based on views from hoteliers across Europe said today.
Hah!
…unlike the Britons who were judged to be the fifth worst tourists because of rude behaviour, noise and a miserly [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
The Man From Finsbury Park
Mr Hitchens on his old neighborhood, and everything that’s gone wrong (it’s too wide-ranging to start quoting):
Vanity Fair - Londonistan Calling The London neighborhood of the author’s youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Should I Get a Hedge?
having audio heightens the experience
Hmm. They really do tuck themselves up like that, don’t they. It’s like those plush toys that you pop inside out to make a different animal or whatever.
Do you think raising chickens on a condo balcony is a good idea?
Categories: Science and Nature
Peter Recommends CCV
I Can Has Cheezburger - Invisible dining chair
This is the best “invisible” of them all, I think.
Categories: Catblogging
Smart Bombs
(Speaking of bombs, it seems that “f-bomb” has become embraced by our media classes as fully part of our language. Is it just me or was this phrase first coined by Omarosa on the first season of The Apprentice?)
Instapundit:
THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN SMARTER IN 2003: Bush authorizes new covert action against Iran.
UPDATE: [...]
Categories: War and Peace
That Survey
So, most people saw this sort of thing:
Ace of Spades - A Day of Shocks: Media Spins or Ignores Disturbing Finding That Quarter of American Muslim Young Men Support Terrorism
…with all the relevant headlines.
But yesterday afternoon the guy that does the CBS radio headlines at the top of the hour broke it down, that 80% [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Classical Contemporaneity
Telegraph - Listen to Elgar, learn the meaning of greatness. By Simon Heffer
Classical music in our times is a much devalued and prostituted art form. Most contemporary composers, padded by public subsidies of which Elgar could not even have dreamt, write works whose excellence is, for them and their small band of self-regarding [...]
Categories: Art and Literature
ninme Passes Out
Categories: Science and Nature
Sing It, Mr Zteyn
Chicago Sun-Times - Capitulation, from A—— to Z
Are you a fine upstanding member of the Undocumented-American community? That’s to say, are you (if you’ll forgive the expression) an illegal immigrant? Great news! Being illegal is now perfectly legal! Just for being one of the circa 12 million people who shouldn’t be here, [...]
Categories: Politics
Hail Éire: There’s Hope For Us All
The last Hail Éire was one of the most commented posts I’ve ever had. And we only got slightly off-topic. Hail Ireland too got a lot of comments. There’s a post I swear I did on a story about the EU getting uppity about Ireland’s business tax policy because Ireland was getting [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Let Me Put On My Divination Hat
Reuters - “Harry Potter” film to premiere in Tokyo
There is “no special reason” why the film is making its premiere in Japan, the spokeswoman said.
Although, perhaps one could say that it is premiering in Japan because neither British nor American school girls lie in the middle of the road to force Daniel Radcliffe’s [...]
Categories: Entertainment
