Nearly all teenagers lean to the Left of course, but, if their precocious vocabulary is anything to go by, the ones the Sun-Sentinel has gathered together to comment on the US Presidential debate seem to have been taken from various South Florida academies for the gifted: “Although this debate proved to be the most entertaining, […]
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Local Minimum
I’m not very good at parking. I have written here before about my driving my friend Auriol‘s car through a Genome Campus fence. Today I discovered why everyone avoids the cornermost parking space of the Campus’s underground car park when, moving into it, I managed to shuffle back and forth enough times to wedge my […]
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Not A Photo Of A Cat
This is not open for debate. My niece is cute.
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The People Must Know
I want the owner of this Website to try out this product. And I want action pictures.
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‘Blogger Completely Unable To Reach Instant Conclusion
I believe that, where it exists as a punishment for unlawful killing, the death penalty deters some potential murderers. I believe that, perversely, it can also make those who have already killed more likely to kill again. I believe that states should not execute their citizens. I believe that culpability for a crime should depend […]
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Unintended Consequences
Many Americans see in Tony Blair the leader they cannot elect. Many also feel the same way about Arnold Schwarzenegger and are campaigning to make it possible for California’s “Governator” or any naturalized citizen meeting certain requirements to be permitted to become their president (subject to the other usual conditions). At least one commentator here […]
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Hating Themselves
Very shortly after I started PooterGeek, I posted a link to an article in The Independent, in the days when that newspaper was still in possession of some of its marbles. It described the abuse an American couple received in a British supermarket queue from a British family, abuse based solely on that couple’s being […]
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Thank You, My People
Yesterday PooterGeek had the highest number of hits I have ever recorded—equivalent to about two minutes’ worth of traffic at Instapundit. Thanks to everyone who linked to my exhibit and said nice things. As I pointed out at Harry’s Place, I can’t post any on-site photos of my work lest I reveal the secret location […]
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The Frat-Boys Do Physics And Philosophy
This is the most profound and extraordinary scientific result I have read about in months, and I only found out about it because it was linked to in last week’s Fark. (If you visit Fark, you might want to follow its lead to The Sun to see if you can parse the first sentence of […]
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But Is It Art?
SUE FROM BBC LOCAL RADIO: I’m standing in the grounds of an ordinary central Cambridge apartment block where local resident Damian Counsell has found himself at the centre of a controversy following his construction of a sculpture he has called, somewhat provocatively even he must admit, “You Bet Your Sweet Ass It Was In My […]
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A Killer Title
I saw this poster yesterday on the noticeboard at work. The Cambridge Philosophical Society lectures are public. To quote the society, they are “open to all who are interested”. Sadly, even the touts had run out of tickets for this one: Professor Peter Littlewood Department of Physics ‘Quantum phase coherence: from coupled pendula to Bose-Einstein […]
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Cry For England and St George
This morning on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Dipesh Shah, Chief Executive of the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority responded to the questions asked of him in his interview in almost unbroken corporate English. Listen to him use the phrase “the legacy of the past” twice and put the AEA’s recent success down to their “not […]
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Stemmed Flow
Christopher Reeve is dead. The obituary on Radio 4 is already taking the “de mortuis nil nisi bonum” approach a bit too far by claiming that Reeve “avoided typecasting”. I, for one, remember his Henry V with profound admiration. Good lad, though, as Will Rubbish would say.
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Electioneering
Bob Geldof defends Blair and Brown against accusations that their campaign of assistance for the developing world is just an election stunt. It’s understandable that a populist stance like theirs should inspire cynicism. Everyone knows there are too many easy votes in helping out the fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa.
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Very Scary Indeed
I have posted many times about my immense Google karma. Today I have had a huge spike in hits (by my modest standards) because this post is number four match on Yahoo search for “Bigley decapitation“. A nervous hello to all my new readers—including the eloquent “Ben”.
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David Beckham: Evil Genius
A poster going by the name of “YellowFeather” over at The Motley Fool has a theory why David Beckham thought it was okay to have the last “word” in his on-the-pitch feud with Thatcher [that’s the footballer, not the former UK Prime Minister or any of her relatives] during the England vs Wales World Cup […]
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The Tories Warned Us
This is the kind of thing that happens when you let the Germans reunite and people stop hunting wild animals.
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Mucho Macho
I saw Collateral some time ago, but haven’t got round to writing about it, have nothing original to say, and feel slightly let down by Michael Mann (who is a god). It’s not that it’s a bad film; it is, in many ways, superb, but, like others who’ve seen it, I think that Mann or […]
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The Unfreeing Of The American Press
The Anonymous Economist has emailed me this New York Times article which says something important about the state of the USA’s institutions: “Last Thursday, a federal district judge ordered a New York Times reporter, Judy Miller, sent to prison. Her crime was doing her job as the founders of this nation intended. Here’s what happened […]
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Blood On His Hands
“From the crowds that hailed New Labour in 1997 to the despair of Kenneth Bigley is a vast emotional distance.” —editorial in The Independent, 09Oct04 This week, the same Tony Blair who had promised “Decapitation, decapitation, decapitation” at the 2000 Labour Party conference finally made good on his chilling promise. Standing before an endlessly looping […]
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Black And White
This is funny. [UPDATE: Link above now fixed.]
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Making Life Taste Better
It’s amazing what you can pick up at the supermarket these days. [unmanipulated crop of the original scan, taken at the main Cambridge Sainsbury’s]
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Welcome To The Future
Of course, if I did own a TV in this year of 2004, I could watch the alleged ex-lover of a waning international football star masturbate a pig. [Er, thanks, Laban.]
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“Hunting Blacks And Jews”
Not having a television, I have only seen some online snippets of Sacha Baron-Cohen‘s comedy creation “Borat” before. Tomodachi at Susurration linked this week to a clip of an American hunter agreeing with the invented Khazakstani television presenter in front of cameras that it would be alright by him if the USA had a game […]
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School Leaving Age
Brian notes that Nigella Lawson is dissing British tertiary education. She’s right to do so. And I’d say that even I wasn’t picturing her doing the dissing in sub-fusc. [Blimey, I think that might have been some non-gratuitous Nigella. Am I getting old?
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Beige Is The New White
The Bratz are overtaking Barbie in toy sales. This harrowing Reuters photo shows various members of that posse of multiethnic dolls mugging the latter anorexic, plastic-boobed Arayan bint down an alley. Note that the leader of the gang, standing on the far-left, is Ashkenazi enforcer Eitan, a PooterGeek regular.
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David Duff Update
David Duff has sent me two gracious emails. I was going to say this anyway from my geek’s perspective, but he stated in one of these emails—I believe truthfully—that he has never posted here or elsewhere under different names. As Chris Brooke notes David Duff has made some good contributions at the Stoa and he […]
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