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Search Results for: 2024 Network Appliance Newest NS0-604 Intereactive Testing Engine 🚵 Immediately open ⮆ www.pdfvce.com ⮄ and search for ➡ NS0-604 ️⬅️ to obtain a free download ♿Vce NS0-604 Download
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A Search Engine For Labels For Mental Objects
When you can’t look up something in a dictionary because you don’t know what you’re looking for, even the wordy vastness of the Web is of limited use. This happens…
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Top Tip For ‘Bloggers
…For example, if your ‘Blog is at http://tothetootingstation.typepad.com/blog/ then type http://tothetootingstation.typepad.com/ The minus prefix to the word “site” is essential, because this excludes links into your ‘Blog that come from…
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Fighting The Good Fight
…engine would intrigue me: [T]here’s a new search engine in town that’s got a fresh approach to weed out the ever-proliferating junk and spam sites polluting search results. It’s no…
Read More17Apr03 — 0
Disappointed Customers
Holy Moly. Two amazing searches brought punters to counsell.com yesterday evening. Perverts first. Someone was looking for “pictures of English women shitting” via search.yahoo.com. Fortunately this site is only referenced…
Read More05Apr23 — 0
Ten-year quest through Development Hell pays off
…are free to play, thanks to its very open licence and generous distribution of the core of the intellectual property. This choice has not only helped interest in the game…
Read More04Nov05 — 8
Tell Me Your Stories Or I Start The Engine
…In fact, in the dark days of my hand-coding my ‘Blog in static HTML (when it wasn’t even called “PooterGeek”), it might well have carried the tagline “Guaranteed Cat-Free”. Today…
Read More09Jul03 — 3
How Do You Spell “Free”?
Maoi drew my attention to an article in tomorrow’s Nature about an international call for patent-free, “open source” drug development, signed by various stars, including a couple of Nobelists. I…
Read More02May07 — 4
Join The Revolution
…version of Kubuntu, a variant of the free-as-in-“free speech” as well free-as-in-“free beer” Ubuntu. All the remote machines that host my own Websites and those I have built for clients…
Read More30Dec08 — 14
In Search Of The Perfect Pitch
…to buy the album too. Download it now before it’s gone. East Of Angel Town sounds like it had the budget of Gladiator spent on it. In fact, some of…
Read More11Nov12 — 4
The first Levy & Counsell podcast at Ricochet.com
Oh the irony. My contribution to the first (test) Levy & Counsell podcast as token friendly Lefty at online US conservative community Ricochet.com was marred by technical problems. Even I find it…
Read More08Sep07 — 16
Bin Laden Still Trapped In Underground Bunker Behind Wall Of Rubble With Only Webcam, Grecian 2000, And “Comment Is Free” For Company
…and an end to democracy. Someone give him a newspaper column. Whoops. Already been done. I’m not quoting the costumed cock here. You can search the Web for a transcript…
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Free As A Bird
…yet done so, hop to the Surrey Comet Website, where readers have been invited to comment on a story about how town centre managers have hired a marksman to deal…
Read More05Apr06 — 7
Free Postcards!
…need of an event photographer—about me and put a card with my contact details into their hands. Just email me and I’ll send you a free pack of cards. Share…
Read More30Oct08 — 1
The Ultimate “Comment Is Free” Comment?
I don’t read or link to “Comment Is Free”, The Guardian‘s cesspit of a group blog. Sadie saves you, me, and everybody from ever having to do so again by…
Read More11Sep04 — 3
No Such Thing As A Free Dinner
…it seemed to be free-of-charge. Naturally, I filled out the faxback form straight away and, er, faxed it back. Having achieved fuck-all since I left, it seemed pretty unlikely that…
Read More15Jul13 — 0
Testing Storify
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Testing Polling
No one reads blogs on sunny weekends so this is possibly the worst time to try this out, but, being an evil neocon, I have decided to install Democracy 2.0.1…
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Testing "podcasting"
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Testing flickr-Blogging
Originally uploaded by shakingwave. Front bear: “Hey, people, give it up for Eric and Lionel—the amazing breakdancing bears!” Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More07Dec04 — 12
The Conservatives: Less Action. More Adobe Acrobat Files
…World Wide Web Consortium specifies free and open standards. Everyone who puts a page on the Web should follow them. That way everyone who reads stuff on the Web can…
Read More31Jan06 — 1
Public Sector Search Watch
Today I had a visitor (apparently) from a machine in Brent Town Council’s offices. He/she came looking for “fat young girls”. In connection with which of that London Borough’s administration’s…
Read More12Aug08 — 0
Disturbing Search Of The Moment
I’m kind of afraid to ask why people have been arriving at PooterGeek over the past couple of days as a result of googling for “John Kettley” and “hedgehog”. I…
Read More06Apr05 — 1
Good Sit-Com Shocker
Clare In The Community is a radio adaptation of a Guardian comic strip about social workers. Given that description, you’ll probably be amazed to read that it’s also very entertaining….
Read More26Jun06 — 2
Open Letter
Dear Keith Flett If I promise to set you up with your own blog, will you promise never to write to a newspaper again? Yours sincerely Damian Counsell Brighton &…
Read More27Sep04 — 0
Return Of The Genome
…to make a lot less of it. I argue that this would be A Bad Thing. I believe that free or open source software, creative commons licensing, and the creation…
Read More28Sep12 — 0
“Comment Is Free”: 1952 edition
Via Daniel Knowles on Twitter, where he is @dlknowles, I read this marvellous old letter to the (then) Manchester Guardian from one of its totalitarian about-to-be-ex- readers: reader’s letter to…
Read More04Mar06 — 9
Sky-Fairies Continue To Advise Leaders Of Free World
When I was about nine years old I told a bunch of advancing micro-racists that I wasn’t scared of them because “Jesus was on my side”. That the Son of…
Read More29Mar06 — 8
Truly The Devil Has The Best Tunes
…using an amazing collection of free (that’s free as in “free beer”, but sadly not free as in “free speech”) tools called Buzz machines. We’ve been putting together a song…
Read More18Jun07 — 3
Free Shoot
If you are having a reasonably smart and public evening party/reception/dinner in the near future and would like it to be captured on film, gratis, then contact me. I want…
Read More30Aug06 — 6
How Free Markets For Talent Work, An Explanation For Talentless Market Freeloaders
Over the past couple of weeks there’s been a crop of stories in the media in which employers bleat about the “shortage” of trained scientists and the “shortage” of literate…
Read More29Apr18 — 0
Protected: Spoiler-free review of Avengers: Infinity War: Part I
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Win A Spouse In PooterGeek's Exciting BBC Online Challenge!
…Web competition invites you to visit the BBC Website via the link I have just provided and obtain a postal address (that’s snailmail, people) to which such a complaint could…
Read More09Jan07 — 11
Nokia PC Suite Connection Tip
…this and have stumbled on this post via a search engine, having struggled to get your computer to talk to your phone, then follow these instructions [scroll down to “Professor”…
Read More24Nov06 — 8
You Can Give It Away—Unless It’s By Louise Bagshawe
…on the information desk I plant myself outside the gates. With a flip of the lid, bearing the A2 legend FREE BOOKS FREE CARDS and some shuffling of the contents…
Read More26Sep05 — 16
Strawberry Jammin’
…Except that, er, instead of hitting the offbeat, he hits the downbeat everytime. Watching the faces of passersby – as they realise what’s going on – is truly comical.” I…
Read More24Jul08 — 0
Nokia 6300 Review
…and have a small pot of sharpened 1B pencils on his desk and drive a diesel hatchback bought with a two-year warranty from Network Q. He would use it to commute…
Read More15Nov05 — 4
If Only The Comprehensive System Had Died Instead
…peers at a sink comprehensive they’ve engineered specially for you, all in the name of a ramshackle ideology of levelling down so stupid even the Soviet Union rejected it. Funny…
Read More06Sep04 — 1
Qualification Inflation
Apologies to those of you outside the UK who can’t access this whole article from The Times for free. [Email me if you want more info 😉 ] This education…
Read More11Jan05 — 2
She’s A Celebrity—Keep Her In There!
My not-very-exciting anecdote about Germaine Greer is completely true. While I was working there, I started and was Secretary of the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) Reading Group. It was…
Read More19Jun06 — 12
Will Blog For Links
…and link them to http://www.sepial.com/. You only need to do it once (too many citations would probably be counterproductive anyway), but it would help if you put the link somewhere…
Read More12Sep07 — 12
Toshiba Tecra A8 Review
…editing (with Open Office that I downloaded and installed), DVD viewing, and surfing the Web. I’m just going to talk about performance as a user in front of a black…
Read More22Mar07 — 30
Shouty Men
…ways these blogs are to dead tree journalism like early steam locomotives used to be to stationary engines: almost as loud and smelly, but now they run on a network….
Read More19Aug05 — 62
Dinosaurs Disturbed By Sight Of Young Female Tree Shrews Laying Down Mammary Fat
…his support in the comments at Harry’s Place to expand and clarify my argument. Perhaps this is even more unfair when Harry is honest enough to admit himself that he…
Read More18Feb05 — 0
The Threat From The Curds
…hospital casualty departments in a typical year. [Search for “hass” and open the PDF “Accident Statistics : 2002”—a bit of rummaging and you’ll get there.] The woman’s a natural ‘Blogger,…
Read More07May05 — 7
Microsoft Taxes Our Schools
…infest British classrooms with communist software was a guy at Becta (British Educational Communications and Technology Association). He resigned in frustration at the clueless resistance from his colleagues and superiors…
Read More29Sep08 — 3
How I Became A Blogger
…I say? People are st- still free to choose any rival home for their life savings. BUERK: Are you aware that focus group work commissioned by your own company revealed…
Read More06Jun04 — 0
Moan Moan Moan
Everything around here was down again last night and this morning: no PooterGeek, no counsell.com, no loveandbentspoons.com, no email, no nuffink. Apologies to people who might have been trying to…
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Collaborators And Fighters
…even-older-timers. Beginners in online communication often don’t even realise there are any rules at all. Hardcore open source geeks, for example, that is people who collaborate globally to write software,…
Read More03Apr04 — 0
Very Busy So Short, But Important, Post
Jew there. Explanation here. UPDATE: This article seems to have become subscription only, so you might be interested in a (free) ‘Blog entry at JewSchool. You might need to scroll…
Read More14Jun06 — 9
“Here Come The Boys From Brazil, Terry”
They start an international football competition looking horribly over-rated. They lead by a goal from one impressive long shot in the first half, but are made to seem pedestrian in…
Read More02Nov19 — 3
Live comedy review: Geoff Norcott at the Southport Comedy Festival
…likes of Simon Evans and Konstantin Kisin—even to the extent of there now being comedy evenings dedicated to “free-thinking comedy“. You can check out Konstantin interviewing Simon about wokeness in contemporary comedy here….
Read More29Apr10 — 0
Lost Appeal
…governments. The individual conscience is free to accept such dictated law; but the State, if its people are to be free, has the burdensome duty of thinking for itself. Would…
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Historical Perspective
Also earlier this week, when I asked them, Claire and Judith Wrubel Levy kindly recommended books on the American Civil War to me. Claire suggested Eric Foner’s Free Soil, Free…
Read More27Apr05 — 1
Another One Joins The Club
Stumbling and Mumbling makes the ‘Roll. There’ve been some excellent posts there lately. I liked this, this, this and this. I believe in free trade as much the next bug-eyed…
Read More10Sep07 — 5
Sex-Starved African In Steamy Hotel Room Action With Brazilian Maid
…immediately obvious from my appearance. Most Sierra Leoneans would call me “white”; most Brits wouldn’t. To a large fraction of the people on this planet I just look vaguely “foreign”….
Read More30Sep05 — 2
Usage And Abusage
…know that the green Rizla papers with the corners cut off are for blind smokers? blank CD-Rs—“Obtain the permission of the copyright holder…” phallic vibrating neck massagers—“For those difficult to…
Read More24Jun08 — 1
Trouble At T’ Degree Mill
…in to provide an external verification of standards. and the comment from an external examiner below it: I’ve seen some very poor examining before – a lot of examiners are…
Read More07Dec05 — 8
Proud To Be British
…have sets of four face-to-face seats at the rear and the rowdiness seems to be coming from that area. I assume it’s just some pre-Friday-night-out drunken joshing and sit myself…
Read More22Feb05 — 4
Rabbits On The Perimeter Fence
…of my upgrading this thing, 57 varieties of annoying spamming scum and devious abusive snotbag converged on pootergeek.com probing and testing for weaknesses. Every five minutes some virtual alarm or…
Read More05Dec08 — 0
Always To The Swift
…fast-twitch muscle fiber because you’re black. The causal unit is a gene, or a network of genes, or a network of genes and environmental factors. Being black only makes you…
Read More08May06 — 6
Great Moments In English Legal History
Apple Computer has won a major legal battle today when a High Court judge in London ruled that the company had not breached a trademark agreement made 15 years ago…
Read More19Jun03 — 2
Gaze With Awe Upon My Works
Remember this experiment in search-engine-ology? PooterGeek is already 6th highest Google hit on the entire planet for the phrase “naked Harry Potter” and for the phrase “Charlotte Church nude“. The…
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Capable Of Universal Computation
The new “un-search engine” Wolfram Alpha beat Google in at least one of my tests: Why did the chicken cross the road? Here are some of its answers to other,…
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Unmissable
…water pump in the engine of my car, and a stinking cold—thank you, Maisie and Sam, you cute little bundles of virions. Naturally I took the opportunity of watching your…
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I Blame The Jews
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Anyone Who Had a Heart
Please don’t ask me how I came to be browsing “www.pacemakerclub.com“. Running down the right-hand side of their front page they have links to their readers’ emails, to which other…
Read More11Mar05 — 0
Searches Of The Week
Someone was brought here yesterday by a search for “Get your Colonial Shame off my breasts”. What they really wanted was this [safe for work]. Other recent PooterGeek hits: “sinn…
Read More05Sep05 — 27
With Apologies To Monty Python
…opens his coat to expose a detonator belt.] LIZA: Who is it, darling? CHARLIE: He says his name is “Shaheed” and I think he’s come to blow us up. LIZA:…
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Ad-vice For Entrepreneurs
…before Guildford Crown Court. He was jailed for 12 months and ordered to pay £500 costs. The court heard that Tang operated a website called www.scandalbabes.co.uk from his home in…
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Machine Logic
What happens when inflation on goods goes negative and inflation on services stays positive? You get a free computer for signing up with a mobile phone network. Share this: Facebook…
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The End Times
You might have guessed from the thinness of posting here that I am busy at the moment, but the Anonymous Economist recommends this (non-free) editorial from the New York Times….
Read More06Feb06 — 0
What Else Is There To Do In North Carolina?
…ever before, without altering their natural behaviour in such circumstances: ie, to immediately rip him limb from limb and swallow the still twitching chunks whole. We await with interest the…
Read More04Sep05 — 5
I Want To Work For World Peace
…exploitative “competition”. “Islamic leaders” are also disturbed: Hashim Sulaiman, of the Liverpool Islamic Institute, said: “There is no way a Muslim girl should be playing any part in this competition,…
Read More22Jul04 — 1
How Science Gets Done
…it included a paper with an author whose name I recognized. The authors of the paper had done a big computer analysis of lots of biological data. It immediately struck…
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Maggie Out
…Party (The Lady’s Not For Spurning) that I downloaded from the BBC’s excellent iPlayer site. I put it off for so long because I was busy. I was able to…
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Unknown Talent
…of bed about nine to entertain myself by surfing the Web for some free music to download. There’s a site where people using a particular piece of music-making software share…
Read More13Jun06 — 54
Putting It Down
…one of my posts yesterday, a compulsive objector, Daniel Davies, accidentally said something illuminating. He claimed to have used the word “pooterish” in his criticism of the document. The comic…
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Annie Lennox: Utter Bollox
I picked up two cheap CDs at Sainsbury’s this evening. I bought Evanescence‘s Fallen on the strength of the single, currently being given away as an MP3 at MP3.com. Giving…
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Flavour of Last Month
The number one declining Google search in April 2003 was: “Al Jazeera“. The number three declining Google search was: “Michael Moore“. All the dirt is at Google Zeitgeist. Share this:…
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“Dr” Death Begins His New Career
If you search the medical literature for “D Counsell”—type “Counsell-D [AU]” into the search box here—half the papers returned have my name on them; the other half carry the name of…
Read More29May04 — 0
I Just Want To Be Your Friend
…hit at Google for the search “Naked Harry Potter”.] One new comment arrived yesterday while I was logged on. Because of this I could check the posting with my referrer…
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Going Down
…for the week ending 27Oct03 Manchester United—displaced as most popular football team search by Arsenal and Real Madrid Britney Spears—from most popular search on the Web to nowhere in a…
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40% Gay; 100% Normal
…things like that.” Andrew Sullivan‘ll be livid [when his Website comes back up]. [*Wrong on all three counts—now that‘s search technology at its finest.] Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
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Kink Of The Month
…lot might know better. UPDATE: For anyone brought here by such a search in the future, Deafs.com might get you closer to your goal. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
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Further Insight Into The British Class System
Someone visited PooterGeek today having been referred here by a search [link not safe for work] on “yacht insurance dot uk dot com” for “spanking boys”. Share this: Facebook Twitter…
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Too Interesting
You can Enhance Your Browsing Experience by installing something called the Google toolbar into your copy of Netscape, Mozilla or [spit!] Internet Explorer. As well has providing a built-in search…
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As Cunning As A Fox Whose Name Is “Cunning”
…the fiendish ingenuity of the “insurgency”? Our finest tacticians must immediately begin research into counter-measures that could prevent this from happening in the future. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
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So Many Ideologies; So Little Reason
I came across SaveTheHumans.com today. It’s a satirical Website with a promising front page manifesto Welcome to savethehumans.com, a magazine of humor, satire, and commentary for people who prefer thinking…
Read More13Oct06 — 1
Homophonic Assault
…for making tubes to clients worldwide, has seen its site utube.com knocked off line by millions of online searchers looking for video site. “It’s killing us,” said Ralph Girkins, president…
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“A new, important, effective way of grieving”
…couple of years on, a US entrepreneur has had the same idea and the result is a similarly Onion-esque report in Wired. Under the headline: MONSTER.COM FOUNDER STARTS SOCIAL NETWORKING…
Read More22Jun04 — 1
WordPress Review [Warning: Geeky Stuff]
…WP will inevitably overtake MT because it is completely open source and you cannot stop open source software from getting better faster than even slightly closed source software. Deal with…
Read More03Aug07 — 6
Off The Grid
…and a tripod. He is trying to open the gate to a field full of sheep by pressing a London Transport Oyster card against the hinge post. A small, smiley…
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Admissions
Marvel at this unintentionally revealing Guardian story about the lengths middle-class parents go to to get their children into church schools. It opens with a Jewish mother admitting that she…
Read More19Dec07 — 4
Tennis/Racket
…someone would cue up a record; and the rest of us would gather round. Neil Peart would open up a track with a fancy fill. Dave would match it precisely,…
Read More30Aug04 — 6
Charlotte Jones Is Everywhere
When I was about 16, Charlotte Jones, now a playwright, beat me in the final of a public speaking competition. Because we were released from the green room to compete…
Read More14Oct04 — 1
Unintended Consequences
…the bush, Joan. What’s going on? Compressed Voice: It’s Secretary of State Schwarzenegger. I’m sure he was joking, but unfortunately the microphone was open. POTUS: Mother of Mary. Tell me…
Read More07Mar06 — 3
Internet Bloody Explorer: Software Written By Bum-heads
…Explorer window, rather than via a proper Web browser like Mozilla or Firefox. Specifically, the sidebar on the right, containing the search box, latest comment roll, and links, has slipped…
Read More19Mar04 — 0
Liddle on Islamophobia
…are justifiably afraid of that difference. We need not fight Islam because, in the long term, it cannot compete with capitalism on a free market planet. It’s wrong, but register…
Read More21Aug03 — 2
Flypaper / Quagmire / Tarpit
Amber* sent a link to a New York Times article [free registration required yakety yakety] about how the United States’ postwar slackness has fostered terrorism in Iraq. She also writes…
Read More21Sep04 — 7
‘Blogging With The Enemy
…tension between, for example, your attitude to the market and your attitude to the family, your authoritarian approach to law and order and your professed commitment to personal freedom. A…
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“Let Them Eat Smoke!”
…and elsewhere, talk of “depriving” smokers of a “freedom” is morally obtuse. When it comes to protecting the disadvantaged from the effects of inequality, superficially “illiberal” evidence-based public health programmes…
Read More18Jul04 — 6
Godzilla Versus Moth-Ra
So far, I’ve had five pieces of non-comment-box correspondence about the “Oliver Kamm Is Getting Sloppy” post. One, from a non-partisan US voter, might best be summed up as “ouch”….
Read More02Nov05 — 9
Dis-missive
In a cunning flanking move, The Guardian responds to my post yesterday by publishing a letter from my Old Labour dad today. How can I sustain my free-thinking, post-Thatcherite, Left…
Read More24Mar13 — 0
The opposite of scholarship
…Times online, it’s worth following the link to the original article that John Rentoul quotes, because anyone can read its opening paragraphs for free. In them Knight observes, as I often…
Read More06Jun06 — 3
Another PooterGeek Post That Will Never Be
…better than their being a stalker/bunny-boiler. I should also point out to those of a “Tax Freedom Day”/libertarian/small-government bent that the Department of Trade Industry produces some superb “common-sense” guides…
Read More07Jan05 — 3
The Third Man Got Away With It
I’ve just sat through the whole of the first in the new series of BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and not one of the so-called comedians on the two…
Read More26May05 — 31
A Man’s Gotta Do
…a lot of work to do. Over the next few weeks something’s got to go and it’s going to be PooterGeek. I’ll keep the comments open for a fortnight or…
Read More28Apr10 — 15
Flocking Hell
…and “negative”) to protect what they believe to be the most important freedom of all, namely the freedom not to have to compete with talented and hardworking people. History shows…
Read More13Apr04 — 0
Dive Dive Dive
…practice, practice, practice (of which more later). And the program comes with so much other free stuff—almost all of which I can actually find a use for: effects, instruments, samples,…
Read More21Jan08 — 1
Index on Censorship
…the weekend. The purpose of this post is to send some of my Google karma to their new URL: “indexoncensorship.org“. If you believe in free speech I recommend that you…
Read More16Aug03 — 2
Tour de Force
…Cambridge for free. What a revelation! Sonya and I joined the throng outside the Guildhall yesterday evening and (after some shockingly un-English touchy-feely stuff so everyone could get to know…
Read More08Apr07 — 1
Citizen Ghale
…racism by ordering schools to teach British values”. Apparently Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, had described the “values we hold very dear in Britain” as “free speech, tolerance, respect for…
Read More29Sep04 — 0
The Lancet Supports Freedom Of Information
Related to my own essay, this week’s Lancet also has an editorial about terrorists and the advantages of keeping genome data free. As you’ll discover if you follow that link…
Read More26Nov03 — 5
Speechification
…left alone to tend the fields they have cultivated since the dawn of time. They had 9/11 coming to them, the bastards. Most people who express sympathy for “militants” have…
Read More31Oct06 — 12
Another Positive Review
…coffee was excellent, the service was friendly, the staff were entertaining, and the music was just fine. They also have free wi-fi and comfy seating. I liked it so much…
Read More11Sep07 — 1
The Temptations
Tom Hamilton complains about being spammed by Naomi Klein’s people, looking for publicity for her latest volume of designer politics. (Exactly as I didn’t with Peter Cook’s book back here,…
Read More29Sep12 — 0
Mistaken Identity
Tom Doran on why capitalism—I think he means free enterprise—has liberated working-class women: When the average voter looks at Tesco, they do not see a sinister corporate megalith, raping and…
Read More27Oct04 — 2
Puddy Tats: Monsanto’s Stormtroopers
When the subject of British public attitudes to genetically modified organisms comes up at Genome Campus breaktime conversations I tend to make two standard contributions. I rail against the “Frankenfood”…
Read More18May06 — 0
Monsieur Henry’s Holiday
…Despite his obvious tristesse, he is tapping a complex counter-rhythm on the steering wheel. THIERRY pulls up at traffic lights and glances across at a woman in a convertible VW…
Read More03Apr23 — 2
Mistakes Have Been Made
…better get on with it, because I’ve just told people on Twitter and they’ve started signing up too. I’ll do some free posts first. If that works, I’ll try making…
Read More19Oct06 — 9
Gissa Job!
…expenses and I’ll throw in forty 6×4 prints, and a CD of medium-resolution scans of the negatives for free. A man can scarcely afford to eat at this kind of…
Read More05Apr07 — 7
Snapshots From My Glamorous Life
Last week, I noticed a registered Brighton & Hove taxi parked outside the Muslim community centre. Prominent on the dashboard was a hardback copy of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion….
Read More15Aug04 — 4
Coming Out
…beer, loudly point out relatives’ character flaws at family gatherings, and complain effectively in shops in order to obtain a better standard of service. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More16Mar07 — 4
Chasing Frisbees
Later, on the Wedding Photography Blog, I’ll be explaining how you can obtain a photo like this yourself, using an old camera, a wind machine, and a stuffed Westie on…
Read More07Oct05 — 1
PooterGeek Snr Writes In Guardian Shocker
…generation”, there’s a letter from my dad displaying geopolitical and musical insight of the calibre that keeps people all over the World coming back to PooterGeek daily: How could EU…
Read More14Sep04 — 0
Everything’s Better In Widescreen
When I went a-hunting for that image of the BBC testcard this morning, I sort of suspected that the Web would be full of Aspies collecting TV transmission-testing arcana. Interested…
Read More11Dec03 — 1
Secular Argument
…of excrement onto the vast whirring turbine blades of a Concorde jet engine. (Don’t forget to check out the Beeb’s unfortunate misspelling of “discreet”.) Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More21Dec04 — 8
Four-Wheel Driven
…fake-apology wave out of the driver’s side window in the vague direction of the spasming victim. The MoFo renders even that gesture completely superfluous. The MoFo comes complete with its…
Read More16Jan06 — 0
More Normal Service Is Resumed
PooterGeek was only intermittently available over the weekend because of network problems. It’s back now—sort of. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More01Aug06 — 5
Crash Team
…there tends to be a common thread to these horror stories: ministers know nothing about IT and civil servants know nothing about IT and the people selling them IT know…
Read More23Nov05 — 7
Well Known Unknown Old Etonians
…whether or not to “come out” as having attended what is considered to be one of the most privileged educational institutions in the World. This is especially important now that…
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I’m A Grumpy Eustonard
…not a transglobal network of offices staffed by a loyal clone army of operatives wearing belted jumpsuits and hard hats. If you are coming to our conference then please order…
Read More14Mar06 — 6
Chef Can’t Stand Heat
…by the Comedy Central network. “He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show.” made me ask myself two questions: Isaac Hayes…
Read More29Dec04 — 1
Fashionista Politics
…on his mobile. He was so bored he had a half-hour-plus conversation with me at cross-network rates. At one point I told him that The Telegraph had recently interviewed one…
Read More27Jan05 — 0
Harsh But Fair
…obtained of massive UK and US mainstream media lying over Iraq. The startling NEW evidence has not come per se from the research of brilliant humanist writers such as John…
Read More09Oct04 — 4
Blood On His Hands
…and their hounding by armies of British and American terrorists had combined to force them to flee to Iraq and, acting in conflict with their devout religious beliefs, commit horrible…
Read More10Mar07 — 2
Crime Doesn’t Pay (Enough Attention To Current Workplace Legislation)
…questions of hiring, even in the wake of the notorious Blood Lane Massacre in which three of your so-called “muscle men” were killed by individuals working for your competitors Network Integrated Gangsta Assurance Solutions plc,…
Read More25Apr06 — 23
I Read Baudrillard, So I Must Be, Like, Rilly Rilly Clever!
…a subversive blow against the Eustonian hegemony by inventing a fake signature for the manifesto: One more thing before I go. Various internet ‘commentators’ have mentioned recently the Euston Manifesto…
Read More13May03 — 0
Saint George
…in peaceful discussions between the various interested local parties over the future of Iraq? They’re grown-ups; I’m sure they can come to some kind of amicable arrangment… Anyway, if you…
Read More30Jun06 — 2
Dipole Moment
Bloke with blog says more interesting things in one post about pressure group Compass than you would find in all of their Chair Neal Lawson’s newspaper articles to date combined….
Read More28Nov03 — 0
Still In One Piece
…to see how your little ones starred in the show, Clare, Hind and Judith, you’ll be able to download the slides that accompanied my talk via my academic page next…
Read More25May04 — 0
Not A Day For Hanging Out Laundry
[WARNING: big download] This is another long overdue one that I didn’t see at the time of the original news story. Boggle at a photo of Mount Etna erupting taken…
Read More25May04 — 0
Have A Strepsil, Mate
…let alone do so with the necessary dramatic conviction. Perhaps that’s one of his greatest talents. The MP3 of that particular performance is available for download. As the Americans say,…
Read More22May05 — 0
Pan-(a)sexual
Via Beth at Mindfull Chatter [sic] I came upon this amazing piece of computer animation. The best version of the 30-second film is the DivX format file [about 8 meg],…
Read More31May07 — 1
Lefties Sell Out
…reading, listening to, and talking with others on the Left whom I disagree with profoundly about matters of life and death—and doing so in a healthy, comradely, and civilized atmosphere….
Read More04Nov03 — 0
Imperial Larder
…[the journal’s Website is currently overloaded again so you’ll have to be patient if you want to download the PDF of the original paper]. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More11Mar04 — 0
Wakka Wakka
…Drug Lord’s daughter’s birthday party. Get Quicktime, download the video, watch and enjoy. Alternatively, you can read an article about the current rash of 70s detective series revivals. Share this:…
Read More29Dec04 — 2
iTunes Revisited
…software that accompanied my sister’s iPod Mini was her not being broadbanded up. It didn’t help that the program kept trying to dial out to download megs of stuff from…
Read More09Apr07 — 9
Love Over Gold
…Sony boombox that I won when I was thirteen in a competition to come up with a new advertising slogan for Pot Noodle™. Dire Straits’ fourth, and possibly second best,…
Read More20Jan07 — 2
Kant, Not Puccini
You can download a series of Glasgow University lectures about Kant on MP3. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More06Sep05 — 0
Home Beauty Care
If you’ve got the bandwidth, this sharp computer-animated film from Taiwan is worth the download. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More25Feb05 — 1
How Many Times?
…or so the only complaints I want to hear from you rabble are if your legitimate comments are being bounced, otherwise please stop griping about the upgrade. I’m a busy…
Read More21Jan04 — 0
Lost in Music
…We have a track [warning: big download! long intro!] coming out on this compilation album at the end of the month. Hop over there and order a copy. It’s only…
Read More18Jul04 — 2
PooterGeek Welcomes The Harry-lanche
A popular, pro-war, Left-wing ‘Blog called “Harry’s Place” linked to PooterGeek this morning and the number of hits I’m getting is scary. It’s lucky you’re not here to download images…
Read More17Feb05 — 1
A Heartwarming Story Of Crime And Punishment
…his action shots of a burglar. The thief had been filmed by the video Webcam that was sitting on top of the four thousand pounds’ worth of computer gear he…
Read More02Sep05 — 1
British Broadcasting Corporation Disappears Up Own Arse
…something that matters and looks fun as well.” Why does this kind of guff immediately make me think of The Fast Show‘s Ron Manager? Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More26Dec04 — 12
Good, Bad, And Mixed
…man’s MILF Zoe Wanamaker. Now the mixed. My brother-in-law bought my sister an iPod Mini for Christmas. The iPod itself is a pleasing object with a smart, if not immediately…
Read More15Jan09 — 4
For Statistical Sneerers Everywhere
…told CNN: “A couple of minutes after taking off we heard a loud bang, the plane shook a bit and immediately we could smell smoke and fire.” Fox News also…
Read More05Dec03 — 1
Why Nerds Are Unpopular
…makes kids miserable, some of them so miserable that they commit suicide. Telling me that I didn’t want to be popular would have seemed like telling someone dying of thirst…
Read More14Jul07 — 4
On The Preservation Of Source Texts
Yesterday morning, I walked out of the building that my flat is in to find that the telephone box immediately outside it had been marked with words along the lines…
Read More27Jul04 — 0
Protect And Survive
…street to a designated assembly point and raise aloft a banner carrying the words “BUSH=HITLER”. Media outlets will send help immediately. [Requirements: transistor radio] Otherwise stay indoors and listen to…
Read More30Mar05 — 4
Oh Happy Day
Now PooterGeek should show a preview of your comment as you type it—on most recent Web browsers—and at the top of this and every other page of the site you…
Read More26Jan06 — 4
Scandalum Magnatum
…garden pool in which I am kneeling. But the comedy antlers that appear to be attached to my head in that photograph were added later by means of digital manipulation…
Read More17Jun06 — 4
When Humourless Lefties Attack
After you’ve read this blog’s harmless and amusing comparison of real college life with co-ed porn movies, check out the comments, where, for no immediately obvious reason, a visitor launches…
Read More03May04 — 0
But Now I See
…seems. There is a small commotion going on in the narrow, car-lined street. Nearest to me, at the front of the fuss, is a taxi, behind it a red sportscar,…
Read More01Sep08 — 6
He Came From Planet Bathos
…feat of the imagination. Anyone, like me, coming to the book fresh, but familiar with last century’s speculative fiction, will be struck immediately by how influential it was. Half the…
Read More27Jul04 — 2
Kamm-ikaze
Oliver Kamm’s latest post about Paul Foot is stonking. One sign of Kamm’s return to (literally) forensic form is the proprietor’s reponse to the “suicide commenting” from Chris Lightfoot that…
Read More01Dec05 — 17
Not To Be Provocative Or Anything…
…quite some time. It’s worth noting that the ‘Blogosphere’s undisputed king of banging on at tedious length about how the advent of ID cards will immediately cause the Earth to…
Read More09Aug08 — 4
I LOVE THE BLACK MUSIC
…comments: white person wearing chinos on cruise ship LOVES THE BLACK MUSIC Which immediately made me think of Stuff White People Like, a blog that’s really about “Stuff That New…
Read More04Dec06 — 0
Blood On The Poolfloor
…horrible and painful. Immediately after it had happened I think I was too concussed to realise the extent of the damage, but I’m lucky that it was as minor as…
Read More25Oct05 — 15
A Long Way For A Bad Joke
[The image jitters, there is a thump as the sound comes on, and a haggard, hair-covered face fills the frame. Veils of windswept snow crystals twist and drift across the…
Read More13May05 — 7
Dial 419 For A Transfer
…respond immediately with your most confidential telephone, fax and cell number and your exclusive bank account particulars so that we can use this information to apply for the release and…
Read More03Mar06 — 2
Fatuous Bint
…I channel the spirit of Dr Rice, a woman rarely deflected from her goal—be it completing a set of core-strengthening reps or convincing a populace that invading a country less…
Read More02May05 — 9
As Hip As A High Court Judge
…train station yesterday evening that said something like: “When someone mentions Jordan, you immediately think of a Middle Eastern country with a 2.5% growth rate. The Economist” Should I feel…
Read More07May04 — 1
Institutional Vanity
…Who’s Who In Science And Engineering. I have no illusions about my professional standing, so my instinct was again to treat the letter as a scam and toss the accompanying…
Read More28Oct04 — 2
Mutual Backslapping
…sounded, if you closed your eyes, like the tuppenceworth thrown in by any old opinionated guest at a dinner party or loudmouthed drinker in a pub.” If you search Google…
Read More03May04 — 0
The Wrong Kind of Sex Icon
Another trawl through my referrer logs reveals that I am sixth highest hit on MSN search for: “gay personal naked webpages pics“ Time to put on my “Why assume I’m…
Read More04Aug04 — 8
A PooterGeek Poll?
…by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that,’ she said. ‘There is this plastic, copycat look evolving and that’s frightening to me. It’s really insane and…
Read More29Jul04 — 2
You Can Type This Stuff…
…this page and read the blurbs as far as you can take it. No, this wasn’t the result of a search for “lesbian” “rap”. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More20Dec08 — 0
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Congratulations to the Web surfer brought here by a search for: “interracial dates that like Radiohead” You have hit the jackpot. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More10Oct04 — 12
Very Scary Indeed
…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”. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More16May06 — 5
The Last Stand?
…This isn’t a soliloquy, you know. I’ve come to kick some luvvie arse and it’s your surprisingly-toned-for-their-age buttocks I intend to apply my built-up supervillain boots to. A motorized wheelchair…
Read More19Jan06 — 5
On Seeing And Not Being Seen
…the other day, the real masters of this kind of photography go completely retro and use rangefinder cameras, of which the most famous are those made by Leica. They aren’t…
Read More21Jul07 — 5
The Pathetic Bookshop
…have all your books on your computer, don’t you?” she asks. “Yes, we do,” he begins, “but we can’t search them by author name.” I bury my face in my…
Read More11May04 — 8
Thrills And Spills
…lacks in style (and his narrator is meant to be an ex military policeman, not a poet) is made up for by his research and plotting; and because he keeps…
Read More09Jul09 — 1
Aussie Supporters As Gracious As Ever
…England’s tail-enders were putting on some cheeky runs, I searched for “Ashes”—which, as you’d expect, has recently become one of the most common words appearing in tweets—and this was the…
Read More10Dec03 — 1
Men, Women, Children and Multitasking
The day before yesterday I had a long chat with Nick about epidemiology, academic fellowships and the nature of vast bureaucracies (the UN, the European Union, or the Medical Research…
Read More21Jul06 — 1
The Onion Does Le Tour
Following Blognor Regis’s coverage of the Hollywood-style comeback of Floyd Landis in the Tour, I did a Google News search for the latest and I found this real story from…
Read More29Dec06 — 12
The Lynx Effect
…too. Naturally the scent search involved some trawling around the Web. One relevant forum I found is here, and one of its main contributors is a man who goes by…
Read More20May08 — 5
Growing Up
…his contemporaries called socialism. (It’s funny, but I can think of few people who would agree with my belief that communism isn’t socialism—outside the early communists. This also explains in…
Read More20Dec06 — 0
Today Britain. Tomorrow The World!
Despite my slack posting there, in the few months since I started it The Wedding Photography Blog has gone to number two hit on Yahoo UK for the search terms…
Read More19Dec06 — 0
Why Rock Pigs Have Groupies And Music Critics Don’t
…the kind of stuff that’s happily ignorant of common courtesy or trying much of anything new musically.“ Stupid, sexist trash for adolescent males? Click on the technorati search for links…
Read More07May08 — 1
“Unpleasant thuglike looking Jew” Also Jungle Bunny
…refund. [p.s. From my recent visitors I see that I am currently high up in the Google search hits for “Boris Johnson albino“—and about to become higher.] Share this: Facebook…
Read More21Jul06 — 6
Test Drive The New Volkswagen Pantheon
…specifically designed to appeal to comprehensive school pupils. Just like the compilers of the OED, the staff of the NUECW welcome submissions from the general public to keep its contents…
Read More25Feb08 — 2
Columnist Sneers At Drunken Fool And Demonstrates His Own Ignorance
…words—at least five of his articles are returned in the top ten hits when you search the Times site—so you’d think he might spare a few seconds to look it…
Read More23Mar09 — 4
Where Are They Now?—Taff Trot / Brummie Schoolboy Edition
…Elvis revivalist Shakin’ Stevens was a closet Red1, I went searching online to find out if he was a member of a late 70s cohort of Communist pop stars hailing…
Read More05Jun03 — 552
Naked Harry Potter
…way.) They were intrigued by the weird success of my Webpages with search engines. This ‘Blog entry is an experiment born of that conversation. I reckon that, within a month…
Read More28Aug03 — 1
Mmmm: Lemony Hamas!
Check this surreal phenomenon out before the Powers That Be fix it! If you search the BBC’s News site for “Arafat“, the first link you pull up takes you to…
Read More20Jun04 — 6
Oi, Dave, No!
…(on which we do research and mobilize our international membership to act) is to work for the release of prisoners of conscience (those imprisoned because of their race, gender, religion,…
Read More02May07 — 0
WedPhotBlog Update
Despite my general slackness, the Wedding Photography Blog is now in the UK top ten for the search terms “photography blog“. Thank you to everyone who helped to put it…
Read More07Feb10 — 3
Unfortunate headlines of the day
…this one: SARAH PALIN CONDEMNS OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY CONVENTION but, Liz Jones’s latest wibble—search for it if you like; I’m not going to link to it—retains its banner:…
Read More05Apr06 — 3
My Problem With UKIP
…branch’s lilac campaign caravan, the completely non-racistly named “Wight Knight”, is the seventh hit for a search on Google Images for my name. Why is this? Share this: Facebook Twitter…
Read More27Dec06 — 8
Not Gay Trousers
Heaven knows why he chose me, but I have been asked by its proprietor to direct some PooterGeek Google karma in the direction of this “queer shirts’n’gifts” site: LGBTees.com, a…
Read More28Sep05 — 4
Is This The Best They Have To Offer?
…boxes. It’s like watching a commercial TV programme from a videotape and skipping over the commercials. At the weekend, I was looking at the Vatican Website (don’t ask—there might be…
Read More25Apr05 — 0
Are You Spanking Who We’re Spanking?
My current guilty pleasure is ToryScum.com. Highlights of the site include their “Sleazy Lover” match-the-Tory-to-the-scandal competition—answers: Cecil Parkinson—Abandoning an illegitimate child John Major—Adultery Harvey Proctor—Spanking rent boys Ian Harvey—Cavorting with…
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Israel But Were Afraid To Ask
…about the dodgy mix. By way of compensation, this episode opens with this classic exchange: JUDITH: “It’s great to talk to you.” ME: “It certainly is.” That’s because I’m AWESOME….
Read More16Aug04 — 0
Chance Would Be A Fine Thing
Today’s main link at the top of the front page of christianity.com says: “Don’t Miss… ‘The Wickedness Of Our Sinful Flesh‘” They are also offering a tape called “Sin In…
Read More13Nov04 — 0
Plugged In Again
Reader, I sent an email this morning, from my email account. If you have been corresponding with me via Gmail recently you can now revert to the counsell.com address. Not…
Read More25Aug04 — 1
A Public Apology To Judith and Arnon
The misspelling “high-acheiver” has scarred your page on counsell.com for months. It even appeared twice! I am so ashamed it hurts. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More27Oct05 — 10
Or You Could Go To The Tate And Look At The Boxes
…Whedon is the third generation of scriptwriters in his family.) Interestingly, Salon.com’s review of Serenity (cheekily reproduced from behind a pay-only barrier here) describes the TV show (as opposed to…
Read More05Sep03 — 0
Fun With Words
Again, thanks to Maoi. Have a smile at Engrish.com. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More11Sep03 — 5
PooterGeek On Ice
Yesterday I transferred from MPhil to PhD status at the Institute of Cancer Research, where I have been registered as a part-time PhD student since Michael Jackson was black. (I…
Read More19Nov12 — 0
Levy & Counsell podcast 2: Special Edition
Judith and I discuss current events in Israel for Ricochet.com. The sound is better all round this time, though it’s clear I’m going to have to work on being a…
Read More01Aug06 — 3
Awkward Casting Problem Solved
From The New York Daily News: “According to the incident report obtained by TMZ.com, [Mel Gibson] embarked on a belligerent, anti-Semitic outburst when he realized he had been busted. “F—–g…
Read More28Dec04 — 0
The Party Of Choice
I picked up this should-be-surprising-but-isn’t catalogue of a wannabe Tory MP’s experiences via PoliticalBetting.com. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More14Sep04 — 0
Subbnormal Service Will Be Resumed
A massive BT (British Telecom) outage in Birmingham isolated my Web hosts from about 12:00 hrs BST yesterday to 03:30 BST today. I’m inferring this from the notch in my…
Read More11May03 — 0
Spring Clean
If you have a moment, hop over to loveandbentspoons.com where I’ve tarted up my photo gallery front page and added more captions to the photos themselves. Please let me know…
Read More19May08 — 1
Jonathan Derbyshire
I’ve converted the archives of Jonathan Derbyshire’s old Typepad blog and built a new WordPress site for him at jonathanderbyshire.com. Update your bookmarks and blogrolls accordingly. (You can email him…
Read More04Dec12 — 0
Levy & Counsell podcast 4: National Manners, International Diplomacy, and Statehood at the United Nations
Over at Ricochet.com, our producer Scott named this podcast The Politics of Petulance after an article of the same name by David Horovitz in the Times Of Israel that Judith and I mention towards the end…
Read More31Dec06 — 0
Sullivalanche
…me via my professional site, Sepial.com. Yes, I will travel to your country club in Westchester County to record your New York Times-featured, Cecil B DeMille-scale engagement party on film. Share this:…
Read More27Apr10 — 1
“There is an appropriate use for paper”
…I reckon offices without paper are going to become more common more quickly than cars that fly. Indeed, we do seem to be printing fewer digital documents, to the extent…
Read More06May04 — 0
Two Years Is A Long Time In Showbusiness
…Eliot Spitzer’s office. It found that many performers and writers had not received royalties because the music companies had been negligent about maintaining contact with them. The record companies had…
Read More19Jun06 — 5
Mad Marketing
…have seen many of the photos on show here or on my other sites like Sepial.com. My initial aim is to elevate Sepial’s Google karma in advance of the site’s…
Read More27Jan04 — 0
Rebel Without The Balls
Commenting on the way Mike Rowe eventually rolled over when instructed by Microsoft‘s attack lawyers to hand over his MikeRoweSoft.com domain, one Farker wrote: “DAMN THE MAN! FIGHT THE POWER!…
Read More04May04 — 0
Best Memorial Service Speech Ever
…isn’t with God. He’s fucking dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s fucking dead.” [courtesy of Fark and SFGate.com] Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More22Jan04 — 2
Let Me Count the Ways
…filled with an ocean of (no doubt computer-generated) sails. My companion: “That’s a lot of ships.” My reply: “Yes, a thousand.” My companion: “Huh?” Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More22Sep06 — 5
Substitute
…“Wife’sGone.Com“, whose general message seems to be: “Okay, so you don’t have a missus any more, but at least you can afford to buy some boys’ toys (oh yeah, and…
Read More13Jan04 — 0
Taking Religious Orders
They’re gen-yoo-ine Cistercian monks and they’ll sell you a printer refill. Slashdot (and just about every other online media outlet) draw(s) our attention to the LaserMonks. TwinCities.com has the best…
Read More20Aug07 — 1
The Sounds That Taste Forgot
Last week I discovered JasonHare.com, a blog full of trivia about the sort of music that only kids in high street electrical shops will admit to liking. Hare is obsessed…
Read More31Mar05 — 2
Snapped Up
…the ‘roll over the next couple of weeks. Send your bribe pledge to [this ‘Blog’s name] at gmail.com and I’ll see what I can do for you. Share this: Facebook…
Read More14Jun03 — 0
Young Minds
…have used computers for years you are not afraid to try things. Many adults are very afraid of computers. Kids simply explore and enjoy them. I think Gen X’ers get…
Read More02Sep05 — 0
“Poo” By Name
I am told by PooterGeekers, including the currently-one-armed Hot Wheels Helena, that they come here by typing “poo” into their Web browsers and letting auto-complete do the rest. Be careful…
Read More08Jun03 — 0
Gun—sorry—Geek For Hire
…book Loose Lips. [Have I mentioned it enough times, now?] Yesterday evening, it briefly reached about 1400 in the amazon.com bestseller chart. It can go in my portfolio of Web…
Read More30Jan05 — 1
Clap Clap Clap
The “file not found” error message on counsell.com features Maryam, the daughter of my friend Nicholas, whom I last saw when I turned up one week early for his and…
Read More18Jun06 — 8
Barawque’n’Roll!
…and a window open so that the breeze blows through the cascading ringlets of your bubble-perm wig. For some reason the guitarist keeps his face hidden throughout. My guess is…
Read More07Feb06 — 0
Thank Heaven For Little Boys
…with the Sunday Herald, Wolf spoke publicly for the first time about her vision. Her comments will spark a theological skirmish in the United States and leave her open to…
Read More11Sep07 — 0
Lesson One
When I tore open the plastic envelope containing my latest copy of The Economist there was a flyer inside advertising Felix Dennis‘s How To Get Rich: The Distilled Wisdom Of…
Read More18Oct06 — 1
Proprietary
I’ve met and had a couple of interesting conversations with the Director of the Oxford Internet Institute so I’m sure he’s sharp enough to appreciate the irony of his compiling…
Read More16Nov05 — 8
The True Story Of A Breach Of The Geneva Conventions
[Location: Fallujah, I-raq. Dateline: November 2004; well past your bedtime. US Rangers and special forces operatives advance on a complex of residential buildings believed to be crawling with the enemy….
Read More17May05 — 4
Ethnic Aesthetics
…respectively to characteristics of humans’ own groups and to those of neighbouring groups—just as when we learn to communicate verbally we refine our ability to identify particular combinations of sounds….
Read More05Dec05 — 7
Rugged Defiance
…that is. Muhaha. Muhaha-ha-ha-ha. Muhaha-ha-ha-ha-ha Hah-ha-ha-ha! Igor! The time has come to reveal our other celebrity guest and open the tank! [A tarpaulin falls from above to expose CALISTA FLOCKHART…
Read More10Apr08 — 7
Gravy / Train
Last week I travelled oop North to Wigan—TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE OF OUR POUNDS STERLING for a Standard Open Return on a smart, modern, and nausea-inducing Virgin Pendolino. There,…
Read More05Jun07 — 5
Einstürzende Neubauten
…if he had originally said it, it would have been doubly untrue. Over the past few weeks, a gas company—or rather its small constellation of contractors—has been digging up my…
Read More28Nov05 — 15
You Turn Your Head For Five Minutes…
…(and anyone else who was trying to get in touch). I heard your messages and will get back to you. PooterGeek was crawling with comment spam this morning and I’ve…
Read More30Oct03 — 0
Cambridge: The Excitement Continues
Driving in to work along open, tree-lined country roads this week I’ve felt like one of those square-jawed “executives” in a car advertisement. Around here the countryside rolls like a…
Read More23May05 — 3
Beardy-Weirdies
Reading that thing on The Guardian site about Roman soldiers wearing socks and open-toed sandals, I was reminded that this week is the Cambridge Beer Festival. To enjoy the whole…
Read More23May05 — 5
Oh, The Stupidity!
…Chancellor Gordon Brown has said. Buyers would have to raise as little as half the cost of homes sold on the open market, he said. The remaining equity in the…
Read More16May07 — 4
Like Radio 4 Listeners
The last time I tinkered ever so slightly with the layout of PooterGeek the email and comment complaints were such that I gave up and returned to the current look….
Read More29May04 — 3
Charred Teddy Bears
…cultivated. Large segments of the population lived outside cities, and warfare typically occurred in flat, open terrain. Such battlefields–the stomping grounds of warriors from Sun Tzu to Napoleon–are becoming scarcer…
Read More28May04 — 0
Wait A Minute, Mr Postman
The following is perfectly timed to coincide with this story (which the Normalizer commented on) and an item I heard on Radio 2 news today, about a Staffordshire postie who…
Read More10Jul06 — 2
It’s Like Watching…
Isolated a talented striker up front. Lost possession cheaply. Couldn’t score from open play. Vulnerable defending set-pieces. Star player sent off for violent conduct. Beaten on penalties. Who says England…
Read More16Nov06 — 9
Another Urban Myth Busted
Regular drivers of cars live in terror of flying on commercial airlines. People deadlock their front doors at night to keep out violent burglars and then die of smoke inhalation…
Read More16Nov04 — 4
Running On Empty
…Chariots of Fire again this year, but he ballsed up by submitting the entry form (that I had completed for him) too late for the entry deadline. Last Thursday Tony…
Read More04Nov08 — 1
Those Beige Headlines In Full
TIGER WOODS WINS 2008 US OPEN DESPITE KNEE INJURY CAUSED BY ILLEGAL KARATE ATTACK FROM EVIL MAFIA GOLFER ROCCO MEDIATE. OBTAINS CRUCIAL PAR SCORE ON SUDDEN-DEATH HOLE USING “CRANE KICK”…
Read More14Oct04 — 3
Not A Photo Of A Cat
This is not open for debate. My niece is cute. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More31Mar06 — 7
In The Dating Arena
…most of it talking to the organisers—one male, one female. WOMAN ORGANISER: We had too many come to the last one and people were complaining that they could hardly move,…
Read More13Mar03 — 0
Economists
…browser’s ability to open new windows with JavaScript or you will be plagued by a thousand pop-ups. You’ll need to have Flash installed to appreciate the full glory of this…
Read More04Apr06 — 0
Slight Technical Problem
…of complaints I aim to provoke. I may have to come up with a nicer way of referring to UKShells in my subject categories. Open an account with them. They…
Read More24Jul10 — 0
Moral Philosophers Of Our Time
…in an open letter, blaming her for causing “untold suffering and anguish”. He claims it was her lies that turned Moat into a monster – and goaded him into launching…
Read More08Mar07 — 24
Say It Loud: I’m Chippy And Proud
…reasons to those nearer the bottom: because they are afraid that the limits of their ability will be exposed by open competition, that they or their children might be displaced…
Read More14Dec05 — 1
Strange Day
…had to pass the keys out through the window to a mechanic at local garage who got a passenger-side door open) and ended with my applauding in the middle of…
Read More30Jul08 — 3
Cliquey Back-Slapping
…I’m at it, Tom Freeman makes a good point well here. Admittedly, Tories complaining about the social divide between neighbours in Westminster is something of an open goal for anyone…
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Arthropods
…he knew then what we know now. I overheard the following through an open, gentrified front door while walking home yesterday. An early-middle-aged drabbie was calling up to her husband,…
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Anastacia By Numbers
…studio complex for the main chorus, introduced by a Tyrannosaurus rex drum fill: “I-Y-AM A SHOUTY SHOUTY WOMAN!” apocalyptic drum crescendo super-anguished verse: “You beat me, cheat me, use your…
Read More23Apr04 — 0
Two Nations Divided By A Meat Cleaver
…sidecar a mile or two over the speed limit along an open, straight stretch of ‘A’ road somewhere in the home counties. Their faces say: “If we came round to…
Read More25Mar05 — 1
Senior Conservative Ratners His Party
…company has done it in such a spectacular fashion that it left business observers open-mouthed. Barclays chief executive Matt Barrett candidly criticised his own product, suggesting that the astute consumer…
Read More18Apr04 — 3
Success Teaches You Nothing
…I also confused him with someone else—to open up a discussion with me about his approach to philosophy, based around my objections. I think I might borrow from The Professor‘s…
Read More12Oct04 — 1
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,…
Read More09Aug07 — 20
Lightly Worn
…for a living know this. He was reading for show. His ostentatious “studiousness” grated on me. He was behaving like a schoolkid with his face up against open pages, trying…
Read More01Jan07 — 6
Sex-u-a-lity
…hanky-panky already.” Neo smiles, opens the garment up further, and declares camply, “I know! It’s completely lined!” On a related note, check out at least one of the episodes Chad…
Read More08Jul04 — 0
Goo Goo Ga Ga
…Google runs open source software. It has a sense of humour. It has the best philosophy of any dotcom yet: “You can make money without doing evil.” (a philosophy I…
Read More09Jan05 — 0
In The Interests Of Balance
…conspiracy, but I’m not so sure; the best way to turn voters off the Tories is just to let Howard open his mouth and get on with telling them what…
Read More24Mar04 — 0
Western Reviewed
Open Range is an excellent film, well acted. It’s slow and has a couple of unfortunate structural flaws, but it features at least one awesome, crunchingly realistic gunfight. Robert Duvall…
Read More31May03 — 0
Fancy a Shag?
…Italy, a year or so ago and being overwhelmed, by comparison, with the green soft beauty of this country’s landscape. One thing I hate about Britain is its drinking “culture”….
Read More30Dec04 — 1
Post Office Counters
Good morning, Mr McKafka. Mr Counsell, we meet again. Not very often, what with your window only opening for business minutes at a time on days of the week with…
Read More08Jan07 — 6
Lifting Airs
…collapse of the capitalist system as we know it. Anyway, today as I arrive at the entrance I hold the door open for a woman coming out of the building…
Read More06Oct04 — 11
New Labour Censorship
…linked here commenting specifically on this strange phenomenon. Admittedly, PooterGeek is not a forum for free speech. I have deleted thousands of spam comments, suppressed one libel directed at someone…
Read More26Jan05 — 5
A Day In The Life
…is Benjy. Benjy: You LIE. I am ANON, crusader for TRUTH and JUSTICE. PG: Nice cape, Benjy. Leasey: Are these weirdos coming to the cinema with us? Sissy: “Sissy”! “weirdos”!…
Read More24Mar05 — 0
There’s The Rub
Backword Dave points to a reason why I might not want to have my photo taken with the Leader of the Free World. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More21Jul04 — 2
Lunchtime Questions For PG's American Readers
…he said in it at some length—with my “serious” hat on—but that requires concentration and some work-free time. Right now, I need to consult you people about something more pressing….
Read More11Mar09 — 2
Noblesse blancmange
For some lucky and rich people who describe themselves as Left-wing, one of the worst things about free markets is that they have given the oiks the freedom to enjoy…
Read More26Apr04 — 0
Double-Platinum Double Standard
…Joni Mitchell‘s fault. Streams-of-consciousness are fine if you they are original and/or insightful, but, like free verse, a non-rhyming/structureless lyric had better be bloody interesting or it ain’t worth our…
Read More10Oct04 — 4
The Unfreeing Of The American Press
…intended. Here’s what happened and why it should concern you.” UPDATE: Tom provides a registration-free link to a PDF of the article. Thanks, Tom. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More26Jul08 — 2
Eternal Prurience Is The Price Of Liberty
…a gay Jew: A businessman has won £22,000 libel damages from a school friend who made false accusations against him by creating a fake profile on Facebook, the social networking…
Read More31Jan05 — 9
Crystal Balls
…in free democracies divine with such frequency and confidence), and about predictions. You may think the election in Iraq was a triumph for reason and freedom over the forces of…
Read More20Apr04 — 0
The Generation Game
Judith tips us off to the delights of Hezbollah TV, as reported in the New York Times [free registration blah-de-blah]. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More13Nov17 — 0
Film Review: The Space Between Us (2017)
…it. If, however, you aren’t prejudiced against laid back romcoms or kid-friendly coming-of-age films, there are many small pleasures to take from it, especially if you’ve ever had a relationship…
Read More06Oct04 — 5
Nerr Nerr Nerr-Nerr Nerr
…“How can I be ‘anti-Semitic’, eh, when Arabs are Semites too?”, “So tell me, how is anyone is supposed to make money from software that’s free?”, “We were the ones…
Read More09Apr04 — 0
“Judeo-Christian”
There’s a thoughtful, topical and free article over at The Economist at the moment, all about the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. (Following on from my rant about The Passion,…
Read More19Apr04 — 2
It’s That Time Again
First PooterGeeker (anywhere in the World) to comment on this ‘Blog entry gets a free subscription to The London Review of Books. (Given its editorial line on The Issue of…
Read More27Dec03 — 0
A Gift For Précis
Savapoint is a source for cheap software and hardware. Even before the savings on sales prices, the Savapoint Website provides completely free entertainment for visitors. Some of the perfunctory descriptions…
Read More18Aug05 — 5
The Corruption Of Innocent Girls By Permissive American “Culture” Continues
…makes me want to laugh out loud in joy at the possibilities of life in the free world. Yee-ha! What do you think, Ruhollah? Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More17Jul04 — 1
An Unpaid For Plug
…as Peru, weighing up to three kilos (seven pounds). Take out a three-year subscription now! You get unlimited personal access to the online edition free. Read it from cover to…
Read More17Jul07 — 3
Unseen Square Footage
…encouragingly. But in the end I decided not to do it. Today I was shocked to see a thread on Comment Is Free where some of the comments were worth…
Read More13Apr04 — 0
Feeding The Crocodile
…versions of articles published online for free. Following a banner from the latter page, I couldn’t help but think that, with a name like that, “Wolf Blitzer” couldn’t be a…
Read More12Nov08 — 2
Ooh, That’s A New One
Last year, Newsbiscuit ran a spoof “NEWSPAPERS RUN OUT OF ‘LORD LEVY IS JEWISH’ EUPHEMISMS” story [requires free registration] I was reminded of it when I read this from the…
Read More16Jul04 — 18
Oliver Kamm Is Getting Sloppy
…in the world in terms of power. And that’s why we’ve got to be humble and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom. We’re a freedom-loving nation. If…
Read More20Jun08 — 1
Bag Lady Collects Spare Change
…and jewellery designed to free them of their excess cash. The “Gigantique” bag for instance, is larger than any other general-purpose bag in the game currently, but will lighten your…
Read More06Jan07 — 0
Euston Manifesto Blog
…invites civil debate about them. So far posts have been contributed by Jeremy Brown of Who Knew?, Alan Johnson of Labour Friends of Iraq, Jeff Weintraub, and me. Feel free…
Read More11Jul04 — 3
Eng-er-lish
This one is mainly aimed at my American posse. Shouts out to you all, brothers and sisters. This piece in The Telegraph [probably requires free registration] begins as typical Sunday…
Read More14Sep06 — 4
Yes, It’s Bloody Safe
…I tell you what would reduce my stress levels: people not believing this stuff. Completely made-up statistics show that a reduction of ten percent in my exposure to evidence-free hokum…
Read More26Jul04 — 0
Singapore Descends Into Anarchy
…can now buy (sugar-free) chewing gum (if you register with a pharmacist first). And they are becoming more relaxed about homosexuality “after researchers found that cities with high concentrations of…
Read More13Feb07 — 2
Poot Toots
…Sesame Forum will be supporting Joe Lee Wilson on the first day, Friday 23Feb07. Apparently Wilson has: a free and resonant baritone, soaring through a three octave range with command…
Read More08Jan04 — 2
Putting A Stop To It
…to write clearly, but no one gives them the chance. Instead, in English language lessons, they are asked to compose free-form poetry about war or try to write a news…
Read More28Apr04 — 0
“He doesn’t hate the United States.”
I missed this story [Washington Post free registration, yadda yadda] about a Saudi student on trial in the US from earlier in the month entirely, but Philip Greenspun didn’t and…
Read More21Aug07 — 7
Unpickupable
…collects these things too, or you found something similarly mystifying on Amazon then do feel free to add your own examples in the comments. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More24Sep05 — 19
You Can’t Get The Staff
…time to avoid removing the vehicles’ wing mirrors. Commenter casualsavant will testify to my near complete failure to take advantage of the sights here, but when I’ve been rowing and…
Read More21Oct06 — 3
…Then There’s Mike Selvey…
…of some lively disagreement afterwards. I’m sure Selvey is charming in person, but his written output annoys me so much that, if someone offered me one free custard pie throw…
Read More01Aug13 — 1
A Femi-narcissist reader
…has to be said, take offence quite ostentatiously—come from the other time-rich section of Twitter, from the not-very-productive cultural elites who have in recent years almost completely decamped from the…
Read More07Aug04 — 0
The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers
“Tigger ‘fondled my breast’” is a classic tabloid headline and, fortunately for Michael Chartrand, contains a classic tabloid lie [free Telegraph registration required]. Disney might be re-employing him, but I…
Read More08Jul03 — 0
I Call It Killing
…that I would have been so thorough if I it had been about Saddam Hussein’s crimes against humanity. People were killed to free Iraq. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
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House Of Pain
…Bet the Democrats wish they had such a divided opposition to deal with. [Free registration required; contains parochial British politics that may render overseas readers unconscious.] Share this: Facebook Twitter…
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Bringing It All Back Home
Maoi reads the New York Times [free registration, rhubarb, rhubarb] and sends us more strangeness (to Western eyes) from the East. (And we’re going to Mars.) Share this: Facebook Twitter…
Read More07Dec03 — 0
Flurry of Articles
…In the meantime here’s some more ephemeral stuff. Judith sent me a link to the NYTimes [free registration, blah blah] where they cover women having foot surgery in order to…
Read More19Feb05 — 9
It’s Academic Now
…(which requires better salaries). PG …which requires the government to free the universities from the HEFCE “we-fund-your-teaching-on-the-basis-of-your-research” model and/or needs academics in the good universities to have the balls to…
Read More09Mar07 — 2
It’s All In The Hanging
…black Formula 1 racing driver”. (Wikipedia points out that the history’s a bit more complicated than that.) Mr Brincklow composed and performed the soundtrack to the film, which will also…
Read More07Mar07 — 9
The European Confession
…even if I hadn’t been looking at a bleak wedding-job-free winter. The consultancy won the contract. Because of this I have been doing some freelance work for them recently. This…
Read More27Jul04 — 4
PooterGeek User Survey
Lately, the number of unique visitors to PooterGeek has settled into the low hundreds. Unfortunately this increase in traffic necessitates small changes in the previous free-and-easy regime here. As part…
Read More22Apr05 — 0
Thirtysomething
Hi, Olivia. It’s Damian here. Er, I was wondering if you might be free for lunch on Thursday. We could, um, discuss… “…Sex”? It’s always the same with you professional…
Read More08Sep05 — 8
Suppressing Dissent
…the ranks of discounted paperbacks, ready to freeze this pleasing vista for you, my loyal reader. Instantly a scrawny media studies graduate type with a glued-on-doghair beard and a headset…
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A Little Miracle
…ordered the CD single, despite the whole thing being available free online via Real Player here. [Brace yourself for Ms Clarkson’s scary Photoshopped-white teeth.] Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
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Evolutionary Arms Race Update
Meanwhile, embarrassed by the cats, the chimpanzees get in on the act [requires free registration]. (Note that most of the chimp spear-carriers are female.) Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
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The Femi-narcissists
…she had been a TV executive at the corporation. For her, the aspect of the crimes under investigation most worthy of comment wasn’t the physical and mental suffering of scores…
Read More01Jun06 — 3
Euston Email Of The Day
…as to why this 47 storey building basically undamaged collapsed in free fall particularly when owner Larry Silverstein is recorded as saying he pulled building 7.Demolition terminology for implosion. st911.org…
Read More12Feb05 — 1
Golden Farewell
Look at the photograph accompanying this article about the removal of HP’s former CEO Carly Fiorina. Try to keep your mind free of these words: “You are the weakest link….
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Excuses, Excuses
…me wearing it and instantly fall in love. How am I supposed to sustain my free-marketeering, neo-con, libertarian, reptilian reputation with friends like these? Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More06Feb05 — 0
In Installation Hell
I am quiet because I am busy fixing a computer. Sorry everyone. I did take a brief break on Friday evening. During that interval I watched two young women hit…
Read More14Aug07 — 1
First Post!
…to Adolf Blair and the PC brigade. Over at another blog I don’t read often, Comment Is Free, Rory Maclean (or perhaps a sub-editor, not inaccurately summing up his post)…
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Hindsight Makes Us All Geniuses
Judith draws our attention to a very smart piece from the New York Times [free registration, your home is at risk if you default on a loan secured on it,…
Read More21Apr06 — 9
By The Way
Thank you to Pete in the comments and to everyone else who’s been sending kind wishes. It’s good to be alive on days like these. I hope eventually everyone will…
Read More04Jun07 — 0
Netherlands
To my immense amusement, I am quoted in a national Dutch free daily newspaper today, saying (of the Euston Manifesto): “We had no idea it would get so big”. Share…
Read More30Aug12 — 0
Mittigation
…personal antipathy: Now that he’s officially the Republican nominee for president and has an excellent chance of becoming the most powerful man in the world, I feel free to admit,…
Read More27Apr10 — 5
Oops, Odone Again
…free school Given that the Daily Telegraph always does its best to keep its circulation up (along with the circulations of retired red-faced colonels) with its notorious titillating inside-front-page provincial…
Read More04Jun04 — 1
Big And Dumb
…afternoon, I compounded this classic error by going to ASDA, grocers to Britain’s underclass and subsidiary of the USA’s Wal-Mart. This is Cambridge ASDA, of course, so our chavs have…
Read More18May05 — 3
A Case For Dylan
…bit of frustration with hippiedom. Here are a few money quotes from an article in Japan Today: “The world was absurd … I had very little in common with and…
Read More01Sep03 — 2
I’ll Get My Coat
…attention to free superhero desk decoration than just pointing at the Website. If it was a true story I’d have used the first person. Besides, don’t you know that women…
Read More02Sep04 — 18
What Would Make You Vote Tory?
…openly competitive British industry (and, incidentally, help the surprisingly Anglo pharma industry escape the creeping research and development paralysis caused by growing thickets of bad patents). Legalize (that is make…
Read More30Aug03 — 3
Self Demotion
Last time I was interviewing candidates for a job I had my “girl compensator” turned up quite high. In The Telegraph today Anne Robinson explains what I mean. [Free registration…
Read More18Mar06 — 2
Norm Referencing
…known entities throughout the infinite cosmos. While communicating with these entities, however I imagined existence to be, Norm actualized fantasy communications with that mode of existence. So at the end…
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Now I’m In Business
Currently my photography work is booming—so much so that I don’t even have time to tart up my commercial Website as I have been planning to for months. I’d like…
Read More27May04 — 0
Admitting Uncertainty
…a “chemical-free garden”. It didn’t explain how you could cultivate imaginary plants in a high vacuum, the only way of achieving such a feat. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More22Aug03 — 4
In No Man’s Land
…these articles than they usually would expect. My friends on the other (Claire, Judith, Adam…) might find they agree too. There’s no common ground in the “Holy” Land. Is there…
Read More01May07 — 2
Size Matters
…you should have a browse through the literature on sperm competition. In the case of ducks, that promiscuity is not necessarily the females’ choice, so they discriminate between mates by…
Read More30Nov04 — 2
Rise Up And Walk Again
If this is real it’s amazing. UPDATE: The site I linked to has free registration, but you could have a browse through these to see if you can find a…
Read More12May05 — 13
Generation G In “Night Of The Teenage Voter”
…of Jack’s cohort, I’d probably come up with something like this: They were born between ’85 and ’95. They take a completely unembarrassed delight in everything about that decade that…
Read More19May07 — 10
Surely Another Joke?
I very, very rarely bother with “Comment Is Free” here. It’s one of the wrongest things about The Guardian these days. But I’ve just read an irresistible article. In it,…
Read More09Jan08 — 12
The Last Single Man On Earth
…member of was desperate for more men to attend a drinks do. Apparently lots of women had registered, but not as many men, so they were offering us free entry….
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“It Isn’t War”
…it.] Killer fact: after his second term as President of the United States, U. S. Grant travelled to Sunderland, where he opened the first free municipal library in England. Share…
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Mystorian/Historian
…to the 30Jan04 edition [not free online] should be given to students as an example of how to smother reason with fashionable polysyllabic flannel. Here are a couple of snippets:…
Read More09May05 — 18
Freedom Is Messy
…design”. It is as sleek as a yak. a yak I have complained (to outrage from the iPoderati) about the problems I had using iTunes, the computer software that comes…
Read More24Apr07 — 10
Unrepresentative Sampling
…School.” “We don’t make our own soup.” “My husband thinks opera is silly.” And as for national children’s television: watching it, most newcomers to this country would come to the…
Read More08Jul09 — 0
The Smell Of Home
…lovely letter which ties together two of my most recent PooterGeek posts. It appeared on the Daily Mail Website in response to the latest comments from Bernie Ecclestone: He’s not…
Read More19Aug04 — 18
You May Now Turn Over Your Papers
Advanced Level Broadsheet Columnism: Section 1 Choose any one question. You have 45 minutes to complete and file your answer for sub-editing. How arrogant exactly is George W. Bush? Support…
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The Bottom Line
…non-subscribers. It opens robustly: “More even than Iraq, or hospital superbugs, the issue in the UK election most obscured by political rhetoric is immigration. Some of the myths deserve to…
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Jesuits Go Boldly
…idea that the universe is worth studying is a Christian idea. The whole mechanism for studying the physical universe comes straight out of the whole logic of the scholastic age….
Read More26Jun06 — 5
Idle Hands
…know I am in the final stages of completing my work on combining both Archimedes and epuiangular spirals into one method. This will expose the flaw within science and demonstrate…
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Finally The Vietnam Analogy Comes Into Its Own
…image of seven-foot beige people trying to make sense of the scoreboard [free New York Times registration]. Harry, of Chase Me Ladies, claimed that he was being kept up all…
Read More23Mar06 — 3
George’s Problems Solved
George Szirtes complained recently of PooterGeek looking even weirder than usual on his old Mac. This was fixed by installing the free version of this Web browser. It also improved…
Read More21Mar03 — 0
Pack Up Your Troubles
…an allied attack before, perhaps they are a little better informed about the future than some of those criticizing military intervention from their armchairs in the free West. Share this:…
Read More31Dec05 — 5
Lessons In Pop Culture (Re)learned This Christmas
…do these things trivially on my own machine—and the necessary software is completely free. Gah! Talking of braindead digital media rights management, ladies and gentlemen, I give you The New…
Read More11Dec05 — 8
Working Out
One month’s free personal training with my new gym membership and the need for structure in my life have turned me into something of an obsessive. The very helpful staff…
Read More08Aug05 — 2
Bombers Are People Too
…my precious Muslim Bruddah? Let me come home if you miss me I would even let Ken Livingstone kiss me Wait a minute, marines are coming! Our great leader’s off…
Read More06Sep06 — 6
Guest Post: The Truth About Empire
…People like 45-year-old Darth Vader who was given free medical care after been callously tossed into a pit of molten lava by the “great Jedi warrior” Obi Wan Kenobi. “All…
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A (James) Blunt Message To A Subset Of Womankind: You Might Be Beautiful, But She Isn’t, I’m Not, And Your Manners Certainly Aren’t
…and spoken-for (and in the company of her beau) and I replied from my permanent state of cynicism about humanity: “If I’m so cute, how come I can’t get a…
Read More31Aug06 — 1
The Future Of Darfur And The Future Of The Left
…It’s free and there will be three speakers on the subject: “Darfur: An Urgent Case for Humanitarian Intervention”. Follow the link to email us for tickets. This is probably also…
Read More29Jun04 — 0
Militant Accountants Against The Occupation
…crusaders’ dog lackeys are crushed can we secure the transparent audit that God has willed!” [Article may require free registration. Keep from direct sunlight.] Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
Read More30Dec05 — 3
A Gift-Giving Warning
Last year or the year before, following a request on PooterGeek for you lot to suggest somewhere I might buy a bridge computer for my dad for Christmas, I ordered…
Read More23May03 — 0
Un-sophist-icated
…of the summer season at the cinema—her irony free comment: When did summer become a dirty word to those of us who love movies? When did critical consensus become totally…
Read More20Mar04 — 0
Browned Off
…Gordon Brown has completely outflanked the Tories. [Since it’s the London Times there’s no free access for you dirty foreigners, but then you probably don’t care that much about the…
Read More21Sep04 — 0
Google Bible
…it appears in print. In summary, it’s good enough that I would have paid for it if they hadn’t given me a free copy. Share this: Facebook Twitter Email Reddit…
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An Ally At Last
…and Romans. You might have to register (for free) with The Spectator site to view the article, but it’s worth the minor inconvenience involved. Here’s my original post, by the…
Read More23Jun04 — 4
Festival Round-Up
…to have completely lost it. There’s no need to drift off into a “bloody long-haired hippies with their drugs and wailing pop music” tirade to make the case against “Glasto”….
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Doing It In Style
…though I certainly wouldn’t be ashamed to do so. N is an old-school, self-taught computer whizz with an interesting life history. I know him through H, his partner, who drove…
Read More19Jun07 — 2
Totalitarian Political Nanny Statism Gone Mad
Over at Samizdata, California is becoming a “totalitarian” state because an overwhelming majority of the residents of the city of Berkeley voted for comprehensive regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,…
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About PooterGeek
…the “Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomic Research”—or something). Because I wanted people who were searching for technical publications written by me to be able to find them easily, I blogged…
Read More14Mar04 — 0
Bang To Rights
…of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit? An apology, maybe? Counselling? Champagne? Compensation? Well, if you’re David Blunkett, the Labour Home Secretary, the choice…
Read More09Sep04 — 19
“Read By People In Museums”
…paper being published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. [You might need to register for free to read it.] I haven’t got the time to comment now, but I wouldn’t be…
Read More27Mar08 — 2
It’s That Time Of Year
…I’d like to experiment a bit with some new techniques on non-paying jobs (and burn up a few rolls of out-of-date and unusual film). If you have an event coming…
Read More03Nov03 — 2
Positives and Negatives
Regular PooterGeekers have probably registered free for The New York Times already. It might be worth it for newcomers to do so too, so they can read its Onion-esque headline…
Read More15Jun04 — 6
The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
…the roll of annoying 80s has-beens competing for a timeshare on another fifteen minutes is the neck-snappingly overrated Morrissey [helpful of them to name his official Website “MorrisseyMusic“], the one…
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Get Out. Get Ahead.
Thomas Friedman has some advice for the Israelis today. PooterGeek’s Israel correspondent’s on it. [May require free registration with the New York Times; contains small moving fonts; not suitable for…
Read More04Jul05 — 12
Short People
…that I had to one of the performances in the film turned out to be completely unfounded. Everyone wants to pick at the master’s vision. The New York Times review…
Read More09Sep04 — 9
Things I Want To Do With PooterGeek
…cloning, and then state my own case on the subject—before opening up the comments for general debate. I want to import many unconverted old posts from previous versions of PooterGeek….
Read More23May07 — 4
Pull Up To The Bumper
…new law that would see a 50 euro fine to any car spotted “stopping traffic” by accosting a lady of the night. About one hundred protesting prostitutes marched on Padua…
Read More19Dec04 — 1
American Arthouse
…tell us why this of all your works has attracted so much pre-release media attention. Well, although The Smoking Tanngoliabees has a lot in common with some of my other…
Read More24Sep03 — 0
He Wasn’t There Again Today
This used to be today’s page of PooterGeek, Damian Counsell’s Web journal. It isn’t now, but might be again in about a year’s time (2005?). Please feel free to browse…
Read More14Oct08 — 0
Credit Crunch Leads To Balance-Of-Satire Surplus
…that, as an institution, it continues to provide a useful, ongoing threat without actually blowing things up.” The Daily Mash is a free online site. The Guardian is a national…
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