Worst U.S. presidential election headline for, er, at least three days: “GAP WIDENS BETWEEN CANDIDATES ON IRAQ, PARKS“
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10Aug04 — 1
Explosions In Turkish Capital
In the last couple of hours there’ve been reports of two bombs exploding in Istanbul. UPDATE from Claire: Two dead, seven injured.
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What Can You Say?
Claire emailed me this entry for the anti-Semitism Olympics. If you can only stomach an abbreviated version, Norm picked it up too.
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“…And A Box Of Swan Vestas, Please”
[Another oldie, I’m afraid] I used to work in a corner shop. In my day the 12-year-olds who came in were, of course, little bastards, but they didn’t have sawn-off shotguns. If they had, I’d have been proud to have dealt with them like this: “CCTV footage revealed the boy burst into the store on […]
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Still A Good 72 Years Left In Him
When I was a kid, Ed Moses was the coolest man on the running track. He dominated World 400m hurdling. Now he is 48, has a dodgy knee, and is planning his comeback.
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Love Me, Love My Princess
As an “adorable half-caste African”, I have been far too slow to ‘Blog this one. The Guardian dents what could have been a funny, understated report by resorting to this clumsy smear: “[Princess Michael] was born Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, daughter of an Austrian father with connections to the Nazi party.”
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The Tipping Point
One. Two. Three.
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Much-More-Material Girl
Looking at the photo that illustrates this article, you have to wonder just how many M&Ms were made available for her backstage during Madonna’s last tour.
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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 don’t think they’ll be putting him in a tiger suit again any time soon.
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“Meaning Has No Consideration When I Play”
LA Scrabble™ champion adopts Aussie rules.
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The Glasgow Conference Is Over
He’s back. He’s beige. He’s of marriageable age. He’s PooterGeek, European ‘Blogger of Culture 1990.
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Somewhere To Hang Your Spoons
My recent trifling Hallé Berry item has attracted seven comments so far. Particular attention has been paid to Ms Berry’s “nice rack”. Although it is not completely visible in this picture, Nigella Lawson also has a nice rack. I look forward to its becoming available for purchase.
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Innovative And Resourceful
Courtesy of my dad and this agency piece in the Guardian, the latest gem from George W: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we,” George Bush told an audience of military brass and Pentagon chiefs. “They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do […]
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Certain To Be The Finest Political Movie Of The Year
I cannot wait to see Team America: World Police. As an almost-lifelong fan of Thunderbirds and a supporter of Good in the global War on Evil, I started laughing when the trailer reached its half-way point and didn’t stop until well after it had finished.
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That Question Again
Yesterday at noon I was packing my bag in a hotel room, booked in advance over the Web, when the television turned itself on and told me that it was time for me to check out. A taxi with GPS picked me up and took me to Glasgow airport. There I waited for a ticketless […]
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Even I’m Having A Cow About This One
This is worrying and it’s also a rare example of a mainstream news report about genetics taking the time to try to explain the difference between a gene and an allele.
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Competition For The Carpenters And The Osmonds
In the race to be weirdest family pop act of all time, the Trachtenburgs are driving a station wagon very fast. [Thanks to James “le goth” Arthur of Richard‘s film composition course. Requires RealPlayer.]
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House Of Pain
It’s not big and it’s not clever, but it’s a measure of how grim things are for the Conservative party that Labour can get away with a gimmick like this. 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 […]
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Not Exactly Heroes
How’s this for ‘Blogger solipsism? Two people whose work I admire have died this week. Henri Cartier-Bresson is the second. Check out the retrospective at Magnum. (While I’m on the subject, have a look at this very un-H C-B Photo of the Week at photo.net). The way things are going, Aretha Franklin had better remember […]
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A PooterGeek Poll?
What’s more annoying: the one-sentence-per-paragraph formatting of this story or its poor-me, whining celebrity content? Beauty is a curse: Halle Berry Halle Berry. She was the first African-American to represent America at the Miss World pageant. She has won enough beauty titles to last a lifetime. And she has an Oscar (Monster’s Ball) to her […]
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What Are They Good For?
The front page of some editions of today’s Daily Mail screams “WAR ON MIDDLE INCOME STUDENTS”. Given what the Mail thinks of as “middle income”, where do I sign up?
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Michael Crichton Is Annoying (And Mostly Right)
Michael Crichton is a doctor, a best-selling author, and unfairly good-looking. He also gets to make a fortune both writing science fiction horror novels and at the same time debunking science “fact” horror stories. Backword Dave calls the Drake Equation “crack cocaine”. It is. Crichton breathed its vapours deeply before he made this famous public […]
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Still No Vaccine Against Stupidity
Anthony “Black Triangle” Cox isn’t around any more to flag this, so I will.
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The Great British Public
It is a fitting memorial to the spirit of that time.
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The Hussein Bridge Disaster
Norm is too polite. Scotland’s “Poet Laureate” combines a tin ear, bathos, and fashionable stupidity to give us a poem about Saddam that William McGonagall would have been proud of. Please, someone, tell me it was a spoof, written to draw in people like us.
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Single-Stranded DNA
In the business some people call one strand “Watson” and the other “Crick”. A moment's silence, please, for the loss of a helix.
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You Can Type This Stuff…
Straights don't have a monopoly on terrible “romantic” genre fiction. Start at the bottom of 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”.
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Please Don't Ask Why…
…I'm up at this hour. Just read the posts and ignore any spelling mistakes. God, moths are stupid.
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