The crazy kids at Jinx Magazine specialize in what they call “urban exploration”: going places in cities where they shouldn’t go. They value “anti-totalitarianism, humanism, and unnecessary risk-taking”. So that’ll explain why this entry won their “Best Photograph” competition [warning: large image].
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09Jan04 — 1
New PooterGeeker
I feel a little bit like the landlord of a tiny village pub staring at a city newcomer by doing this, but we have a new contributor here at PooterGeek, that is we have one who hasn’t been drawn to join the growing community over at the Naked Harry Potter page. Dakujem thinks he knows […]
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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.)
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Putting A Stop To It
It looks like the Americans are going to get a Trussing too. Whatever the article says, the reason this humorous punctuation guide was such a bestseller in Britain at Christmas isn’t a mystery. In our crappy English comprehensives very few teachers teach punctuation well and very few pupils overcome the peer pressure not to learn. […]
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Quote for the Day
I am currently alternating between two of my Christmas books as bedtime reading: What Philosophers Think, edited by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom, and Francis Spufford’s Backroom Boys. The latter is a polished crystal of popular science writing. Spufford describes technological phenomena in a concrete, evocative way (“smaller engines filled the air with the sound […]
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Ethan Rising
Yesterday Judith emailed in reply to my post about the doll called Eitan. She said she had the impression that the English equivalent of “Eitan”, “Ethan”, was becoming a more and more popular boys’ name. She’s right. Also yesterday, by coincidence, The Office of National Statistics published the latest report on the most popular boys‘ […]
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A Region Plunged Into Crisis
Will the terrible fallout from the War on Terror never end?
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Missing Alynzia
I hadn’t heard from Alynzia for months (since her last comment on PooterGeek in fact) so I went looking for her online and found that her Website has disappeared. Let us know you’re still alive, Ms Newton! And do you have anything to do with TheAristotleEngine?
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Shake A Tailfeather
Jo pointed out to me today that, if you hurry over to visit the homepage of the International Conference on Animal Genetics 2004 (to be held in Tokyo) you will see a photograph of the longest cock on the Web.
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Star Of International Relations
Claire! Your op-ed page on PooterGeek is the number one Google hit for “Resolution 242 tutorial“.
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Pictures From Infinity
Extremely bored? Try the Google-powered random personal picture finder—linked to months ago by the Google ‘Blog I found today.
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Own Worst Critic
On the basis of an article I’d written, I was asked to contribute to a book today. This sounds impressive until I add that I had never heard of the publisher. Checking out their list, I followed up the name of one of their authors who had written some computational biology stuff for them. He […]
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I Believe
Last week Michael Howard laid out his philosophy as Tory leader in a public declaration of 16 beliefs. I dislike and disagree with him, but he came in for a thoroughly undeserved kicking for his statement. Cambridge’s very own Chris Lightfoot half-defended him from the press, now I’ll half-defend Howard too. The Conservative leader’s credo […]
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In Other News
The latest message from the Osama Bin Laden Soundalike Society was top of the BBC’s headlines in all the evening news bulletins. Meanwhile, Claire alerted me to yet another horrifying development in Afghanistan. As I always say, it’s in the interests of both sides of the War on Terror to live in the parallel dimension […]
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Happy Birthday!
Many happy returns to my dad.
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Baby/Doll
Yesterday ‘Blogging superstar Glenn Reynolds was reviewing girls’ boy-dolls on his Instapundit Weblog. His point was that a “Flava” doll called “Liam” is selling poorly because it’s too girly, but he is positive about the male Bratz—apparently his own daughter is a fan. (And I have to say that I think the music loops on […]
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A Little Miracle
As I have ranted about before, Radio 1 is a post-apocalyptic media wasteland, where Smashie and Nicey rule, albeit reincarnated as a single DJ, the intellectually challenged pub bore Chris Moyles. In the late 80s the S’n’N satirical duo characterized Radio 1 as an out-of-touch musical outlet, trapped in a loop of mid-Atlantic soft rock. […]
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Happy New Year!
Sorry for the absence. I’ve been very, very busy. More ‘Blogging soon.
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The Idiocy of the Prelacy (cont.)
Following on from yesterday, more gob-smacking supidity from “Dr” Tom Wright.
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Come To Molvania!
Persevere with this stylish spoof. Some of the best laughs are in the sly details.
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Bashing The Bishops
Yesterday “Dr” David Hope, the Bishop of York, and “Dr” Tom Wright, the bishop of Durham, “contributed” to the debate about whether Tony Blair was right to go to war against Saddam’s regime. At the same time they contributed evidence to my case for the teaching of reasoning skills at British universities. PooterGeekers who know […]
Read More29Dec03 — 1
Yuck
[warning: spoilers] Now, if you’re looking for sick-makingly sentimental (as opposed to just cuddly), then according to the Times the upcoming Julia Roberts vehicle Mona Lisa Smile sounds like just the thing. I might be interested in Ocean’s Twelve, though. UPDATE: Outside the UK you now have to be a subscriber to read most Times […]
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“Mum, I’m Stuck!”
Marvin voice: Brain the size of a planet and all the readers want from me is pictures of pandas. No, Leasey, there is nothing “feminine” about my finding the badly-designed bears appealing. And as for Maoi, you can’t have a panda for your birthday, but you can have some panda wallpaper for your desktop. This […]
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bright grey
Someone is trying to build a funky life insurance company!
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Kids’ Stuff
A child could paint better.
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When Geeks Wore Beards
Dan Bricklin invented the spreadsheet. On his Website he has a lovely little history of the way Visicalc was born. Lots of now (rich and) famous computer personalities make cameo appearances.
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Book Review Round-Up
Newton’s Swing is a lean, but consistently interesting, New York thriller. To summarize it in the style of SavaPoint: A man is upset when his beautiful wife is shot dead in their apartment while their son is in bed. It has two faults: the author occasionally crosses the line between striking description and writerly fussiness […]
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