Apr
30
April 30, 2002 | 2 Comments
I feel like I’ve been reading No Logo for ages, and I’m only at page 124 of 446. It’s not that it’s particularly hard going, or that I’m disagreeing with it all (though equally, I’m not buying her arguments 100%). The problem is that I’m too easily diverted - Klein’s sources chime so […]
Apr
29
April 29, 2002 | 2 Comments
I’m giving up on Channel 4’s The Truth About Gay Sex - It’s all a bit woefully predictable. And I can’t help but think that all the people who make use of “The Jewel in the Crown of London’s cottages” are probably a little annoyed that it’s been identified as such on national television.
Sphere: […]
Apr
29
The Guardian magazine on Saturday contained a couple of items I thought I’d share.
The first is an interview with Stockard Channing by Zoe Williams, which shows the gifted and challenging actor as intelligent, honest, and down-to-earth. All refreshing qualities in a Hollywood personality.
The second is a fairly lightweight analysis of the 24 phenomenon by […]
Apr
29
April 29, 2002 | 3 Comments
Today’s Metro reported that Tim Henman is stripping off as part of a new campaign designed indirectly to promote young people taking up tennis and directly to promote sales of a well-known washing powder. Am I the only one who doesn’t quite see the connection between nudity and professional tennis? The Guardian also […]
Apr
28
Well, it’s been relatively chilled and rested, which is nice.
Things you don’t hear (or at least I never have) in London:
In reply to a request for a half of lager, a barman’s response to the man beside me was, “Would that be in a lady’s glass?”
My horribly-delayed train journey back into London was made slightly […]
Apr
26
The news of the horrific school shooting in Germany prompted a predictable response on Metafilter, which was to take all of three comments to commence a retreading of The Standard MeFi Discussion on Gun Control(tm). In among the woefully predictable bickering off the back of a tragedy, I thought the following stood out. […]
Apr
26
Well considering it was so miserable earlier, the sky above London this evening was so beautiful I wished I had my camera with me.
I’m off out of town for some family-visiting first thing in the morning, so I’ll be posting over the weekend in either chilled and rested mode, or tense and irritable mode - […]
Apr
26
Potentially meaningless to most people, but….
….JunkBot is back !!!!!!!!
Apr
26
Courtesy of the protracted dryish spell, it’s been a while since I’ve emerged in the morning in the rain, and this morning, it’s *raining*. I quite like rain in a “it’s nice sometimes to stand outside and deliberately get soaked to the skin” way, but when it’s more like the “I now have to […]
Apr
26
April 26, 2002 | 3 Comments
I’ve been relearning about the Peters Projection World Map, which makes for an interesting study. The ’standard’ world map, that we’re all familiar with (properly referred to as the Mercator map) was developed in the 16th Century, and has formed the basis of most people’s understanding of the ’shape’ of the world ever since. […]