The Viscount draws attention both to his overall enjoyment of The God Delusion and also to one of the choicer quotes that Richard Dawkins exhumed to help his argument along. I too massively enjoyed the book and many of the bits that Dawkins himself did not write. In fact, I made a little list, an...

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I didn’t know Ang Lee had directed oaters before he got to Brokeback Mountain, and having now seen Ride with the Devil, I’m not surprised. Uncannily, there was another film of the exact same title released in 1999. And equally uncannily, Lee’s film recalls every other civil war Southern Gennleme...

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Over at Neddie's, in the comments, no less, I come across this:

joel hanes said...

What most companies think of as branding,
we users think of as wasting our time
and maybe as insulting our intelligence.
David Weinberger
"Get Over It!"
_Darwin_Magazine_, March 2001

And I think to myself,...

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Over at the other place I've written about the history of European Union legislation on agricultural biodiversity and on a new draft that they think will put matters right. I don't think it will, and I'm saddened to be unable to find any reports of the discussions on the draft that were to have...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.8 This week: 88.7
Tuesday 27 February: Thursday last I weighed 89.0. The following morning I was 90.6. Between the two I had eaten possibly the saltiest bowl of pasta I can recall. That gave me a new insight into the part water plays in short-term fluctuations. The more...

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