I Googled “+Ahmadinejad +Watson” and was pretty astounded to find almost nothing. Doing the same on Blogsearch¹ provided three items.

• [Undemocracy in America] http://undemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/10/ahmadinejad-1-watson-0.html
• Wired Blog Network, and
• Sweetness and Light

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I’m late reporting on George Clooney’s Michael Clayton because it hasn’t been easy to work out what to say, beyond the banal “one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long, long time”. The script plays with time beautifully, with the flashback -- four days earlier -- spooling quietly on so that thing...

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I tried a long and meaningful post about getting straight from flickr to here. But I was being too clever, and the words vanished into the aether. So I'm trying again, with a bunch of garbage words, just to see what's what.

I tried a long and meaningful post about getting straight from flickr to...

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By G8 standards, Italy is a strange country. To put it simply, it is a nation of octogenarian lawmakers elected by 70-year-old pensioners. Everyone else is inconsequential.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, but Italy’s attempt to gag bloggers is actually getting some traction in the wide wor...

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Down by the river yesterday morning something in the sky caught my eye. This was not easy, because my eye was fixed firmly on the ground to avoid the shit, needles and other detritus of the raggle-taggle life. I glanced up to see two skeins of geese arrowing fast towards me. I whipped out the phon...

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