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“essentially a literary gossip column” – CK Stead, 18 April 2010

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

His master’s voice

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This is for anyone who has had a wife. His own, I mean, not someone else’s.
Monday, November 15, 2010

Sentence of the day

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Mona Eltahawy , an Egyptian-born columnist and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues, responds in the Toronto Star to Saudia Arabia ge...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Around the blogs

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Chad Taylor has lead in his pencil and he   likes The Social Network : If TV, as someone once said, is about people walking in and out of ...

Too much information

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Last week’s Economist had a special report on smart systems and, inter alia, the enormous quantity of information generated:  Estimates by...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Google search term of the day

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Google’s algorithm placed this blog at the top of the list of search results for the query “Oh my god ! My mother was playmat”, well ahead o...

The Talking Michael Caine Blues

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Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan duke it out: Monitor: Kottke.org
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More Stephen Fry on himself

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In the aftermath of the fuss about his reported comment (obviously a misquote) about women not enjoying sex, Stephen Fry explains himself on...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

What I’m reading: Frank Zappa edition

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Shocking, isn’t it, that you can download books from the internet. Except this one, The Frank Zappa Guitar Book , is long out of print so I...
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Mrs Merton on Silvio Berlusconi

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Kindly, twinkly, avuncular billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian PM, has been helping yet another attractive young woman, Karima el- M...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Herald headline of the week

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Britpop lives again as Pulp reform for the common people Not for the money, then.
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