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  • Fantasies of control

    Does anyone know how much David Blunkett’s ID cards are going to cost? No. Doesn’t look like it. There are no costs in the draft bill (PDF) and only some…

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  • Abu Ghraib Reading

    2023 UPDATE: when I read my old posts from this period I’m surprised and sometimes apalled at how apparently forgiving I was of the solecisms and straightforward lies of those…

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  • Wi-fi obstacles

    A bit of fairly well aimed Wi-fi cynicism from Richard Wray in The Guardian. Wray’s principle objections are: the total lack of roaming and a potential boom in laptop theft.…

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  • Holiday diversions, part 1

    The Royal Airforce Museum at Hendon is a top day out with the kids – especially now that, like all national museums and galleries – it’s free. It’s a pretty sobering…

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  • The downside

    Rosa is nine weeks old. She turns out to be entirely adorable – but then I would say that. Juliet’s latest column for Tigerchild (written a couple of weeks ago)…

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  • Cheer up. It might never happen…

    I’ve been sarcastic about Steven Pinker’s knee jerk Darwinism in the past but this piece from today’s Guardian is the best debunking yet of the apocalyptic strain of genetic futurology…

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  • Memory at the British Museum

    Bloggers will love ‘The Museum of the Mind’, a new exhibition in The Great Court at the British Museum: odds and sods assembled to support a larger purpose – a…

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  • I like this guy a lot

    UPDATE: another broken link 🙁 Interviewed by the estimable Wendy Grossman in New Scientist, a geek who uses statistical methods and clever database code to skewer torturers and dictators.

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  • A quiet city

    2023 UPDATE: I’d forgotten that the invasion of Iraq, which, when it began, had been so well-telegraphed, filled us all with such dread. I mean we all knew the exact…

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  • Note to self

    Check editor’s credentials carefully. HANNAH ARENDT’S NAZI EDITOR. From Amygdala

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