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Folk justice
Sophisticated it ain’t. Taking a man’s lottery winnings away from him fifteen years after he was convicted and sentenced may sound Mediaeval to you but I suspect there’s worse to…
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Polly Pocket lesbians
I’m getting a lot of pornospam from a web site called tinylesbians.com (I don’t want to link – it’ll only encourage them). I’m reluctant to actually visit the site in…
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Should have gone to Spec Savers
I was looking for the CAF web site, which is at http://www.caf.org.uk and came across this handsome page at http://www.caf.org.
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Thinking ahead
At the House of Commons event the other day I ran into a futurist called Susan Clayton. I like futurists. They do important work reminding us to remember our descendants.…
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Why should I bother?
Bill Thompson, the
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Proles vs Toffs
I’ve spent a fascinating day in Oxford at the Politics of Code conference, featuring the estimable Larry Lessig, Esther Dyson et al – and a lot of old friends. It’s…
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Two good articles from The NYRB
From the current New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson’s clever and humane review of Michael Crichton’s ‘Prey‘ – another blow against the tech determinists – and Timothy Garton Ash’s…
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Gibson on Manguel on books
William Gibson talked to Alberto Manguel about books: I was in a bar in Barcelona, on the Rambla, with Alberto Manguel, just before Christmas, talking, as it happened, about why…