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Tonight: 2215h, BBC Radio4, 95 mins Iraq: the Galloway – Hitchens debate Hear Galloway and Hitchens debate the Iraq war. Amusing how the strapline denies both of them first names. Apparently it’ll be up for re-listening after the broadcast, on [www.bbc.co.uk]

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For the last 24 hours this blog has been – for want of a better explanation – under attack. The attack has been been to add comment-spam to prettymuch every posting in the archive, and as-of 9am this morning I had received 810 of these things. Now here’s the funny thing: these aren’t referrer-spams. They

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OK, do Dubya’s human too, and humans occasionally need to go to the potty, but as Sarah points out, it hardly fits the magnificence of how Reuters spun it: [news.yahoo.com] President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th

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[www.themovieblog.com] The Wicker Man director angry over remake […] In the original, Woodward’s character was a virgin, making him ideal for sacrifice. That element has been ditched from the remake, because it was thought that while audiences would accept the idea of an American community that practised human sacrifice, the idea of a grown-up virgin

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[www.funnygames.nl] – link c/o [www.csamuel.org]

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A charming and exceptionally well-done piece of animation, good song too: [www.jcbsong.co.uk] Rather Calvin&Hobbes-ish, in a British sort of way. Open the book, and click on the video link.

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Most definitely.

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Well, the Russian Government hates Google Earth, the Korean Government hates Google Earth, the Dutch Government hates Google Earth, GetMapping.COM are abhored by MI5 and their flunkies although somehow Google Maps seems to be approved-of by the BBC and Google Earth is not yet on the UK media’s radar… Isn’t it funny that people will

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[nielsenhayden.com] Don’t ignore warnings. If someone tells you to beware of Long Lankin, friggin’ beware of him. If someone tells you not to go by Carterhaugh, stay away. Same goes for your mother asking you not to go out hunting on a particular day. Portents about weather, particularly when delivered by an old sailor who

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Strange, bizzare and sad: [www.macleans.ca] The Canadian music icon is broke and the lawsuits are flying. It’s a sordid tale involving allegations of extortion, SWAT teams, forcible confinement, tax troubles and betrayal.

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I was reading elsewhere of a common complaint: My tax disc was stolen again a couple of weeks ago. This time instead of just taking the tax disc, the pikey kids took the entire tax disc holder. (Probably because I’d replaced the “insecure” holder with a new one that has six hex screws holding the

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From Bridget: thank god for your blog! it is a lifesaver in these times of emotional turbulence! ( you can post this as a recommendation if you want! ) love the pics of the dragonfly!!! …now all I need to do is get her onto Skype, and I can spend all my days – as

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