Posted in Links on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Revealed: the royal waive which means no spending cuts for the Windsors | UK news | The Guardian
I am so writing an essay out of this
(tags: monarchy publicdebate finance raisetherepublic)
New title on Vietnamese nationalist Phan Chau Trinh
Phan Châu Trinh, often credited for being the first and most articulate champion of democracy and popular rights in [...]
Posted in Links on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dust storms in Sydney | World news | guardian.co.uk
this is incredible! I can't help feeling as though if an event like this occurred five hundred years ago, people would have promptly dissolved into Armageddon hysteria. today, we jog blithely around in it & take stunning photos on our DSLRs.
(tags: photography australia duststorm guardian)
Tim Kreider – [...]
Posted in Archive Thinking on September 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In an archive that shall remain unnamed, I have recently encountered iniquities. Many, many of them — O it is an archive corpulent with iniquity — and I shall inflict four of these iniquities upon you, so that historians among you may know how good you probably have it in pretty much any other archive, [...]
Posted in Links on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- is a grammatically correct sentence!
(tags: wtf words english language linguistics weird)
All quiet on the God front – Simon Blackburn
I like this essay; it seems to fill my head with ideas, only I don't exactly know what they are.
(tags: religion silence simonblackburn bookreviews [...]
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