Much as I inexplicably loath the entire Harry Potter phenomenon, I think the actions of this guy are a little excessive. Indeed, in some ways his behavior is as anorakish as those he annoys the hell out of.Link via the cornucopia that is blogdex.
Remember �disintermediation�? It was a polysyllabic buzzword much beloved by Internet gurus during the height of the dot.com bubble. It basically meant cutting out the middle man, those retailers, agents, and, well, intermediaries that stood between the customer and the product they wanted. It was clear what disintermediation could deliver�the �Information superhighway� would pave over […]
Much as I inexplicably loath the entire Harry Potter phenomenon, I think the actions of this guy are a little excessive. Indeed, in some ways his behavior is as anorakish as those he annoys the hell out of.Link via the cornucopia that is blogdex.
To busy/lazy to provide the usual verbosity. Instead, I merely offer a link to a document that will be/should be discussed a lot over the next few days: The Iraq Body Count’s “A Dossier of Civilian Casualties in Iraq 2003�2005.”It contains the following disturbing breakdown of responsibility for civilian deaths, numbering around 24,865 and counting:* […]
In the wake of the London bombings, I’ve been wondering why the “respectable” political class (i.e. MPs who are not George Galloway) has been so emphatic about the absence of any link between terrorism in Britain and the invasion/liberation (tick according to your credo) of Iraq. If the Labour Government is certain of the righteousness […]
I’ve been meaning to giving a nod to this entertaining article in LA Weekly describing Michel Houellebecq’s alcohol-fuelled sojourn in southern California. Among other things, it reveals that: “Perhaps There Is an Island, Houellebecq�s forthcoming novel about cloning, will be published in France at the end of the summer. […] de Brunhof [a literary agent […]
…the interview with John Banville is now available here.
This week my blog has been about as fresh as RTE’s summer schedule. In my defense, an interview that John Banville graciously agreed to do should be appearing ASAP on the main Three Monkeys Online site. In the meantime, I offer up links to these two interesting, meaty articles, both of which make rather startling […]
It seems that my vice of watching Living TV to catch CSI (not so much CSI: Miami or CSI:NY–these franchisees lack the ineffable appeal of the original Las Vegas series) is at least shared by J.G. Ballard (in his article in the Guardian Review)In his attempt to explain, “given that there are no interesting characters, […]
Jean-Paul Sartre was born 100 years ago today. His reputation has taken a bit of a battering since his death in 1980–his wilful blindness* to the atrocities perpetrated by Stalin is perhaps the biggest black mark against him. But don’t be put off by the stereotypical image of the bug-eyed monstre sacré wreathed in cigarette […]
Then the The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection might be for you!However if you take advantage of this Amazon deal (You save $5,327.75!), you might want to put up a few extra shelves first:”…the 1,082 titles in the Penguin Classics Complete Library total nearly half a million pages–laid end to end they would hit the […]