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Most recently...I Asked You To Do A Simple Job December 19, 2007 : Fictive Snip"In Switzerland of all places, Blem attempts to put his final affairs in order."Where the books went : librarians sabotage experience December 18, 2007 : Dead Library "Librarians fufill a covert role, hiding the books you want."
Ships Art Launched December 07, 2007 : Fictive Snip "Herman and Ronald Reagan watch the colonization show."Eponine Warehouses Vegetables November 11, 2007 : Fictive Snip "Eponine invited him for a final drink at the airport and wished he would go away."Always angles : the Internet as ulterior motivated communication November 11, 2007 : Dead Library "What we say is not necessarily what we mean, though if we can all agree on what we will not say, then these are servicable grounds on which to conduct public debate - Unattributed"
Monkey 101 November 10, 2007 : Fictive Snip "Scare a monkey from a tree and the difficulty is trajectories or, exactly to clip the banana-fan on the way down."
Middle class and the C-word July 11, 2007 : Sweating Off "When 'chav' entered the popular lexicon it became acceptable again for middle class Englanders to slag the lower classes."
When a war is an intervention : a librarian’s interest in authority control July 10, 2007 : Dead Library "Search for 'Lebanon War, 2006' in the Library of Congress subject authority database and you retrieve one heading for a war which exploded in the region in 2006, and a watered-down proposed alternative, 'Lebanon > History > Israeli intervention, 2006'."
Grated Carrot July 05, 2007 : Fictive Snip "Blem used to run with the Irregulars, painting cash machines, burning mannequins and lying in dirty ditches. He was trying to imagine what it would be like to fight, and die, for some higher purpose. He retired, and then the Irregulars came knocking again.
Rain of Terror June 27, 2007 : Sweating Off "Middle England threw a fit when it rained this week and news bins rang to the words emergency, freak, alarm, havoc, drama, death, frantic, disaster..."
The Dog Delusion June 22, 2007 : Fictive Snip "Dickwind is visited by Dog after a leisurely lunch and suffers a crisis of faith."
Computerless library : pull the plug on the Internet June 19, 2007 : Dead Library "Academic libraries are not the place to concentrate university computer facilities. Internet access should be strictly restricted and emphasis placed instead on dedicated IT 'Hives' entirely separate in purpose and location from the library."
Soak Dead Time On A SlowTrain June 13, 2007 : Fictive Snip "Endure tabs were a drug to kill the Dead Time in a person's life, to substract the useless, empty hours when as humans we do nothing but watch the ticking clock."
Endure Tabs For A Cold Train June 13, 2007 : Fictive Snip "Before a long train journey, Blem Moose checks his Aunt's thermal suit is properly adjusted, and dishes out Endure tablets so they don't waste any life-time on the ride."
Watch Reid's Phallocarp June 8, 2007 : Sweating Off "John Reid waggles his phallocarp and we squeal in excitement as terrorists, Enemy Tee, judder in fear. The UK Government seems intent on shitting out another terror law turd, but aint it all cock waving and card tricks?"
Brown Pants June 3, 2007 : Sweating Off "Gordon Brown is on hand to remind us what we have to fear. Beware the Bogeymen and this culture of fear."
Automotive History May 21, 2007 : Fictive Snip "You sit on the bus. It doesn't move. You might be patient. You can only ignore it for so long. Passengers get angry..."
Self Control May 10, 2007 : Fictive Snip "If I could punch on through to retirement, grimmed Blem. This slog. This perpetual crisis. His fingers clattered across the keys, planting mischief..."
Legs Good and Bad, Or What He Did May 13, 2007 : Sweating Off "Cakehand conducted a straw poll to gauge how his friends felt about Tony Blair after his ten years as Prime Minister."
In Sudan, A Crisis And A Crisis And May 10, 2007 : Sweating Off "The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has been dragging on for years, which begs the question - how long a crisis go on for? Language can be used motivate change, or muddy the truth."
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Links to ElectrolandGood song / Two-headed boy Part 2A powerful force in techno called technoviking. Borges story, The Library of Babel, about an infinite library. TheRabbit's glands pulse at the thought. All the way from Pedro. Great radio show. An old codger's last interview. Love pipe promises to bring peace in the Asiatic. A business with ambitions that traverse This Planetary Pebble should have a name to match. Testo McSquirt. JJ Abrams, creator of 'Lost' whips Netizens into viral marketing frenzy with the trailer for his untitled new film. Eventually we will derive more pleasure from adverts than products Achieving. Pure. Ad. Zen. Surprising portrait for editor - I did not expect McCracken-Flesher, the editor of 'Culture, nation, and the new Scottish parliament' (link) to look so jaunty. Goat Tying at the National Rodeo Championships. "I told our girls tonight that I want four more to have a ring for each of my fingers." Could a man eat himself? Stephen King short story Survivor Type attempts an answer. Nearly lunchtime now. Prawn cocktail crisps are not enough. Could try my own arm... Independent Monitor's report on visa refusals without appeal looks at how well UKVisas is doing it's job. The Monitor is positive in many respects, but doesn't shy from calling up the howlers. One TOURIST visa refusal stated: "You wish to go to the UK for a holiday. You have never previously undertaken any foreign travel before and I can see little reason for this trip". Jesus' face found in Indian snack pack - Vatican to investigate as scientists gaze on, astounded, and consider 'jacking it all in'. Lucid OpEd on Hamas rout in Gaza from Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada. Too many sticky fingers in the pot, and the Palestinian's get no say. Cum packing list mention on an invoice at work appealed to juvenalia nerve beds. Could be on a menu in a brothel. CIA detention sounds like no fun at all. Taken from Marwan Jabour's account:
He had spent a year and a half in captivity without even a glimpse of natural light. One day the Americans opened up a skylight in his building. “They brought me a chair and let me sit under the skylight,” he remembered. “I was so happy. I joked with them, pretending to call outside, ‘Help! Someone help me! Let me out!’”Human Rights Watch Report 'Ghost prisoners' (February 2007) |
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