Friday, January 08, 2021

FRIDAY MUSIC: Apollo's Fire, by JD

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Named for the classical god of music, healing and the sun, Apollo’s Fire is a GRAMMY®-winning ensemble. The period-instrument orchestra was ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2021

Assange: a good day to bury bad news, by Sackerson

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The good news is that Julian Assange is not to be extradited to the USA and seems likely to be freed soon. The bad news is that magistrate B...
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Sunday, January 03, 2021

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: A robotic future? by Wiggia

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Those of us of a certain age can recall the early films at our weekly outings to Saturday morning pictures like Flash Gordon and aliens from...
Friday, January 01, 2021

FRIDAY MUSIC: Hogmanay Hangover Edition, by JD

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Why do we do it? Simple really, we enjoy it. We enjoy losing ourselves in conviviality especially after this bad, mad year. For centuries, p...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Freedom

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Fighting Project Fear in 2016 -  https://twitter.com/rhodri/status/745516827145441280 June 18th 1940: cartoon by David Low in the Evening St...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Facebook: dumb and dumber

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I tried today to share an interesting item with my brother, via a Facebook post; but a robot censor intervened and their complaint system ha...
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Sex, cruelty and antisemitism; by Sackerson

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Two more episodes from the 1946 autobiography of E L Grant Watson , looking back on a late-Victorian childhood. (a) Grant Watson's moth...
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