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- Die Zeit on The Economist. I always thought their viewing angle on the world was a bit too narrowly focused on money when I was able to peek at Dave's subscription a few years ago. Yet it sounds quite cool that they don't run for the whole ego thing of the reporters that other papers do these days.
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Guantánamo, once again. Apparently the people working there are proud of what they're doing. They can't talk to the public freely and whatever they say sounds phoney at best. Apparently a reporter managed to extract a
Niemand außer Amerika würde seine Feinde so behandeln.
Oh, well.
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Only last week, Richard encouraged me to investigate Scottish band Franz Ferdinand after seeing them at Vera, and now they're even featured in the paper. Odd, considering that Die Zeit usually isn't at the forefront of popular music, while Vera is.
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In the 'this song reminds me of'-department: The laid-back 'lalala's in Franz Ferdinand's 40ft sound very LIbertines-ish. And The Coral's Liezah sounds so Simon and Garfunkel.
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Tell me about a good way to make automatic backups of selected folders onto my iPod. This shouldn't be too expensive, not waste too much space, i.e. only save changes, be able to run while I'm sleeping, be encrypted.
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Comment in The Guardian:
[...] Rising mental illness seems an inescapable consequence of the kind of rapid, disruptive change driven by market capitalism. It's not that people have gone soft so much as that they are profoundly disorientated by the ceaseless discontinuity of change. Experience becomes utterly random and meaningless. [...]
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Permissions are Restrictions.
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via 2lmc: Helpful stuff for Mail.
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Not that I've become an endorser of Flash or anything, but I don't seem to have linked to Yeti Sports yet. Particularly the penguin hitting is fun.
March 2, 2004, 0:54
Comment by Gummi: ¶
Re:comment in the Guardian.
I stumbled across a couple of psychiatrists at a conference in the States, and our conversation turned to ‘The Pressure of Civilisation’. They pointed me to this study as an example of what one of them called a ‘psychological allergy’.
March 2, 2004, 18:06
Comment by ssp: ¶
Interesting.
I can already see some right wing people use this to tell the Mexicans to stay ‘where they belong’ for health and safety reasons.
March 3, 2004, 1:38
Comment by d.w.: ¶
This year (2004), the Mexicans are friends of the right-wingers, since it’s an election year and Hispanics are a large voting block, particularly in California, Texas, and Florida. They’ll be back to hating them in 2005, though.
March 3, 2004, 16:31
