July 2006 – Concrete Achievements

Well, at least the US isn’t burning them. Yet.

A reminder for Dick Cheney from chapter 15 of

In the year 1487 there was a severe storm in Switzerland, which laid waste the country for four miles around Constance. Two wretched old women, whom the popular voice had long accused of witchcraft, were arrested on the preposterous charge of having raised the tempest. The rack was displayed, and the two poor creatures extended upon it. In reply to various leading questions from their tormentors, they owned, in their agony, that they were in the constant habit of meeting the devil, that they had sold their souls to him, and that at their command he had raised the tempest. Upon this insane and blasphemous charge they were condemned to die. In the criminal registers of Constance there stands against the name of each the simple but significant phrase, “convicta et combusta.”

31 July 2006

5 All out

North Yorkshire club side gets all out for 5. Cricinfo reports.

27 July 2006

Free public transport?

San Francisco tried it for a few days. Metafilter reports.

27 July 2006

A poem for the txtr generation

A good poem on abbreviated poetry posted on rec.arts.poems.

24 July 2006

Tristram Hunt celebrates dissent

Tristram Hunt writes an excellent opinion piece in the Guardian, asking for people to pay more attention to, and to celebrate, Britain’s history of dissent and radicalism. It’s not all Kings, Queens and village greens, he points out.

24 July 2006

Choosing a Premiership team

An American sports writer, who has got into football, tries to pick a Premiership team to follow.

20 July 2006

Films and game theory

At Game Theory.net, explanations of how aspects of various popular films relate to the games people play.

19 July 2006

Metafilter post about Cricket

I done posted to Metafilter.

15 July 2006

Why we vote

Because these guys do, too. Oh, and him.

Christian attitude != looking forward to a global holocaust.

14 July 2006

Month: July 2006