Inside Mac Games has published a selection of the dimmer correspondence they’ve had recently. My favourite:
I like to know if play game Medal of Honor possible on iPod? (sic)
Er… no.
Author: Anthony
Cultural Revolution Redux
Similarities between the cultural revolution on America’s campuses, and the Cultural Revolution.
Never let the facts…
If you ever doubt that the wingnuts are really nuts, listen to the discussions on the Schiavo autopsy over at Free Republic. (Comments are below the tendentious news story).
Truth will out
Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state, it seems, and Michael Schiavo hadn’t physically abused her. Humble pie all round.
More discussion chez Margolis.
The drugs don’t work
Erk
This article in the Washington Post is fairly interesting, but only worth blogging because of the existence of the Democratic Erk Party of Uzbekistan. Actually, it’s the Democratic ERK Party (Erk == Liberty, apparently), but I did have an interesting few minutes wondering what a British Erk Party would be like.
(I’ve just wasted five minutes looking for a definition of erk. So here’s some RAF slang).
Understanding house prices
Evan Davies writes an interesting article about how house price rises and falls actually work, and who benefits.
The line:
The people who lose out from falling house prices are not house-price obsessives, but those who are elderly, about to trade down, or emigrate.
gave me a moment of clarity as to why the Daily Mail is so obsessed with house prices.
New Cabinet Secretary
Congratulations to prominent Manchester United fan Gus O’Donnell, who has been appointed Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of The Home Civil Service.
Ichabod, the glory is departed
Jonathan Crowe over at the Map Room covers the second volume in an atlas of the 1946 US railway network, which sounds fascinating – if depressing in the light of Amtrak’s current woes.
For a similar view of Britain’s railways, past and present, you could try:
- British Rail Pre-grouping Atlas and Gazetteer
(for the situation pre-grouping, in 1926); or
- Rail Atlas Great Britain and Ireland
for the position today.
Boundary disputes
The villagers of Sompting are cross, because the new road sign in their village suggests that some of them have been annexed by the expansionist forces of neighbouring Lancing. Today Sompting, tomorrow – Portslade! Link: Brighton Argus.