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Monthly Archives: July 2003

Extraordinary race row? Nah, ordinary racial hypersensitivity and hysteria…

These comments, two statements and two questions, are enough to spark a ‘race row’ according to the Evening Standard:
“School inspectors are today at the centre of an extraordinary row after being accused of making racist remarks at a London primary school.
An official investigation has been launched following the incident at Woodberry Down Primary School [...]

You are not a number, but if you were, you would be 13002

The American Gallery of Psychiatric Art - Sanity for Sale: 1960-2000
Advertisments for psychiatric drugs from 1960 to the present day. All of the regulars are here including the three slow news day favourites: Ritalin, Valium and Prozac.

The Men’s Bibliography

“A comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities, gender, and sexualities (11th edition)”

This is the picture the Evening Standard runs with the ‘jerk off to beat cancer story’…


Alcoholic mineral water [DNA]


The Adequacy Style Troll (AST): A Brief Refresher [Kuro5hin.org]

“The AST achieves its goal by a combination of proven techniques:
* A tone of calmness and rationalism is maintained. This creates an enhanced contrast between the AST itself and the responses, which are likely to be emotional and less thoroughly considered.
* The initial starting position for argument is unassailably sensible.
* Each step of the argument [...]

The BEST Gazpacho soup on the market

This has brought delight to my lunch times lately. Marks and Spencer’s Gazpacho soup (£1.89). [Nutritional info: 600g, 150 calories (kcal) , less than 1% fat].

Assimilation inverted

Yesterday I had a meeting with representative of our local (to my company) charity network to discuss my company’s community involvement.
During the meeting the representative, a very pleasant middle aged woman, was telling is about how core funding was being slashed. One project that is jeopardised is one where Somali refugees and immigrants get [...]

Beautiful new Sony laptop..


Long and delightful interview with Nick Nolte [Sunday Times]

Here is a man who tells journalists he has had a testicle tuck, an extropian who injects himself with megadoses of vitamin B12, evangelises about GHB, has his own dopamine receptors mapped, keeps a court - what the interviewer calls a “Boystown” - made up of male friends who live on his compound.
The man [...]