Tuesday, November 25, 2003
…you can see the new BETA of the Guardian and Observer digital editions.
It looks superb. You can browse the newspaper, see the images actual size, grab press cutting version and download as a PDF. Ver very cool.
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
From Snopes.com:
Claim: The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term “Master/Slave” in product descriptions and labelling. Status: True.
…’master/slave,’ a term commonly used in computing (and related industries) to describe the unidirectional control of one device or process by another. Equipment vendors who do business [...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
See the pictures of them digging it up.
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
From the GLA’s new leaflet “Equality Impact Assessments (EQIAs) - How to do them” [Page 6]:
“The GLA has defined equality target groups as: women; black and minority; ethnic people; young people and children; older people; disabled people; lesbians; gay men; bisexuals; trans people and people from different faith groups.
The equality areas, or strands as they [...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Limbic’s Snap Summary: The keys to successful ethnic / race relations are the reductcion of ethnic competition and weakening of ethnic identification. This needs to be backed up by powerful efforts to promote equality and fight unfair discrimination by raising the costs of racism and discrimination . Bigotry can be fought and beaten, but similarities [...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Just like the phone numbers keep changing, so does the name for black people. Once upon a time it was Negro, then Coloured, then Afro-Carribean and now it is African British:
“African British is the name now used to describe the community previously mislabelled as Afro-Caribbean, Black British, UK Black, Negro, Nigger, Coloured and Black. It [...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Thinking of buying an iPod? Check this first.
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
‘…the European Union’s Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia has decided to shelve its report on the rise of anti-Semitism on the Continent.
The problem, as reported in The Telegraph, is that the survey had found that “many anti-Semitic incidents were carried out by Muslim and pro-Palestinian groups”, and so a “political decision” was taken not [...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Theodore Dalrymple reviews Therapy Culture by Frank Furedi. I have seen Frank Furedi speak at Spiked Online’s brilliant Panic conference and he is a very smart man.
“…the extension of belief in “therapy” is both symptomatic and productive of a profound change in human relations, and not for the better. It may also lead to an [...]
Monday, November 24, 2003
Christopher Hitchens profiles Victor Serge [Serge's homepage]:
After Dostoyevsky and slightly before Arthur Koestler, but contemporary with Orwell and Kafka and somewhat anticipating Solzhenitsyn, there was Victor Serge. His novels and poems and memoirs, most of them directed at the exposure of Stalinism, were mainly composed in jail or on the run. Some of the [...]