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Monthly Archives: April 2004

The Good Old Naughty Days - [Guardian Film Review]

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

“This is a bizarre and hilarious film: a fascinating chapter in the secret history of cinema, the belle époque, and of sexual politics. Originally entitled Polissons et Galipettes (”naughtinesses and tumbles”), it anthologises a dozen sex films, furtively made in France between 1905 and 1925, well before the Chatterley ban and the Beatles’ first LP. [...]

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The big fat con story [Guardian]

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Size really doesn’t matter. You can be just as healthy if you’re fat as you can if you’re slender. And don’t let the obesity ‘experts’ persuade you otherwise, argues Paul Campos
at is on trial, but until now the defence has been mostly absent from the court of public opinion. At bottom, the case against fat [...]

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Diplomats send revolt(ing) letter

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Hasbeens attack the Prime minister and Bush (and Israel) with an open letter which is vague, whiney, short on any solutions and downright wrong. Plus it was mis-reported by many. Here is my summary based on the text of the letter:
Paragraph 1: The ambassadors express concern about “policies which [Blair has] followed on [...]

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Slow days at Limbicnutrition…

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. The last week at work has been unbelievable busy. Update flurry coming soon.

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Dissident eraser

Friday, April 23, 2004

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Honestry Stamps [Mosley Meets]

Friday, April 23, 2004

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Race: no such thing by Paul R. Gross [New Criterion]

Friday, April 23, 2004

What response would you get were you to ask almost any college student or member of the current, self-identified American intelligentsia, “What is this society’s most serious problem?” Almost certainly, a large proportion of your eligible interviewees would give this answer without hesitation: “Race!” But here is an oddity: The same interviewees who answer your [...]

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Utter horror

Friday, April 23, 2004

Baby burns to death in oven

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The Hispanic Challenge By Samuel P. Huntington [Foreign Policy]

Friday, April 23, 2004

From Foreign Policy March/April 2004:
The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves—from Los Angeles to Miami—and rejecting the Anglo-Protestant values [...]

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Spammers get seriously clever

Friday, April 23, 2004

You have probably head of SETI @ home and other systems where your computers idle time can be used as part of a massive parallel computing project. These projects harnassed the unused processing power of internet conneced PC, normally for noble ends.
That has changed.
A spam outfit is offering people $1 per CPU hour [...]

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