Category Archives: blogdom

tartans in spaaace

Ken MacLeod, author of The Stone Canal &c, has a blog. (Thanks, Travis!) But — oh dear . . . It’s reminded me of the few times when I’ve felt the clammy suckers of capital’s covert-action tentacles on the back of my … Continue reading

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permute(‘a’,’i’,’n’,’s’,’t’)

Of course you know InstaPundit, king of the bloggers; you may know that the title is parodied at (in?) isntapundit. I’ve long hoped that someone in Byzantium would launch Istanpundit; a watcher of all kinds of opposition could run AntisPundit. … Continue reading

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a strange pitch

Ah, Blogger has a shiny new interface. I’ve been getting a spam for ‘escorts’, which includes this line: “I love long walks on the beach, candlelight dinners . . . oh, and of course, experienced men with big cocks!” Seems to me … Continue reading

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Laurence Simon of Amish Tech Support, weary from the media attention brought on by his exposure of a scandal in Washington, returned briefly to his old form yesterday. Heh heh. (2004 Oct 19: Those links have gone bad, but I … Continue reading

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SiO2 is only the main course

Take a close look at sand. Amazing variety! — What has that in common with the International Association of Fake Universities? I got both links from JWalk.

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it is what it is

The Left Foot Living Review, by Andrew Plotkin, consists mostly of deadpan observations of life in an interesting time, or at least a time with interesting toys.

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Cogito, ergo non possum dormire

The above delightful phrase is the title of a new “mostly political (libertarian), mostly link-hound, mostly for my amusement blog.” Oops! For those of you whose Latin has gone rusty, that means I Think, Therefore I Cannot Sleep.

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