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… that I didn’t go out and buy a Sony PRS-505 the other day. If I had, I’d have been tempted to eschew Sony and Waterstones’ generous promise that prices will be “Much the same as normal paperbacks” by finding a copy of, say, Neal Stephenson’s new opus Anathem on a site like Fictionwise (because [...]

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Right. Jolly good. I’ve had the most marvellously busy couple of months, which has kept me out of trouble and off the interwebs, probably to everyone’s benefit.
I’ve had three conversations with three separate people* lately which brushed gently across the same territory. The topic is, as you have probably guessed by now, my artistic input. [...]

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Seen on a giant ad hoarding on my way home today: “Imagine… expressing your emotions with optical zoom”
I can’t even begin to understand how I have successfully expressed my emotions all these years without an optical zoom (save the built in one, where you move the lens assembly and imaging surfaces closer to the object [...]

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The link speaks for itself

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“The UN Panel says every country will be affected by global warming”
Reaches for atlas. Unable to locate any countries not on the globe.
Reaches for dictionary. Unable to find relevant alternative definitions of global.
Concludes either:
a) “Global warming” now a set phrase and as such UK anglophones (at least) no longer required to consider what either of [...]

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I’m glad of the internet, because I can find things like this, and my faith in science is restored. What a relief.

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Well, it’s been a while since I saw it last, and when I stumbled over it again today, I thought I could do worse than share with you Betty Bowers’ information on how we plan to overthrow the nicer bits of Western Civilisation.

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