dark looks

I’m not generally speaking one to take up a dogmatic position on this sort of thing, but the more attention you pay to DRM and the way it doesn’t work, the more convinced I am that there are whole industries here set up around deliberately shooting oneself in the foot.

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What you always knew happened in the dealership

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A selection of phrases which have flitted through my mind but not made their way into actual verbal expression for one reason or another today:

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If Bluebeard was Lear, and Cordelia was Cinderella, or vice versa, and you added in some iron shoes, metamorphoses, the worship of stellar bodies, and then wrapped the whole thing up in a sort of para-parable about the nature of, and boundaries between, faith, fate, fidelity and trust (not to mention love, or perhaps better [...]

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Sunday morning discovered me slumped in front of the goggle box after a splendid bash, looking for something I could use to keep my eyes occupied for ten minutes. I found a curious factoid-laden thing about Dolly Parton, which as you would expect mentioned Dollywood. In my hypnagogic state, my mind wandered off after [...]

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I’d quite like this image taken from my online banking thingy to be a lot more accurate than it really is…

USians will call this a trillion, UKians who’ve been paying attention will have been calling this a trillion since 1974, and all you lovely Europeople will call it a billion.
When I hit refresh, I [...]

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In an exciting new piece of research reported today, but without any link to any substantive facts, journalists learned that men look at ladies. By drawing lessons from life (in the form of a series of photographs of shapely ladies), reporters discovered that attractive women sell papers, at least to their leering colleagues. Astoundingly, men [...]

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Thought of the morning: Beyond Belief doesn’t ever stray particularly far beyond belief, does it. This makes it the anti-Ronseal of brands… “does everything save what it says on the tin” is rather less snappy, and I see why they haven’t chosen it for their tagline.

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Weird Science made me think about ethics, not Kelly LeBrock.

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In a rare show of unity, everyone announced today that everyone else was hideously corrupt, whilst pocketing a fat brown envelope.
Used fivers spilling out of their pockets, everyone was quick to point out that that other person over there, that shifty looking one, had definitely stuffed one of the tenners falling out of their shirtsleeves [...]

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