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Structural glass
I bang on here a lot about the use by the latest wave of modernist architects of glass, most recently in this posting. And of course there is the way that glass now fills modern life with multiple and...
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Helen Dale, in the course of a review of Matt Ridley’s How Innovation Works: It is telling that Soviet authorities allowed the 1940 film Grapes of Wrath to be released in the country as a propaganda...
View ArticlePeter Caddick-Adams: If D-Day had been postponed it would have been a...
I have been reading the recently published book by Peter Caddick-Adams about D-Day, entiled Sand and Steel: A New History of D-Day, the follow-up to Snow and Steel, which was about the Battle of the...
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The old black router and the new white router – from normal style back to...
No time for much here today, although I have today done more than I usually do in the way of commenting. Much of the day was spent snoozing in bed while The Guru sorted out the outage, and then with me...
View ArticleSteven Johnson’s history of what we do for fun
Tell ’em what you’re going to say, tell ’em, tell ’em what you said. I believe that’s the formula that many preachers follow when they give their sermons. The bit from a book below is from the “tell...
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Paul poster with shadow selfie
One from the I Just Like It directory: I photoed this photo, somewhere out east (a photo photoed at the same time was of the Thames Barrier) ten years and seventeen days ago. I like the movie. I like...
View ArticleHow to win the libertarian argument with hippos
Once again, I am saying a big thank you to Rob Fisher, for doing his bit to make my life and libertarianising echo in eternity. (Commenters, what movie am I quoting there? I liked that phrase the...
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Another SF movie gadget at the Marsden
Yes, yet another big gadget in the Royal Marsden (see also this amazing piece of kit) that makes you think you are in a science fiction movie: I photoed this photo quite a while back now. What, I...
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Will Groundhog Day stop happening tomorrow?
I haven’t tortured myself by following the details, but am I correct in supposing that tomorrow, things will start to open up again? Here are some photos I photoed of the front of the Old Vic Theatre,...
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Stormtrooper in Croydon
Here’s the other odd thing I saw in Croydon yesterday, and after that, I’ll concentrate on the more serious stuff, the sort that will require an essay. So, here’s the weirdness: On the left, well, that...
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