Thoughtful piece by John Lanchester in the current edition of the London Review of Books.
Daily Archives: January 21, 2006
Fairtrade Gods
The Guardian on Saturdays has a nice section (called “Ouch!”) which prints embarrassing misprints and typos. How about this?
The Parochial Church Councils of Risley and Stanton-by-Dale with Dale Abbey have both said that we are Fairtrade Churches. This means we do all in our power to use only fairly traded gods in our churches and activities.
Or this ‘For Sale’ notice?
UNISEX mounting bike universal black & yellow with helmet.
Blackmailers target $1m home page
BBC News Online report…
The site of a UK student who had the idea of selling pixels as advertising space has been hit by a web attack.
Alex Tew, 21, hit the headlines at the start of the year when he revealed his Million Dollar Homepage had made him a million dollars in four months.
But the publicity brought the unwanted attention of extortionists who knocked the site over with a massive denial-of-service attack.
Following a week of downtime, the website is now back online.
Sometimes one wonders…
… about the sanity of one’s fellow beings. The owner of this expensive computing set-up published the photograph on Flickr — and yet displays his postal address on his website. Clearly, the ability to do joined-up thinking is not evenly distributed across the globe.