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Time Trumpet

Really looking forward to Armando Iannucci’s new show, Time Trumpet. Here’s an interview from The Independent, which is worth preserving: Armando Iannucci: Keeper of the satirical flame With I’m Alan Partridge and The Day Today, Armando Iannucci pioneered a brand…

Depressing

The current situation in the Middle East is unbelievably depressing. Stuff like this from Melanie Phillips hardly makes one more sympathetic to the Israelis.

Wikipedia CD

Hadn’t come across this before, but the children’s charity SOS Children’s Villages UK has produced a downloadable .zip of Wikipedia entries they think would be useful to children in terms of subject and quality, that people can distribute via CD.…

Yahoo, Microsoft tie message knot

From the BBC: Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of 350 million users. The trial software…

links for 2006-07-10

Allez les Bleus! (tags: football zidane) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Emergent bureaucracy (tags: wiki wikipedia)

links for 2006-07-08

The poet of dialectics Francis Wheen on ‘Das Capital’. First read his views on the book in his autobiography of Marx. (tags: wheen marx) Buying PR9 Links on W3.org (tags: pagerank w3c)

England 0 – 0 Portugal

So, England’s World Cup campaign has come to an end, through the usual medium, the penalty shoot out. A few things came out of the tournament for me: England were nowhere near as bad as their critics have made out…

Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath

Originally posted on Palimpsest: Well, I have now finished two books consecutively for the first time in ages, and at last my Palimplist is making some movement. I think I should thank Patrick McGrath for that. Port Mungo is every…