Tag: Dirt
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On Beauty and Justice
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One of the tensions we often faced within Vaux was whether the pursuit of the beautiful was inappropriate when injustice was still present. I’ve been thinking more about this following the Soliton meeting in Northern Ireland last weekend. This article in The Believer, the interviewer asks the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer “Given that a wealthy…
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Mobile Blogging | Are You Suffering From Hyperconnectia?
Reading TSK’s post on the Vizrea mobile-to-blog tool, I wondered if we are in danger of suffering collective Hyperconnectia. [ See Wikipedia entry here ] Do you get Super-highway Rage when you’re connection is dropped, or you can’t find wifi? Does your blood pressure and perspiration rate increase in inverse proportion to the number of…
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Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Cartoons Will Never Hurt Me.
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The European press are clearly wrong to raise the temperature on things by re-publishing the offending images, but I can’t help thinking that Mohammed would have been more robust than to worry about them. What worries me more is a minority mindset that reacts with cries of bloody violence, demanding hangings, lynchings and beheadings. It…
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Dirty Londoners Don’t Flush?
A good little ‘dirt’ story bobbed up yesterday. London Mayor Ken Livingstone – for those unfamiliar, not one to mince his words or ideas – has encouraged Londoners not to flush the loo when they take a pee/wizz/spend a penny etc. The idea is to save water… It may be freezing here at the moment,…
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Graham Doel Asks…
As you may have seen, Graham was blogging through the book recently, and, having done so, posted some questions, which I’m going to try to answer here. I’ll start with an easy one: Have you ever tried to get a plumber in a hurry? No. But my dad has. When I asked him to repair…
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Dead Dick
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This short sermon clip from Dick Lucas, vicar of St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, just has to be listened to to be believed; had me in stitches and disbelief in equal measure. As Ian said, if he’d made this cock-up, he’d have to leave the job! (For those aware of the high standing of this most respected…