Written a month ago (a geological era in internet time) but, after last four weeks of Republican self-destruction, looks more rather than less relevant! (tags: uspolitics )
Brilliant account of the $19,500 bill for an 1866 telegram to Napoleon III (which in fact was not delivered to him). (tags: communicationsencryptionpoliticsusa )
“Today, Aghdam is an extraordinary place. Once a bustling Azeri town, it is now nothing but ruins for as far as the eye can see. But what the eye can’t see is that this long-frozen front-line is also now part of the global struggle waged between Israel and its enemies.” (tags: israelwarazerbaijanarmenia )
Being an Irish reader of sf and fantasy. “The product of one of history’s many intertidal zones, I love a literature to which I’m largely invisible.” (tags: sfireland )
“IVF is a lot of things. It’s highly political, as I’ve tried to illustrate. It’s unpleasant, tiring and time-consuming. It’s bloody expensive. In all these respects, it’s perhaps not bad practice for the down-sides of parenthood.” (tags: sexandsexualityandgenderfertility )
I appear to have stopped watching the winners (or nominees) after 2003. The English Patient did me in, though. I hated that movie. Barring Titanic and Gladiator, the others since 1996 that I’ve seen have been almost accidental movies which happened to be on TV at some point.
I appear to have stopped watching the winners (or nominees) after 2003. The English Patient did me in, though. I hated that movie. Barring Titanic and Gladiator, the others since 1996 that I’ve seen have been almost accidental movies which happened to be on TV at some point.