January 2012
19 posts
“With his vast array of geohistorical references and precedents, he is almost...”
– Amis on Hitchens: ‘He’s one of the most terrifying rhetoricians the world has seen’ | Books | The Observer
“IT WAS mid-January and the roads in New York were slick with ice. I was driving...”
– Level-up life: how gaming can enhance your reality - health - 04 January 2012 - New Scientist
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair,... →
salmanrushdie1:
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
“Around the same time, I noticed that those who part with $2,285 a night to stay...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
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Review of Stephenson’s *README*
December 2011
69 posts
“[…] And Port had said: “Death is always on the way, but the fact...”
– The Sheltering Sky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BBC E-mail: UK requests return of US detainee →
The judgement against the government came under the law of Habeas Corpus, one of the most important and ancient cornerstones of English law.
The rule forces the authorities to bring a prisoner to court - or to explain why they cannot do so. It was originally developed to stop monarchs making their enemies disappear without trace.
** UK requests return of US detainee **
The British government...
Russell Hoban: Disappearances →
Was the late Russell Hoban an object-oriented ontologist? How’s this sound?
More and more I find life is a series of disappearances followed usually but not always by reappearances; you disappear from your morning self and reappear as your afternoon self; you disappear from feeling good and reappear feeling bad. And people, even face to face and clasped in each other’s arms, disappear from each...
Slick IT: WebDAV on Windows 7 →