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Tags are all the rage, eh? Everywhere we click, there it is. But this post isn’t about “tags”, but the uses to which these things are put to.
Visit technorati.com or the ever popular del.icio.us and you are confronted by a list of what is popular, which term is most searched for, lusted after. Indeed, the [...]

We know how bibliophiles are a little compulsive - as in obsessive compulsive - so Jim Spalding’s library project is a curse. Library Thing is a social cataloguing experience; essentially, it allows the average compulsive amongst us to catalogue our most noble of extravagances and, what’s more, with its built-in cross-referencing tool, lets OCDs / [...]

Homosexuals, even those who are celibate, will be barred from becoming Roman Catholic priests, a church official said Wednesday, under stricter rules soon to be released on one of the most sensitive issues facing the church
This statement - in today’s New York Times - has put me in a spin. While there is a case [...]

Gillian Rose would have celebrated her 58th birthday today.
Politics begins not when you organise to defend an individual or particular or local interest, but when you organise to further the ‘general’ interest within which your particular interest may be represented - Mourning Becomes the Law p 16

The International Herald Tribune reports on the death sentence passed on Iwan Darmawan for his part in the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta in 2004. So pleased was he that Darmawan told reporters:
I am thankful for being sentenced to death. I am happy because I will die a martyr
Now let’s get this straight. [...]

Dubya-Emdee [dub' -yuh -em -dee] n. an imaginary threat, upon which is based an extreme action.
Susan Henderson, writing in McSweeney’s The Future Dictionary of America.

Our fears are not unfounded.
I have long come to terms with the evil axis that exists between yoga and surfing: the postures and style, the serenity within both, plus the contributions they make toward increasing my Cool potency - at least in my mind.
Now the Circle is encircled, the triumvirate Trinitised. The terrain of [...]

$ingapore is … I had given up on this place - the passivity of its people, the disabling environment filled with muted veracity, stunted copy-cat beauty, Compliance. There is nothing here. I can go.
Until 8 white elephants were discovered in the heart of this concrete cage.
Punggol South residents have tried again to get Buangkok MRT [...]

I’m going to Hell anyway, so this should merely accelerate the process.
My first nomination for the newly inaugurated “Dumb Book Concept of the Week” award goes to Don Colbert (and his agent) for The What Would Jesus Eat Cookbook. Don, if you’re looking to corner the lucrative Far Right Christian Fundamentalist reading market, you’re on [...]

has started quite a racket over at The Believer: a monthly column startlingly entitled “STUFF I’VE BEEN READING”. Now, I like Nick - despite his Gooner inclination - and quite a bit since he decided to jump inside my head and take notes of what was going on in there. The resultant book, High Fidelity, [...]