An alleged librarian has demostrated his thorough training and professional skills with the following review of Da The Vinci Code, as found by The Da Vinci Hoax weblog on a bookseller’s website: Brandon Vanover (firekiller814@hotmail.com), a Librarian, March 20, 2006,…
Unusual radio stations, or, How to offer criticism of two radio stations I’ve never even listened to
One product of the podcastItuneStreaMedia and all that newfangled kind of thing seems to be the introduction of new and interesting radio stations. For example, there is the now established LugRadio, a fortnightly British radio show that takes a relaxed,…
Tinyurl
I’ve yet to use it, but tinyurl looks very useful. You can submit a url such as http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=426940&Y=541132&A=Y&Z=1 and register it a short form such as http://tinyurl.com/jz258, which is more convenient to put in email, etc. Try it. This is…
Tradition
There was a very interesting post last week at Crooked Timber about how traditional modern society is: …we are now living in a society that’s far more tradition-bound than that of the 19th Century, and in some respects more so…
Mozart
Coming home latish on Friday, we went past Budgens in Sandy. There were some youths a little distance away, who were presumably deterred from actually blocking the entrance to the supermarket by the sounds of Mozart’s Requiem being played in…
Lewis Perdue and the Dan Vinci Code case
Earlier today I came across The Da Vinci Crock, a weblog detailing the progress of the Dan Holy Vinci case. (Be careful accessing the site, using Mozilla at least, as a highly annoying pop-up pops us trying to elicit money…
The cost of justice
For the past week British taxpayers have been paying a High Court judge just under £3000 to read the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code. From the BBC today: The case resumed on Tuesday after…