When cataloguing a book today (Awakening lives : autobiographies of Jewish youth in Poland before the Holocaust / edited by Jeffrey Shandler) I noticed that the CIP gave the Dewey number as 920.00929950332880835. I remember some long ones from university…
Right Wing Stuff
I stumbled across RightWingStuff.com where you can buy t-shirts saying Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions -G.K. Chesterton and Peace through superior firepower on them. There is also a link to a site where you can buy…
One Railway
Nick Barlow reports how the new rail franchise for East Anglia decided to call itself One Railway, or rather ‘one’ with the single quotes and lower case o. This is all very well (it’s not: it’s just wrong) until you…
Selling tea to China
Taylor’s of Harrogate have started exporting tea to China. According to the BBC, it is grown and blended in China, packaged in Britain, and sent back to China.
Just what Sandy needs
The (admittedly sponsored removable front page of) The Advertiser (for Biggleswade, Potton, Sandy and Gamlingay) has the headline: Kelly’s Tan and Nail Bar – just what Sandy needs No it isn’t! Apparently, this comment can be heard by the many…
Zoe on Leslie
This from Zoe (22) on the recent behaviour of Leslie Grantham: Zoe is stunned by new revelations of Leslie Grantham’s sordid internet sex chats. She says: I cannot believe he could get involved in something so seedy. It’s clearly not…
Cowthello hits and strange German
I would like to thank the kind people at Boxer-Forum.de who have increased the number of hits on Cowthello by a huge amount. If anyone could tell me what the German on that page says I would be most grateful;…
Cataloguers and Metadaters
In a discussion on the Jiscmail mailing list DC-GENERAL, which deals with general Dublin Core matters, a subscriber asked what to collectively call advocates of structured metadata. In one of my very few contributions to such lists, I suggested…
Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Go to http://www.mudam.lu/ and try to get to a site representing the Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean. All I wanted to do was find out about exhibition dates, not the nature of infinity.
Quads
A set of bovine quadruplets has been born in Norfolk, at odds of a billion to one, according to the BBC news. It’s good to see Norfolk at the forefront of developments in unusual genetics.