- ‘This is not a love song’: I can stop thinking about you. /
You don’t drive me crazy. / I guess we had fun / but the details are hazy. - Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics
- ‘Very few people here believe they hate us for our freedoms. We think they hate us because our armies are in their countries.’ (Andrew Brown on salon.com)
- Bruce Mau: An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
- An addictive waste of time
- the best card trick in the world (involves information theory)
- Fox News: ‘the BBC almost operates as a foreign registered agent of Hezbollah and some of the other jihadist groups’ Roger Mosey, head of BBC Television News: ‘If I may leave our customary impartiality aside for a moment, the comments made on Fox News are beneath contempt.’
- an alternative to national service – the Crap Year
- What Bin Laden wants and why he wants it (he says)
- Was it the “very diversity, that melting pot aspect of London” that Islamist extremists found so offensive that they wanted to kill innocent civilians in Britain’s capital, Marr wondered. “No, it’s not that,” replied Gardner briskly, who is better acquainted with al-Qaida thinking than most. “What they find offensive are the policies of western governments and specifically the presence of western troops in Muslim lands, notably Iraq and Afghanistan.
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One reply on “Links for 16th of July 2005”
Damn you for posting the wasting-time game. I gave up when I saw level 6.