Conspiracy, conspiracy

Enschede aan Zee -> French developer’s Flash CV in English and French. Why, tho, does his blog say “Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corporation”?

We’ve been wikipediad!

OK, it’s not the same as being instapunditted or slashdotted, but the link from here to here is still good for a few hits.

Sermon on the nount

More uses for a scissors than distinguished Viennese-Albertan dialect experts think.

Niceties

From the Washington Post: “Asked to respond to reports that Arafat is brain-dead, [French foreign minister Michel] Barnier replied, ‘I wouldn’t say that.'”

Blood and fire

Translation of the farewell poem recovered from the murderer of Theo van Gogh.

When is a telemarketer a stalker?

Just received six calls from Gas Natural‘s telemarketing department, the first cold and the rest increasingly warm. Basically, the woman refused to accept that I was not interested in the Christmas special offer and kept calling back. If there’s no law against this, then there should be soon, because it seems to be regarded as…

Schrödinger’s Arafat

This seemed to me an interesting view of the media-meets-multiple-state-man scenario we’re now in: In the Everett many-worlds interpretation, which does not single out observation as a special process, both states persist, but decohere. When an observer opens the box, he becomes entangled with the cat, so observer-states corresponding to the cat being alive and…

Flash mobbing

The public left-wing aggression, organised via mobiles, that I think most people accept was crucial in the Spanish elections this year is often taken as having been the first successful application of flash mobbing to politics. Dheera Sujan, in Gods and Monsters: the Saffronisation of India, a programme on the Dutch International Service, suggests that…