Monthly Archives: November 2007

Floating in a tin can

November 2, 2007 – 2:02 pm

(Photo fitaloon)
You’ve made your gazillions and now you need somewhere to get away from it all, a place that’s safe and secure, secluded but not too far from civilisation? You like messing around in boats? Of course you own your own helicopter? Then have we got the place for a swashbuckler like you!
As The Independent [...]

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Oink!

November 2, 2007 – 12:58 pm

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear but you can make a Vulcan’s ear out of a human ear…

no, hang on, you can’t, it’s all a fake, dammit, there goes the joke about women are from Mars and men are from Vulcan.
Well, something about that reminded us that at least you [...]

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Spiralling out of control

November 2, 2007 – 11:59 am

A quick addendum to our last post. You can be sure that archaeological sites all over Iraq are in danger. The Art Newspaper has just reported this, a police barracks being built on a site next to Samarra’s famous spiral minaret.

Alastair Northedge, Professeur d’Art et d’Archeologie Islamiques, Universite de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) comments
From the [...]

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