February 2006
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Wine, blogs, the media and me
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Readers may remember the ongoing saga of my bottle of Stormhoek Wine: they gave bottles away to any UK blogger who asked for one, hoping that we would say something — anything — about their wine. I, unfortunately, lost my bottle, but they patiently sent me another. And another, after I kvetched about the lack…
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Gonzo Lama
Today is the anniversary of the death of Hunter Thompson. In commemoration, his wife is offering this picture, along with the quote, “At the top of the mountain, we are all snow leopards” — Dr Hunter S. Thompson (although, as pointed out in the comments, it’s not Hunter, but Hemmingway). Without his usual guns, pills…
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“I’m the guy who pulled the trigger”
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Dick Cheney, noted hunter, marksman and friend of the National Rifle Association, admitted today that it was his fault that he shot his friend, not that of the guy who received a face full of birdshot. Thanks, Mr. Vice President, for clearing that up. Update: The victim, Harry Whittington, has since come out of the…
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Dark Matter: Warm or Cold?
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This morning I woke to find that most of the UK media outlets (like the Guardian and the BBC) were carrying a story that astronomers, in particular a team lead by Gerry Gilmore of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, had unlocked some of the secrets of Dark Matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up, we think,…
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You already know what I think
There’s no need to comment on: NASA says — and forces all of its public statements to say — that The Big Bang is just a “theory”. (But there’s no lack of opinion out there, at Cosmic Variance, Bad Astronomy, Pharyngula, Balloon Juice, Stranger Fruit, Gary Farber, and Mark Kleiman…) The closure of the London…
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