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Posted on June 16, 2019June 16, 2019

The late Michel Serres on angels and messengers

At the start of this month, the French thinker Michel Serres died aged 88. He had an eclectic range of interests, as evinced by his Wikipedia page: Over the next…

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Posted on April 20, 2019April 14, 2019

#AprilCountry, “Satan is Real”, The Louvin Brothers

It would be easy to mock the Louvin Brothers’ “Satan Is Real”, with its lurid and rather literal cover. Easy that is, until you listen to a song of evident…

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Posted on December 16, 2018

A first hand account of being in the eye of an online shame hurricane – “Shame Storm”, Helen Andrews |

At First Things, a highly thought-provoking essay by Helen Andrews on online shaming, and specifically her own experience. One of the most repellent features of online and social media discourse,…

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Posted on December 14, 2018

Don’t trust Alexa Crazy Fact: the name “Wendy” wasn’t invented for Peter Pan (and pig orgasms don’t quite last as long as all that)

One of the skills of Amazon’s Alexa is Crazy Fact. This skills allows Alexa to pop up with a fact which is a little unusual or offbeat. From this, I learnt…

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Posted on November 25, 2018November 25, 2018

Ricky Jay RIP

Ricky Jay, scholar of magic and mountebanks, “the greatest sleight of hand artist of his generation”, has died Here is a 1993 New Yorker profile of this extraordinary man. It…

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Posted on November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

The perils of double bluffs – Operation Ottrington

A while back I posted on the unintended consequences of too secret a secret codeword.  Here’s a bit from Jonathan Gawne’s “Ghosts of the ETO: American Tactical Deception Units in the…

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