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St Lubbock's Day 27 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
Just a very quick link to The Virtual Linguist who informs us that today (a Bank Holiday in England) is St Lubbock's Day. So known because the Bank Holidays Act of 1871 was pushed through by the Liber...
This Is Getting Silly 14 Aug 2013 | 05:09 pm
It appears that what I consider an annoying Monday afternoon, a frustrating hour that can be forgotten after a good sherry, is now international news. French, Germans, Czechs and Turks, have thrown aw...
Flype 12 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
I've just come back from the Edinburgh Book Festival, where I had a lovely Scottish time drinking whisky and balancing books on my head. If you like, you can hear me on the Guardian Books Podcast chat...
Don't Feed the Troll Fishers 9 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
I've been reading Netymology by Tom Chatfield. It's all about the etymology of computer terms. Thus I have discovered that trolls do not come from Scandinavia and lurk under bridges. They come from al...
Hamlet is Banned 7 Aug 2013 | 05:32 pm
On Monday, I was sitting in the British Library frantically trying to write my new book in a shturmovshchina. I had to quickly check a particular line in Hamlet, so I Googled Hamlet MIT, because the M...
Magazines and Time and Time Magazine 5 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
I'm feeling all uppity today, thanks to Time Magazine's lists of the 25 bloggers of 2013, which for some reason contains me. As a result, it seems appropriate to explain why magazines are called magaz...
Bob Dylan and Slutbags 2 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
Just a couple of links today. One to the stifling world of right-on political correctness that is Liverpool FC, and the other to the foul-mouthed world of twats and slutbags that is the US Democrat Pa...
Shebang 29 Jul 2013 | 01:22 pm
I happened to read the word shebang yesterday and, perhaps it was seeing it in print, I suddenly realised that I had no idea what it really meant or where it came from. The whole shebang. A shebang wa...
Sun-Bathing and Philosophy 24 Jul 2013 | 04:25 pm
Just a repost. There's a rather strange work by Thomas Nashe called Summer's Last Will and Testament. It is about the handover of seasons in the changing year. In it, Winter describes how writing was...
Terms of Engagement 19 Jul 2013 | 03:11 pm
Rob Colvile gave the Inky Fool a mention in his Telegraph column yesterday. He was referring to a post from 2009 by Mrs Malaprop and how it had influenced his proposal of marriage. So I may as well re...
