Friday fragments
On account of, well, long week and jetlag, things which are probably not going to get worked up into full posts.
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This government thing about sending every school in the land a copy of the Authorised Version (King James Bible)? WTF? Point what is there?
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One of the essays in Whedonistas, by a UKian person, says that Sunnydale High reminds her of her own schooldays. Again I make like a goldfish and say WTF, to me it is as the strange rites of exotic others, even without the supernatural element, but perhaps a highly academically focussed all girls grammar school in the 1960s is not the place to start comparisons from.
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Also with the WTF, came across today via a colleague a report that hard drives containing hospital records were being sold on eBay, though at least it turned out that this was not the relevant authority's mode of recycling (analogous to the incidents of files being dumped in open skips) but that someone on the staff had made off with them.
On another paw, however, relating to archival preservation, Dame Lynne Brindley of the British Library points out the ever-present dangers threatening digitally-created records.
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Talking of colleagues, I am so grateful that my immediate workmates are pretty much on the same page as me (and it is not the page with the full version of God Save the Queen on it, know what I mean?) about the upcoming long weekend. Cynicism abounding.
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This is both WTF and rather delightful: The best No 1 records: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - Legend of Xanadu 1968: It's a magnificent moment of mariachi melodrama and a reminder that pop can be silly and life-affirming in equal measure. It is definitely one of my somewhat secret favourites.
Click to viewAwww. I could almost get up and boogie.
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