When watching a film from 1935 you cannot apply what you know about movies to it. On the one hand, surely most of what you have seen was produced in the last 20 or 30 years. On the other hand, a movie like The 39 Steps has shaped all that has come after it.
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Because posting entries about my life would be terribly boring for everyone, I'll post instead what gave me yesterday a much-needed boost (particularly since the night before I got The Judgemen as my 'daily card'): I'm not totally stupid, you see and I feel incredibly proud of myself after reading about the Axiom of Choice and understanding a ( ( Read more... )

Source: The Times

April 14, 2010
The single mother's manifesto
David Cameron says the ‘nasty party’ that castigated people like me has changed. I’m not buying it
J.K. Rowling

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Camilla Läckberg is a Swedish writer of crime books. I read the first one and loved it: "She's a writer, he's a policeman. Together, they fight crime ( Read more... )

I just found this article on Harper's website and I'm only copying here because after a while they're only available for suscribers and I'd like to keep it ( Read more... )

From here:

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Wheeee!

( Here be spoilers )

Craig Murray: activista contra las torturas. Antiguo embajador de UK en Uzbekistan de donde le echaron por denunciar las torturas que llevaba a acabo el gobierno ( Read more... )

So tonight I dreamed I was playing a Lego game. As in, inside the game. It took a while to get that blue stud, I had to grab a column in a way you can't do in Lego: Star Wars. It was a desert setting and I think it was some kind of Lego: Prince of Persia or something.

Surely this doesn't mean I should play less, right? Right.

I was reading this post about 10 horrible experiments made on humans recently and reading more about the Micronesia nuclear bombing I found this other page with more information about it and a beautiful quote by my BFF Henry Kissinger:

Henry Kissinger famously expressed his opinion of Micronesia and its people in the 1970s. “There are only 90,000 ( Read more... )