Monthly Archive: August 2002

So checking the web stats today, I see somebody found my site from this Google search. Well, it is the week of Burning Man, ma ybe t here’s som e connection?

Well sadly this morning’s Google doesn’t think I’m an Irish Porn Star at all. This is kind of sad. I guess recency counts for a huge component of PageRank, but that it’s contribution (obviously)...

And On The Seventh Day God Created Manchester… The Second Summer Of Love… We went to see a remarkable movie at the weekend in the Embarcadero – 24 Hour Party People. It’s a cool...

A new Justice Department report confirms that nearly one in every thirty US citizens is trapped within the “criminal justice system”. Earlier here.

I really liked this expose of bad policing. At last it explains to me just why around a dozen cop cars arrive at trivial and insignificant car crashes in San Francisco and hang out...

While I’m prepared to continue to treat this article with some degree of interest (despite obviously sycophantic and pandering sentences such as youthful, exuberant, multi-coloured America and ageing, decrepit, inward-looking Europe), I see three...

Well, that was easy. I now show up as the first hit on Google for Irish Porn Star. But coming in a close second (or is it third?) for the slight variation of Irish...

So there’s a secret Federal court that oversees domestic spying and surveillance, and apparently they feel that Mullah Ashcroft’s Justice Department was abusing its powers even before September 11th. They’ve rebuked him publicly, which...

There’s a nice article by Andrew Cockburn about the latest EU anchluss referendum in Ireland.

There’s a review of a food history book here, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, with this illuminating excerpt: Fern�ndez-Armesto kicks off his chapter on food and symbolism with an enthusiastic discussion...