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Time was, The Rolling Stones, Iron Maiden & Kiss were perceived as a threats to the maidenheads of our sisters, daughters & nieces. I offer you this with no (need for) comment:
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Date that famous hottie you've had your eye on and show the Bimbo world the social starlet you are !
Even resort to meds or plastic surgery. Stop at nothing to become the reigning bimbo !
If you really can't come up with something intelligent for an Internet Start-up, try mugging. At least you'll have the moral high-ground.
Copyright. Intellectual property. Boy wizards. Millionaire authors. Global corporations. All served up with a garnish of greed and hypocrisy. Could this kill off centuries of literary criticism & commentary? Will JK, sorry, JC raise objections to New Testament concordances? All a bit sad really...
...and at least I wash the bloody things afterwards.
The Guardian is publishing a series of seven (count 'em) booklets on Great Poets of the 20th Century. No MacDiarmid, MacCaig, GMB, etc. Eliot, Auden, Larkin, Hughes, Plath, Sassoon and Heaney. A selection of the poems with a commentary from a leading author / poet / person. Still it's worth 80p of your money. Is it coincidence that The Independent is running a parallel series called The Great Poets? And whilst we're on a poetical bent this seems like a good time to highlight Don Colman's guest feature on the Open Culture website / blog (March 6), Listening to Famous Poets Reading Their Own Work.
It's been that kind of day, what with the breakfast blizzard, the cracked windscreen, the forgotten MOT, the hungry rats of Byres Road bringing down the sainted JANET, not to mention the slew of meetings and the only thing on the TV is another chance to see Local Hero (OK, so the last mentioned ain't that bad). So we sit down with a glass of Glenfarclas 25YO, to read the latest edition of CILIPS Information Scotland (February 2008) to find that Moodle has been taken over by Google, as in "Moodle which is a free Google product". (This info ain't on the web-edition yet, so don't rush). It would appear that even Open Source champions have their price. Or maybe someone didn't do their homework?
Ah, well. Back to the digital beachcombing...
...and here's a nice digital library coming along right now from our good friends at the Office of National Statistics. Could save your non-virtual library budget a few hundred a year.
