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More is Less

Friday, 10 June 2005

Clarkson again I’m afraid: Every day we are bombarded with surveys that tell us what the nation is thinking. These help shape government and corporate policy. Yet the people who are being questioned — you and me — have no clue what we’re talking about.

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Clarkson on Human Failings

Wednesday, 8 June 2005

…we all make mistakes, but the result of these mistakes varies drastically depending on the environment in which we make them. When a supermarket checkout girl incorrectly identifies a piece of broccoli as cabbage and you are over-charged by 15p, nobody really cares.

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Clarkson on the Middle East. And Weather

Tuesday, 7 June 2005

The night of 11 April 1981 was dry and unseasonably warm. I know this bacause it was my twenty-first birthday. It was also the night of the Brixton riots. Then there was Toxteth and it wasn’t raining on the television coverage of that, either.

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I did warn you

Monday, 6 June 2005

Clarkson on the EU and electricity: “How can it be that our MEPs have managed to homogenise a banana, yet they still allow each member state to offer a new and exciting way of getting electricity out of the wall?…. They launch the Euro, which means I won’t need a wallet that bulges with different [...]

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Bliss!

Monday, 6 June 2005

I nipped into Smith’s this lunchtime and fell upon this, the World According to Clarkson, the collected thought’s of Jeremy Clarkson as published in the Sunday Times from January 2001 to December 2003 in the Sunday Times.

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Revelations

Tuesday, 17 May 2005

I’ve never been a great fan of PC games, at least not those first person jobbies. The ones that require more fingers and thumbs than our maker/evolution ever intended; the hand eye coordination of a Top Gun fighter pilot genetically combined with Roger Federer; and the precision of a court stenographer, Oh, and the instinct [...]

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A Word to the Wise

Tuesday, 19 April 2005

That the Royal Mint is to issue a special 50p coin to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Samuel Johnson’s dictionary reminded me that he wasn’t really the first to think of this idea.

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Huzzah!

Sunday, 10 April 2005

A quick trip to Waterstones was called for this morning to snatch up a copy of the 12th volume of the Flashman Papers, Flashman on the March. (£13.99 at Waterstones where it is book of the month or £10.79 online, plus p+p.)

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Rule of Four

Sunday, 20 March 2005

Well, I managed to plough through 300+ pages of the Rule of Four in the last 24 hours and it was well worth it. The blurb sells it as another Da Vinci Code, which it is in the sense that the task of solving the secrets of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili are what carry you through [...]

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