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This may be a sign that Burning Man is heading for a Glastonbury-style overpopularity crisis... http://twshot.com/?2H0
August 20, 2008 in Tweets | 0 comments

I've noticed bbc radio headlines never say 'has died' when it was an accident. It's always 'two men died'. I wonder why?
August 19, 2008 in Tweets | 0 comments

Great show on npr recently about Brooklyn congressman Ed Townsend, 74, being challenged by Kevi... Read more at http://tinyurl.com/5wn2ss
August 18, 2008 in Tweets | 0 comments

Hence you can “sanction” someone’s doing something, but also apply “sanctions” against them for doing it.

Is there a word for words with two opposite definitions?

The Mail’s “Great to be British” headline kind of neatly sums up the essential attitude of the newspapers these days. When bad things happen (crime, global economic downturn), it’s always the Government’s fault, never society’s. When good things, happen, it’s all the country’s achievement, and never the Government’s, despite all the important work DCMS have done behind the scenes to get us this far.

I use cocomment to record the comments I make on other blogs and put them in the blue box you see on the right of the page. But I’m going to experiment with using a plugin to import such comments right into this blog, to keep all my web-writing in one place. Let me know if you love this, hate it, or if it just doesn’t seem to be working.

'CoolIris. Formerly known as PicLens.' this strikes me as pretty much one shit name after another.
August 15, 2008 in Tweets | 0 comments

This is one a comment on Too Slick by Half (www.commentarymagazine.com)

ravcasleygera says:

Well look, you're right about the details, and O does look a bit stupid. But there's a reason why people want to hear about McCain's ties to oil and not Obama's, dummies: it's because McCain's spun on a sixpence to support offshore drilling. It then warrants serious scrutiny how much money he's getting from oil. Obama's infuriated the oil companies with his opposition to offshore oil, so nobody seriously believes he's being bought.

My verdict? Cock-up, rather than conspiracy. The DNC chose the $2bn figure without totally taking on board that it included employee donations - and clearly without checking the figure for O. Stupid, yes. But it doesn't obscure the wider point - that the once fiercely independent McCain seems to be fiddling to the oil companies' tune - which you can't say about O.

This is one a comment on New Statesman - Woolly minded hippies? (www.newstatesman.com)

ravcasleygera says:

Oh, come on. What? Really? So it was nice, and practical, and not full of trots. Fantastic! But let's not spoil it by suggesting that the government should be listening to the campers for policy proposals. The fact that DEFRA is studying personal energy allowance trading illustrates the point - the government is perfectly prepared to look at radical ideas, as are a huge industry of experts, think-tanks and even businesses. But the will is required to implement them. That's what the camp's there to do: it's a protest!

In the first series of Big Brother, I remember the housemates speculating after “Nasty Nick” was thrown out about any possible press coverage. Most of them were incredulous at the idea that it would be in the newspapers at all. Of course, it was splashed all over the front pages for days.

Last week, model MaySoon left the house voluntarily, and the housemates spent an hour imagining possible headlines: “See MaySoon,” etc. Actually, though, it barely made it into the papers at all…

This is one a comment on Israel | Ehud Olmert says he’ll go, at last | Economist.com (www.economist.com)

ravcasleygera says:

To what extent is the Lebanon war deemed to have precipitated the Hamas election victory? Because surely that is the true point when the West Bank disengagement plan fell apart. Lebanon was poison to Olmert's personal reputation, but the West Bank disengagement had been such a clear part of Kadima's election manifesto, he might still have been able to pull it off had Fatah retained control.

The Iranian stoning ban is obv great news and v interesting. But it'll be depressing watching the neocons take credit for it
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Everything pretty much back to normal. Tags and categories on the main site still messed up. Let me know of any other problems.

The articles section of this site, at the root www.casleygera.com, has been replaced by - well, by a bare-bones wordpress blog called “fuckoff”. I don’t know when, or why, this has happened. I also don’t know how to fix it. I’m basically mad as hell.

scrabulous update: apparently it's more complicated than it seems http://twshot.com/?1ZQ
August 4, 2008 in Tweets | 0 comments

plat, originally uploaded by Rav Casley Gera.

I’m getting a bit obsessed with railway platforms. It’s the geometry

31072008276.jpg, originally uploaded by Rav Casley Gera.

For all its flaws - it being a neo-fascist lie-packed hell-rag, for example - there is something vaguely marvellous about the Daily Mail’s utter refusal to enter the post-Thatcher era. This spread could literally have been designed in 1988. Look at those fonts! And that absurd stock picture. The guy is juggling a *rolodex*, for god’s sake!

Mind you, round spectacles *are* back, so…

Scrabulous has to be the stupidest short-sighted IP enforcement ever. How much goodwill was it ... Read more at http://tinyurl.com/5hfro2
July 31, 2008 in Tweets | 0 comments

tomorrow, "Peter Hain: Dennis Skinner is working class"
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