February 8, 2005

Hear that? That’s the sound of Professor Mark Grimsley and friends interrogating the project of military history. They’ve dragged it into a windowless seminar room to slap it around, maybe turn on the white noise. Goddamn projects – it’s all they deserve. It’s certainly an interesting blog, even though the curious structure makes it a…

With the announcement of Labour’s new immigration policy, we can at last be entirely sure that the extended election campaign has gripped home. And it’s ugly, dammit. Both big parties are now committed to a policy of dramatic cuts in immigration and of a whole new philosophy on this issue. Crucially, the proposals Charles Clarke…

Here we have the site of some Swedes and their football-shaped robot, designed for planetary exploration and being commercialised for security patrolling. There’s an interesting video. Via Schockwellenreiter. Also check out this (German) report on a similar NASA project, a large white sphere blown by the wind across Antarctica…does anyone feel that they watch The…

or is it everyone else? When you encounter things like this, you wonder. Especially when you see some other bloggers’ responses, especially Brad DeLong who ought to know better. Apparently it’s ridiculous to, uh, switch off the computer when you aren’t using it. Why would anyone do anything else? Do these people really think it’s…