I (supposedly) write like

I write like
Cory Doctorow

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

This is the "badge" that was generated when I inputted my text from "At least you can afford shoes", below. Apparently I Write Like is the newest thing, for people who have time to kill and require flattery and haute distractions. I heard about "I write like" from Jim Macdonald, here.

(Incidentally I inputted the verbiage from the Euronews interview with Elif Şafak, and "I write like" decided the unnamed blurb writer is just like Kurt Vonnegut.)

Short Night

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and,from th' Onion:"Four Or Five Guys Pretty Much Carry Whole Renaissance"

"...Our research indicates that da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, and Galileo basically hoisted the entire intellectual transformation of mankind onto their shoulders while everyone else just sat around being superstitious nimrods," said Sue Viero of the Correr Museum of Art in Venice, Italy. "Here's da Vinci busting his ass to paint such masterpieces as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, while some loser like Albrecht Dürer is doing these dinky little woodcuts that are basically worthless."

bicycling fun

via salon.com

Joe Biden and friend

Reuters

I'm tempted to have a caption contest, but nobody ever leaves any comments lately, so I don't think there's much point. Besides, you'd probably want some kind of prize if you won, like crackers or something.

Wednesday 17 Dec 2008

from "The BBC at work - Points of View, 1962", and...