I also posted several items in February reflecting on my life and what I wanted to do. I'm going to pull those out to a separate item.
February 27, 2006
Frivolous and Various Links
- MSN - various little health hacks
- Arbury Camp - the website for what’s happening in that mudbath full of bulldozers just north of Kings Hedges Road.
- NYTimes - [no reg] intelligence linked to calculated risk taking
- WaPo - interesting article about a children’s entertainer in the DC area. Oblique comment on the child-rearing culture, and much more (it would spoil it if I told you).
- Guardian via Chris L - children tested on a standardised developmental basis are not as advanced now as they were 15 years ago. Education, education, education.
- via Chris L - George Orwell’s school memories
- What qualities do parents want in their children?
February 23, 2006
Political Links
- The K Street Project - good summary of the background to the whole Abramoff corruption story now playing out in the US
- Will Iran be Next - fantastic piece from The Atlantic on a desktop exercise to wargame US options for Iran. Conclusion: basically the Iranians won the Iraq war.
- The Torture Papers - The New Yorker on the background legal justifications for torture at Gitmo, Abu Ghraib etc. Fascinating and disturbing in equal parts.
- Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - David Howarth (Cambridge MP) in the Times on new insanity from our government. See - it’s not just the Americans.
February 10, 2006
Quote from Mrs F
We’re watching TV when an ad comes on for the George Foreman grill. My wife turns to me and says,
“Is that the George Foreman that fought Idi Amin?”
I would have liked to see that fight.
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