Should film promoters cite only (or mainly) the views of recognised film critics when trying to publicise a film? Or should they use the views of bloggers and the general public? "There is a fear that it could spell the end of the critic. I’m hoping that it will highlight […]
In the Instapundit live coverage of the excellent Palin/Biden debate last night there was this: Reader David Rensin emails: "He didn’t just call the citizens of Bosnia ‘Bosniacs’, did he?" Yeah, he did… … Plus, Stephen Green emails: "Jim Dunnigan and Austin Bay use the word ‘Bosniaks’ in reference in Moslem […]
More on leak technology. Here is SpyBlog on an earlier example, asking rather shrilly how it is possible that a civil servant can walk out of a key British Government building carrying a sensitive Secret document. Well, it’s simple. Short of strip-searching all employees every day as they leave the […]
Sarah Palin did well last night in her debate with Joe Biden, and Biden in turn landed good shots. Democracy at work. Maybe despite all the spinning and media/blogosphere ravings one way or the other, Obama just has to keep it steady to win: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin […]
Just when I thought that there was nothing new to say on the subject of Leaked Ambassadors, along come two of them. First, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles is said to have described the Western mission in Afghanistan as ‘doomed‘. The source? A French diplomatic telegram leaked in Paris, said to be […]
Via Volokh Conspiracy an interesting account of the way top chess Grandmaster Vishy Anand prepares to face his rival Vladimir Kramnik over a long series of games. How best to focus Vishy’s analysis – on countering Kramnik’s likely strong systems, or hammering his (relatively) weaker ones? Which reminds me of the famous […]
Reader Willie Garvin asks (via my previous post): How many of the 47 states that have recognised Kosovo as independent have done so for reasons other that the belief it was the right thing to do for the region and international relations in general? I mean, how many Croatias are […]
President Tadic has hinted that Serbia will contemplate partition of Kosovo if "every other possibility is exhausted". Oops. What he meant to say was that he was not suggesting partition, merely mentioning a purely hypothetical possibility. If all other possibilities are exhausted. Hypothetically speaking. Down the road Montenegro is being […]
Via Tim Worstall, a Guardian food twit called Rosie Boycott writes: … we also need to examine how we use the spaces in our cities to ensure that we have a chance of freeing ourselves from our current dependency on multinationals who have only their shareholders’ interests at heart – not […]
What an annoying problem it has been for so long, not being able to shoot someone hiding behind a wall or deep in a trench. What you need is a gun which sends out a shell which explodes just as it goes past or over the hiding-place, zapping the person lurking below. […]
