Fragano Ledgister #7: and contrariwise (i.e. I order from amazon.com fairly frequently, and they have no problem delivering to me in the United Kingdom).
Then you would probably enjoy the Spaghetti Western Orchestra's appropriately reverential live peformances. (They were also at Edinburgh a few years back, at the same time as the Ukes -- what culture!)
Steve@#13: Correct, my lyrical flub -- "Silver Machine" by Hawkwind it was.
Heh. I heard them play "Silver Dream Machine" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the Edinburgh Festival a few years back. By the way, there is an MP3 selection and a concert DVD at their site.
I enjoyed CNN's headline, and wonder what those White House touts will be getting up to next.
Strangely, White House tools 'retouted' Iraq mission would have made just as much sense.
#11: Is principal components analysis too syllabic for you, Greg? Chris L. says, "Principal components analysis picks out the combinations of the divisions which (in some sense) best explain the variations in the data" in that blog-entry I linked to above.
@#7 Dave Bell: The UK system has much stronger parties, much more voting on party instruction, so this wouldn't work well.
But it's still pretty to look at if somebody tries (link is to Chris Lightfoot's excellent weblog). NB: the links at the bottom give you an exciting interactive experience exploring what our UK members are up to, which is more than you usually get from Parliament.
"Take arms against a sea of troubles" is a mixed metaphor,So did Caligula. (Although, to be fair, he may only have done so because some Celtic ur-Cuchulain figure had done it already, and the Gauls expected it of him).
nobody would actually take arms against the sea.
Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea.
Cheers again, Nick
There's a recent article about Jack Vance and Frank Herbert in Cosmopolis (the online zine of the glorious Vance Integral Edition project): http://www.vie-tracking.com/cosmo/Cosmopolis-60.pdf (534 kb PDF).
Vance recalls that one day Herbert enthusiastically
described his idea for a big novel about a desert
planet, giant sand worms, Spacing Guilds, and more, and
asked Vance what he thought. Vance wasn’t particularly
impressed but nodded and made polite noises (he never
really cared for Frank Herbert’s stories because so many
of them contained an element of mysticism). Later, after
Dune became a huge success, Vance was surprised and
amused when Herbert told interviewers that it was all
thanks to Jack Vance’s encouragement!
Cheers, Nick
Ilona: he's most likely worried about his seat
(muffled snickering).
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