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Silhouettes and Shillelaghs
2007-11-29 13:05:00 The hominid Peter Cox Fantastic party last night to celebrate children’s publisher Egmont’s expansion into the US market. Egmont is a wonderful publisher, and are well ahead of the pack in terms of their ethical business practices, particularly with regard to their environmental impact - something of growing concern to many of my authors and indeed ...
Stumped!
2007-11-28 02:49:00 How do they do this? I?m utterly mystified! Please, gentle reader, enlighten me? Share This
Eye Spy
2007-11-26 10:28:00 I have a horrible feeling that, sooner or later (and very probably, far sooner than you?d expect) this technology will be used to provide editorial feedback on manuscripts. ?Fantastic job, William darling! But the Eye Tracking says that people are skipping chapters 2 thru 20, can you just have a teensy little look at ...
Vegan Thanksgiving
2007-11-23 13:02:00 So, unbelievers and infidels, you thought that we vegans had a miserable time at Thanksgiving , did you? Let me show you the error of your ways! This was our menu last night: Thanksgiving Day Menu Welcome: Rosemary Ale Fresh Organic French Walnuts Starter: Sorrel Soup Sourdough Bread Main: 3-Grain Medley of Quinoa, Brown Basmati & Minnesota Wild Rice Roasted Orkney Red ... More About: Vegan , Hank
Madeleine McCann/Laura Palmer
2007-11-20 10:35:00 Watching last night?s Panorama program on the disappearance of four year-old Madeleine McCann, I became aware at least twice that the program makers were using, as a soundtrack , the haunting theme that composer Angelo Badalamenti produced for David Lynch?s television epic Twin Peaks. Lynch?s series, as you may remember, deals with an FBI agent?s attempt ... More About: Palmer , Laura , Mccann
The Strike Gets Viral
2007-11-19 16:04:00 As you might expect, members of the the Writers Guild of America, West are putting their talents to create some pretty powerful communications material while engaged in their dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. I particularly like these three videos from YouTube. And what a great way to get the viral ... More About: Viral , Strike
Judith Regan Sues HarperCollins
2007-11-14 17:55:00 The publishing world loves a good soap opera ? see, as proof, my recent piece about the current PFD debacle ? and here is our next instalment. The larger-than-life Judith Regan, erstwhile publisher of the eponymous HarperCollins imprint, is suing her former employer for $100m. Judith also has to cope with the ... More About: Judith Regan
First Sight of The Joshua Files
2007-11-13 08:00:00 The children’s publishing world is amazingly creative about book design, but I’ve rarely seen such a stunning book jacket as Scholastic ’s extraordinary cover for the hugely-anticipated THE JOSHUA FILES by MG Harris. This meeting, last week, was the first time I saw it in the ... More About: Publishing , Files , Joshua , Sight
The War on Boyhood
2007-11-12 15:38:00 Tonight?s ?Panorama? programme discloses that thousands of British children with ?behavioural problems? are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs with dangerous side effects. The powerful tranquillisers, designed to treat psychosis and schizophrenia in adults, are often being used to calm children who are simply “hyperactive”. The situation is even worse in the States (and it will get worse here ...
L?été se meurt?
2007-11-08 08:29:00 It’s clearly Autumn here in London town. two photos from Green Park, just off Piccadilly… Share This
Running On Empty
2007-11-07 08:03:00 I mentioned the concept of ?Peak Oil? ? which is getting more mainstream media coverage now ? in a earlier post. Here, not for the statistically faint-hearted, is an interesting debate on exactly where we are now (no-one can be certain) and where we might be in a few short years. This latest statistical work ... More About: Running , Empty
Conspiracy Theory
2007-11-06 08:09:00 In 1933, a group of American businessmen (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush?s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. So they instigated a coup. Their treasonous plottings were aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the ... More About: Rants , Theory , Conspiracy , Conspiracy Theory , Theo
Perfidy!
2007-11-05 11:16:00 ?When I arrived at the company in August there had already been two offers for the business in the region of £8m. The agents having sold their business to CSS Stellar for £12m were offering in the region of £4m and taking whatever persuasive measures they could, including mass resignations, to ensure that CSS had ...
Neat Xmas Present?
2007-11-05 08:11:00 Using the power of the internet, Kiva is a website that lets you loan money (very small amounts of money by Western standards) to small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the ... More About: Present , Xmas , Resent
Quo Vadis, Miss Snark?
2007-11-03 17:21:00 I?ve always rather slyly admired Miss Snark, the hard-bitten, hard-drinking and altogether hard nameless NY literary agent who has constantly blogged for these past two years. What with one thing and another, I hadn?t looked at her blog for several months ? and was saddened to see that she?s closed it, as of 20th May ... More About: Quo Vadis
Oil Has Peaked - Official
2007-10-27 09:00:00 If you live anything other than a 100% self-sufficient lifestyle, this new study (apart from explaining the logic behind the Iraq war) is some of the most important news this year. I?m still digesting it ? but mark my words ? times are a changing. Share This More About: Rants , Official
War Criminal Strikes Jackpot
2007-10-26 11:28:00 And now for the least surprising book deal of the year: Random House has won the battle for Tony Blair’s memoirs. The book will be published in the UK by Hutchinson, and by Alfred A Knopf in the US and Canada. The fee paid has not been disclosed but estimates reported in the UK press suggest ... More About: Criminal , Jackpot , Mina
A Million Terrorists, And You May Be One Of Them
2007-10-25 12:41:00 The No-Fly list is being expanded again ?will soon top 1m. Are there really that many terrorists in the world? The comments on this piece are revealing: ??this ruined my career. I used to be a consultant with Accenture and travelled constantly, including internationally. Having to spend 6 to 7 hours every single week at special ... More About: Rants , Terrorists , Million
Alan Coren
2007-10-24 16:24:00 I was so sorry to hear about Alan Coren?s death. As luck would have it, I found myself sitting opposite him at dinner just a few weeks ago. He?d always been a childhood ?hero of wit? for me, so it was quite a thrill. Although he smoked his way through dinner, he seemed in pretty ...
Belly Dancing weekend
2007-10-22 11:27:00 It’s picture week at pc.info. Let’s kick thing off with a bang: Share This More About: Dancing , Weekend , Belly
Photos from The March
2007-10-08 19:59:00 Tony Benn, speaking at the foot of Nelson’s Column, Brian Eno, seated right. The speeches were uniformly excellent - the best I’ve ever heard on a march - Brian Haw’s was extraordinary and deeply moving. Trafalgar Square was full ? I?d say about 7500 people. The march stretching all the way ... More About: Photos , March
Latest on Tomorrow?s March
2007-10-07 12:15:00 As you may know, I am planning to steward the Stop the War march tomorrow (after having some stitches out in the morning). Here is the latest on what may be a difficult day ahead. After having initially worked with the organisers in the usual way, the Metropolitan Police abruptly and arbitrarily decided that ... More About: March , Tomorrow , Morrow , Tomo
McGame
2007-10-06 09:00:00 This is one cool game. If you have a McAddicted partner or offspring, send them the link: http://www.mcvideogame.com/game-eng.html Meantime, I’m playing around with Office 2007. It’s a weird experience having to totally relearn Word: I use it so much that it’s become instinctive, and none of the new commands are anywhere remotely close ...
Chick Pea Tales Postscript: Hummus
2007-10-05 09:00:00 Serves 4-6 Preparation time 1 hour 15 minutes, plus soaking overnight 450g (1lb) dried chickpeas, washed and drained juice of 5 lemons 1 bulb garlic, peeled and finely chopped 450g (1lb) tahini 1 tsp salt, or to taste 140-285ml (1/4-1/2 pint) water 1/2 tsp paprika Turn the washed chickpeas into a large bowl and cover them with clean water. Leave to soak overnight ... More About: Chick , Tales
Tony Benn?s Letter To The Home Secretary
2007-10-04 09:48:00 To: The Right Hon Jacqui Smith MP Home Secretary House of Commons London SW1A OAA Dear Home Secretary , I am writing to you as President of the STOP THE WAR COALITION, to give you advance notice that there will be a demonstration in Trafalgar Square the day Parliament meets calling for the immediate withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq ... More About: Letter , Tony
Chick Pea Tales Three: The Chick Pea Chronicles
2007-10-04 09:00:00 History may be written by the victors, but it is spoken by ordinary people. Which is how, in the everyday language of peasants, farmers, merchants and townsfolk, we are able to decode the secret history of things which the official historians do not record. For example, we know that the European chickpea arrived ... More About: Chick , Tales , Chronicles
Chick Pea Tales Two: Lunch With Genghis Khan
2007-10-03 09:00:00 Although history is usually written on plants ? specifically, trees ? it is rarely written about them. The injustice of this is painful. We will, for example, never know the identity of the chickpea’s first quick-witted gleaner; whereas the brutal deeds of the Mongol tyrant Genghis Khan ? whose bloodthirsty horsemen could ... More About: Lunch , Chick , Tales
Chick Pea Tales One: A Fixation For Nitrogen
More articles from this author:2007-10-02 09:00:00 Cicer arietinum ? “strong ramshead” ? leads a life of the most exquisite harmony with a species of remarkable bacteria in the earth. In the first week after sowing, the chickpea thrusts down an intrepid taproot ? a combined anchor, food store and sophisticated search and absorption system for water and other vital ... More About: Chick , Tales , Nitrogen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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