Jackie Danicki

Good.

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Antoine writes via email:
The Western Standard, among other things, the only regular media outlet for free-market views in Canada, is being sued by the Alberta Human Rights Commission following what looks like a bogus complaint about publishing the Danish cartoons.
Some of you can afford to donate money to the WS’s defence fund. Some of you […]

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I love this quotation, found thanks to Yahoo’s smart, delightful Susan Mernit:

The basic web unit is no longer a site, or even a page. It’s a piece of data. And that piece of data can appear anywhere.
That’s Peter De Vanzo. Of course this is about much, much more than mere permalinks, but as I am […]

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If I were a Muslim, I’d be more offended by London Underground thinking that the word ‘Muslim’ was offensive than I would be by this poster.

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I won’t be shopping there anymore. Now I just need to find out what Foyles’ stance is on freedom of speech. How depressing that I’m not overly confident that they are in favour.

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If you’re looking for a good hotel in Zaragoza to book for Innovate Europe 2006, I’d highly recommend Hotel Zenit Don Yo, where I stayed last year and will be staying once more this year. I booked through Venere.com and the whole process was hassle-free, from booking to check-out.
The one problem I did have with […]

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This Samizdata post of mine from yesterday has now attracted more than 70 comments, many of them about privatisation of currency. This reminds me of the time last year that I was trying to explain to a colleague about currency competition, and Googled “currency competition” to see what came up. The first result? Something on, […]

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After seeing it in their print catalogue, I waited the requisite 24 hours, and still I found myself thinking every hour, on the hour, about owning the large version of this pitcher. Fed up of wasting my brain space on such a matter, I shifted over to the House of Bath site to buy it.
What […]

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Dammit, Nancy (and our pal, the non-scum Anne Thompson, Deputy Film Editor of the Hollywood Reporter) made me do it, even though my work in the film industry has been ridiculously limited. (I’m not even on IMDB.)
ONE (1) earliest film-related memory: A very dark sea, stormy with lightning; ever so slowly, a tiny row boat […]

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I can’t get this quote from Atlas Shrugged out of my head right now:
I swear — by my life and my love of it — that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Can you imagine expecting another human being to live their life for […]

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The Guardian’s chief exec has announced that the newspaper company has made a £1million profit from the Guardian Unlimited website. That includes their many blogs.
Link via Grauniad man Simon Waldman

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There’s a better name for him, but Tom Elia beat me to it. JJ’s got an appropriate alternative, too.
What bugs me is that I have friends and acquaintances who are otherwise intelligent people - they don’t fall for the likes of Michael Moore or Ann Coulter or Bill O’Reilly or Noam Chomsky - who think […]

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My friend Cathy Seipp wrote in this weekend’s Los Angeles Times about her daughter Maia’s adventures in collegiate acceptance, in a piece entitled UC San Diego - or Prostitute College. Maia’s one of the few people I know who would make a good academic (she’s majoring in Russian Studies at university), so I think she’s […]

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Antoine reports on the global agency’s shameless stumping against individual choice in Mexico:
UNICEF is blatantly pushing a socialist agenda in Mexico, the only plausible aim being to swing voters into backing the more socialist candidates. Who pays for this?

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