District Line
Archive for September, 2004
On the tube
Living in London, I spend a hefty percentage of my time on the underground. Generally I hate it, but I also realise it’s one of those things that I will really miss about London when the time comes to leave.
The next train is for High Barnet. Barnet is British slang for ‘Hair’.
Terrorism old and new
I’ve always liked the Guy Fawkes mural at Charing Cross tube station. You can see in the photo where the litter bin used to be (there are no litter bins on the London Underground, they were removed when the IRA was at war with the UK – rubbish bins were used to deposit bombs). The consequence of a recent war has become part of the mural of an even older one.
The District Line
The Chomster on Nation States
“…the nation-state system has been one of the must brutal and destructive creations of Europe and its offshoots, imposed by force on much of the rest of the world, with horrendous consequences for centuries in Europe, and elsewhere until the present.” See the full ting ‘ere.
This is from a debate in which the great man has honoured Noah Cohen by taking it “seriously enough” to respond.
Firefox: wired. IE: expired
Damn straight. The new Mozilla site is cool . Or, as they say, “Firefox: wired. IE: expired”. Yeah baby.
