I would never have dreamed that huge numbers of people would propagate an obvious malapropism. But search Twitter, or use any regular search engine like Google, for “hate hippocrates”, and step back in amazement.
Category Archive: Life
Why don’t computer magazines have ads like “Chew KipperGum, its Omega 3 fatty acids will fuel your Photoshop work beyond Steve Caplin’s”, or “Evening Primrose Tea puts the fourth dimension into Lightwave”?
If you too find Tracey Emin’s bed tawdry, then you should enjoy Miriam and Ezra Elia’s delightful parody of a classic Ladybird learn-to-read book, We Go to the Gallery.
Even the least money-motivated of us become tempted to play to the gallery, and their view statistics.
You know those creepy adverts which keep appearing on websites, offering you products which you have either just […]
Tackling great problems was best summarised by the late Fritz Schumacher: “Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”
You would be forgiven for thinking that tomorrow was the first of March, not June. If you dare mention ‘global warming’ round here I think the local hoteliers would lynch you.
This the one book on American English that every English speaker – American, British, Australian, or wherever – should read.
It took 22 years to turn the telegraph into a useful commercial system, 16 years to do the same with the telephone, only 8 years for the transistor, and 6 years for the mobile phone. How long before computers transform homeworking and healthcare?
We are only too painfully aware of the continuing drive to increase powers of surveillance in the name of the ‘war on terror’. Just don’t let the electorate know that precious little surveillance has anything to do with that.
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