February 2004

"Consumer advocacy groups around the world are calling technology companies to account for their lemons, limits and lapses."

"Fifty thousand copies of two books released in January - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Laughable Loves - sold out in one month."

"It was very fresh and had obviously only just died. You could see the marks made by the seagull's beak on its back"

Q: If you had to give the Bush administration one piece of advice about how to improve relations with Mexico, what would it be?

"alas, for all the colour and comic-strip fun of modern Latin textbooks, there is no way to the literature that does not go via the horrible wild places where ablatives and gerunds live"

"All Arabs have a spoken colloquial that varies considerably between one region or country and another. The written language is quite different"

the Pentagon should fund this instead of propaganda radio broadcasts, but Jefferson is probably too subversive for them

"The editorial board has resigned en masse, to protest what they call price-gouging by Elsevier" - to publish a new ACM journal

"the United States rejected virtually all German requests for cooperation in the prosecution of Mzoudi"

so "unspecified" it is: if the text on this page is too big or too small or not in your preferred font, you should change your browser defaults

but there will never be a war crimes prosecution for this, even with the machine-gunning of wounded survivors

"The majority based the decision on the equal protection and due process provisions of the Massachusetts constitution"

Google CEO: "Based on [Microsoft's] visceral reactions to any discussions about 'open source', they are obsessed with open source as a business model."

in Australia, new opposition leader Mark Latham has fired up the debates and will have a real chance of booting John Howard

"We will not compromise on the most basic rights of the nation, that is, the right to freely choose and be chosen"