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Herbert Fortnightly: On Wikocracy
http://herbertfortnightly.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wikocracy.html
Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will. My brother Mark invented the Maglev train. I'd been browsing Wikipedia. Is balanced and fair. In my opinion. But as I was rushing to bring my new idea to the masses, I ran across Wikocracy. Which allows you to choose an existing American law and edit it or create a new one. Of course, this has no effect on legislation, but if it gains weight perha...
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Herbert Fortnightly: On Oliver Sacks
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Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. I’m terrible with faces. You hear that a lot, and it sounds like an excuse: someone has forgotten you because they were uninterested last time they met you. But I honestly am. I can’t, at this moment,. Before I realised that the two main characters were actually played by different people - I’d mistaken Leonardo di Caprio for Matt Damon (still thought it was great, though).
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Herbert Fortnightly: On Religion
http://herbertfortnightly.blogspot.com/2007/01/on-religion.html
Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. Who the hell made wasting sperm a sin? I've hinted before that Richard Dawkins. So if you were going to found a religion and you wanted to give it the best chance of influencing people's behaviour for the good, how would you go about it? I've compiled a modest list of commandments, in case anybody feels like worshipping me:. 4 There's no holy land. People's right to live somewhere derives from a complicated mix of history, culture, language, local ...
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Herbert Fortnightly: On Language
http://herbertfortnightly.blogspot.com/2007/03/on-language.html
Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. Those things, that all languages have in common, or that are necessary to every language, are treated of in a science, which some have called. James Beattie, 1788. Who was taught about a hundred words of sign language - but he didn't have the infinitely creative ability that we have, because he had no notion of syntax. He could use words on their own and even sometim. The chimp's namesake) suggested that this could be because we're born already knowing...
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Herbert Fortnightly: On Facts
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Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. My brother and I collect little-known facts. Some of the below we discovered ourselves, others we lifted from comedy shows and similar serious investigative organisations, others were suggested by our friends. You're all invited to contribute more in the comments page. If one of them's yours and you object to it being here, or if you think any of them may be untrue, let me know. There’s a town called Rickmansworth in every continent. Whales were invent...
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Herbert Fortnightly: On Ron Mueck
http://herbertfortnightly.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-ron-mueck.html
Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. It’s never been this close before. Galleries and museums come with a dilemma attached: do you go alone so that you can linger on some things and skip past others as you like, or do you take someone with you in case you want to talk about the exhibits? Overall, I’m glad I went to see a recent Ron Mueck. Exhibition alone, because that way it was easier to appreciate his solitary subjects. They have that Madame Tussauds. My favourite sculpture was Ghost, ...
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Herbert Fortnightly: On the Way Out
http://herbertfortnightly.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-way-out.html
Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. On the Way Out. Don't think I'm leaving you here without a kiss goodbye. After six months, I've decided to bring this blog to an end. At the beginning I was bursting with things to say, but now one idea per fortnight seems an awful lot to expect. So I'll stop before it becomes a chore. Thanks for reading. Oh, and before you go, have a look at Answer Me This. But don't feel too bad for Martin the Sound Man - they love him really. But thanks for the link!
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Herbert Fortnightly: On Pan's Labyrinth
http://herbertfortnightly.blogspot.com/2006/12/on-pans-labyrinth_01.html
Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,. Through the graves the wind is blowing,. Freedom soon will come;. Then we'll come from the shadows. I don't know why the English title of this film. It's hard not to compare it with the 1986 film Labyrinth. It's much harder with this film to sum up the relationship between the real world and the magical one. For a start, the focus is on the former, which is unusual. Sometimes, when Ofelia is in the fantasy, s...And w...
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Herbert Fortnightly: On Iraq
http://herbertfortnightly.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-iraq.html
Tune in every other Sunday for your dose of Herbert. Bush announces Iraq exit strategy: 'We'll go through Iran'. On Wednesday, Tony Blair announced the withdrawal of about a quarter of the British troops. Given that the security situation doesn't seem to have changed, it's reasonable to assume that the decision is political. My country is fed up with Iraq, and soon the other three-quarters of the soldiers are going to come home too. Ann Treneman. Anyway, 100 deaths out of 7,000 soldiers over four years i...
