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Comment on Remembering Terence McKenna by Peter D

Peter D — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:06:26 +0000

I wonder where Terrence would have stood on the topic of 9/11 truth?

Comment on Wade Davis on endangered cultures by toby chown

toby chown — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:33:38 +0000

wow he knows how to speak

Comment on Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness lecture videos by Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:33:40 +0000

THANK-YOU Gyrus… I missed Mike Jay and Charlotte Walsh but did catch Ben Sessa. I shall look forward to those later and might even be able to pick up the name of the researcher who was looking for volunteers that Ben mentioned.

Gennaro from lifeartsmedia recorded the lectures from the CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BIOSPHERE symposium event earlier this year which was chaired by Dr Luke and also held at The October Gallery…
http://www.lifeartsmedia.com/consciousness-and-the-biosphere-q-and-a

Comment on Capital crimes by Gyrus

Gyrus — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:17:54 +0000

Hi Garrett, the “argument” here is admittedly trivial in the scheme of things, but the issues are pretty clearly laid out. What was it you didn’t get?

Comment on Capital crimes by Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:24:19 +0000

Just read your old article about Doc Hyatt’s undoing book. The I read the current article, under which I’m posting this comment. Funny argument, but what’s the point? Not that there needs to be one, but I’m curious if you intended one. ;)

In any case, lots more undoing happenings, and we’ve stripped away most of the belief tunnels you mention…

Have fun!

Comment on Capital crimes by Joel

Joel — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:35:51 +0000

I might add that those words in British English that have to be -ise and can’t be -ize are also -ise in American English, such as ‘advertise’ and ‘compromise’. You’ll have to remember which ones they are, like Americans, whereas if you routinely, as a British person, used the -ise ending you wouldn’t have to remember anything.

Comment on Capital crimes by Joel

Joel — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:30:19 +0000

I think I mentioned before that apart from the single exception of ‘capsize’ the ending -ise is never wrong in British English, whereas -ize sometimes is. What better way of not being wrong without thinking?

Comment on Capital crimes by Gyrus

Gyrus — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:51:40 +0000

when you start arbitrarily capping up

I think we're agreeing that the "rules" are partly arbitrary anyway, so it's tough to internalize "rules".

These days style is to lowercase as much as you can get away with

Seems to be. I wonder who'll get "london" and "joel biroco" going?

You’re still flapping about in the wind, I’ll wager.

Thinking it through - though that phrase is deceptive, as it's hard to properly think things through without actually doing stuff. As for the "z", it's my style that I'm pretty accustomed to. I'll not bother with the electro-shock unless you can convince me that "ise" is a rule, not style. Why faff around? The good ol' Wiki says: "the ratio between -ise and -ize stands at 3:2 in the British National Corpus". Gaining on ya! ;-)

Comment on Capital crimes by Joel

Joel — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:21:29 +0000

Actually, the ‘z’ isn’t a variant as far as Americans are concerned I guess, and you have your spellchecker set to American. Can you not change it to English?

Comment on Capital crimes by Joel

Joel — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:11:30 +0000

When writing books there is a lot to be said for picking one guide and using it as the authority. The Chicago manual displays a lot of intelligence in this regard on all sorts of matters. I also use Chambers dictionary for my decisions on whether a word takes a hyphen or not. And I use Bringhurst on matters of typography. I used to use Hart’s rules too, but that got lost some time ago. Why faff around trying to decide?

I notice I have slipped into writing ‘capitalized’ here instead of my preferred ‘capitalised’. This is a web thing, auto comment spellchecks favour ‘z’ variants (as well as American spelling, even on your blog, but I’m buggered if I’m going to write ‘favor’) and those red wavy lines are very insistent. I’m going to have to use electro-shock therapy to enforce my old consistency.