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From the monthly archives: June 2006
The Tour de France starts tomorrow, and with Lance Armstrong out of the running the field was wide open. Ben is a cycle nut and we spent a lot of time in the tent in Greenland talking about this year’s tour and we both agreed that it would be the most exciting in years.
Jan [...]
“A century from now, when historians write about our era, one question will dwarf all others, and it won’t be about finance or politics or even terrorism. The question will be, simply, how could our rich and civilised society allow a known and beatable enemy to kill millions of [...]
I’d always gone along with the idea that Al Gore was pretty much the way the media portrayed him: stiff, bureaucratic and a little inhuman. However, TED have begun putting some of their talks online and Al Gore has just blown me away. And [...]
Last Thursday, Ben mentioned that we had better start getting everything we would need for the weekend ready. The only thing I could think of that was happening on the weekend was the England-Ecuador match and Ben is hardly the kind of football fan to [...]
I tried to post this earlier as an embedded file but wordpress seemed to use this as an excuse to play silly buggers with my site. In the 2001 Tour de France, Lance Armstrong and Jan Ullrich were climbing wheel on wheel up the Alpe D’Huez when Armstrong turned round, looked Ullrich in the eyes [...]
I was a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to philosophy. I think the first book that really got me thinking about the subject (if we don’t count Dawkin’s Selfish Gene, which got me thinking about everything) was A.C. Grayling’s What is Good?, [...]
And yet more from Everest, this newsreader made a teensy weensy error when she introduced blind Everest climber Erik Weihenmayer. (Thanks to Paul Deegan for digging this jewel out.)
Someone singing James Brown’s ‘I feel Good’ in a heavy Turkish accent at 2am. You hardly ever hear that at all. Back in Kentish Town I am slowly adapting to life’s hustle again. Waking up at six this morning, despite my soulful serenade of a few hours previously, I headed out on the bike to [...]
it seems a fair few things have happened. My flatmate’s band, the tuneful Mr Hudson and the Library have begun to hit the big time and have been gigging all over the country. They are supporting Erykah Badu next month, whose album ‘Baduism’ I flogged [...]
This morning, lying in our tent at the top of the Hann Glacier we heard the familiar whup-whup of a helicopter heading our way. Our taxi had arrived. We jumped into action, threw sleeping bags in sledges and dismantled our tent in short order. Helicopter pilots do not like to [...]
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