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New banners

You may have noticed that the site now has randomly chosen header images. And a photo credits page (link on the left) so you can find out where they’re from.

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Search engine robots

In the seven days this domain has been in existence, it has been visited by the robots/spiders of search engines 745 times – mainly Google and Inktomi (which I think may be Yahoo). I find that extraordinary. But then Google is pretty damn miraculous anyway. Paul Simon was right – these are the days of miracle and wonder.

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MIT blogosphere survey

Take the MIT Weblog Survey

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‘Linguists boycott Kansas intelligent design hearings’

Something amusing from Language Log.

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two entertaining links

Americans, quite naturally, get annoyed at the Grauniad’s attempt to swing the US election.

Someone rubbishes Catcher in the Rye. God I hate that book.

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a cool game

My best score so far (I haven’t played much yet): 2024