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Couple More Links

• Etymology of Grimpen - you have to scroll down to Sherlock Holmes adds a Word. I thought this was interesting - I only realised the other day when I was watching the drama about Arthur Conan Doyle on BBC2 that he coined the term in The Hound of the Baskervilles. I'd thought it was a proper word because I thought I remembered reading it in a translation of Dante. Turns out I was half-right - I was mis-remembering reading TS Eliot's East Coker but he lifted the word from the Holmes story. Very interesting.
• Kevin Drum - typical, go visit progressive US websites for political news, come back with a big thread on the ending of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Lots of interesting stuff here, but major spoilers if you haven't read the book.
• Bloody Pledgebank again - looks like the Opentech conference (couldn't make it unfortunately) saw the start of something like a British equivalent of the EFF - a kind of clearinghouse for UK digital rights issues. Click the link if you want to give these people money to get going.

Posted by MFreestone at July 31, 2005 09:05 PM