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Freespeling

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United States
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Richard Lawrence Wade's campaigning website which has as it mission: 'to encourage flexibility within English speling similar to the language’s versatility of expression and innovation of vocabulary so that, year by year, a new consensus on preferd spelings wil emerge to enable greater ease of written communication and wider literacy.' www.freespeling.com   Read more

The Alties

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Alternet

American site offering an alternative view of the news, supported by the not-for-profit Independent Media Institute. The database contains more than 7,000 articles on all aspects of current affairs and recent events. Also runs the Alties alternative movie awards. www.alternet.org

's awards for the best alternative movies of the year, chosen through an online poll. See our page or go to www.alternet.org/alties/winners.html

Darwin Awards

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If you are not already aware of the Darwin Awards

If you are not already aware of the Darwin Awards, check out Wendy Northcutt's inspirational contribution to evolutionary theory. If you put this stuff in your books, nobody would believe you!

http://www.darwinawards.com

, check out Wendy Northcutt's inspirational contribution to evolutionary theory. If you put this stuff in your books, nobody would believe you!

http://www.darwinawards.com

Disinformation

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Disinformation website
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Alternative American news and underground culture site with a liberal perspective, which describes itself as 'the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs. politics, new science' and "hidden information". www.disinfo.com

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'Anybody who claims that one genre is categorically superior to all others must be ready and able to defend their prejudice. And that involves knowing what the ‘inferior' genres actually consist of, their nature and their forms of excellence. It involves reading them.'

— Ursula K. Le Guin

'A projection back of modern sensibilities'

9 September 2024

‘It's difficult, perhaps impossible, to write a character well in the past who is not a projection back of modern sensibilities. My defence would be that the 16th century was the time when rational, sceptical inquiry was beginning. This was the age of the humanists: we're leaving medieval thought patterns behind.  Read more

26 August 2024 - What's new

August 2024
  • ‘You can offend somebody in the 21st century with something you said in 1970... By the end of the process I was questioning myself, that was the problem. I wrote innocently and I wrote to make people laugh but when I read the book through I thought, gosh, really, is this offensive? And that? And that? Am I all these things?
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