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02 March, 2007
The wisdom of crowds…
... may just be prone to corruption. (Via email from Kartik.)
Posted by
Amit Varma in
Science and technology at 5:10 PM
My Friend Sancho Is Looking For Clothes
A reminder to my readers: the contest to design the cover for my first novel, My Friend, Sancho, is…Cleaning Up The Internet
All hail the WTF headline of the day: China to ‘clean up’ the internet It seems the Chinese authorities…
New York Cricket Club
Netherland is an Indian novel accidentally written by an Irishman
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The Desperate Passion of Ben Foster
Method acting meets controlled staginess in 3:10 to Yuma
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?
