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Anthony Zacharzewski

Anthony Zacharzewski

Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding. President of Demsoc.org but posts here are personal.

📍 Brussels

We are all doomed

The US Senate debates the rises in petrol prices there, and the “I think what the American consumer is saying is that filling up your gas tank shouldn’t empty your wallet” I don’t doubt that that’s what the American consumer is saying to Sen. John Thune of

Demokratische-Junge Quex

There’s an extraordinary book being advertised through a sponsored link at This Modern World just now. It’s a book called Why Mommy is a Democrat and the few sample pages available on the web site are unbearable – the sort of badly-crafted saccharine propaganda that would raise (rightly) shrieks

Thus - the company with no clue

Just to mention the pain I’m going through trying to cancel my old Demon broadband service. Outsourced call centres, clueless stubborn staff, pointless bureaucracy AND a complaints email address that bounces back with ‘user unknown’. I’m betting their customer complaints are WAY down this quarter.

A profile of MySpace

A profile of MySpace in the NYT.

Pubs: Wenlock Arms, London N1

Off last night to the Wenlock Arms, an excellent beer pub in a fairly undistinguished side-street in North London. Winner of best real ale pub in North London for several years (though pipped at the post this year), it’s a proper local. Well worth a visit if you’re

Social signal failure

A strange mix of social signals on my train today. A rather well- dressed young woman sat down opposite me, plonked a copy of Crime and Punishment on the table, and then started devouring Best magazine, featuring a lose 5 lb in 5 days superdiet, and more Jordan baby news

The failure of Wikipedia

Transcript of a speech by Jason Scott.

Why blogs don't help democracy

Because they reward people who rush to the extreme and ignore compromise, like Maryscott O’Connor.

No net for Hemel

According to the Register the town of my birth has run out of broadband connectivity. Whether this is due to rampant net use among the denizens of Hertfordshire’s premier alliterative new town, or just BT being a bit crap, we don’t yet know.

Citicorp building, NYC

The excellent Damn Interesting tells the story of the Citicorp building on Lexington Avenue, an imposing New York skyscraper, which due to a minor change of plan during construction, was almost blown down by the wind.