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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

Daring Fireball: Colophon

John Gruber tells it like it is about standards compliance: If Daring Fireball looks like shit in your browser, you’re using a shitty browser that doesn’t support web standards. Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 5, I’m looking in your direction. If you complain about this, I will

Left Behind

A magificent, detailed and comprehensive stripping of the ghastly Left Behind books – every Friday at slacktivist. via MeFi

Political correctness gone mad

Good line from a Christopher Brookmyre book Jane is reading: “And there it was, the line he’d known would be along soon enough: ‘Political correctness gone mad.’ [He] had referred to it in a column recently as ‘ the distress cry of the thwarted bigot.’ Any time he heard it,

Classical music as pesticide

Sussex Police are going to use Beethoven and Vivaldi to scare off teenagers hanging around a bandstand in Worthing. Sad, isn’t it?

Collected Essays, by George Orwell (part48)

Orwell on Tolstoy’s hostility to Shakespeare: “[As a puritan, Tolstoy] could have no patience with a chaotic, detailed, discursive writer like Shakespeare. His reaction is that of an irritable old man who is being pestered by a noisy child. “Why do you keep jumping up and down like that?

The future Justice Roberts vs. Michael Jackson

The Washington Post reports on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’s rebuffal of Michael Jackson’s advances in the ’80s.

Paris food places

Not from this trip, but from Frommer’s Budget Travel.

The process of American law-making

Described, acidly, by MeFi

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Animated, gruesomely, in Flash at Newgrounds.

An evening in Paris

A wonderful evening with Jane in Paris this evening, while Liz sat the kids back at the hotel. Since 2003, every August, Paris has set up a beach environment on the right bank of the Seine, called Paris Plage. It’s a wonderful idea, particularly for this city, which half