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Random discovery of the day: There are some people who prefer Christopher Hitchens to Richard Dawkins.

There's no accounting for taste, I suppose.

Conditional offer from York just come in and replies from Bath and Exeter. All that's left is Durham which'll probably be a resolute 'no, thank you dear'. Successfully completed a weekends worth of work and now all that's left is sending my feedback forms. Funsies!

Ah yes, now I remember. About 'The Golden Compass'.

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What annoys me is the fact that the film really didn't have to be made at all. There was no compulsion from some (inter)national society to get the producers to back the director in question. We, as the viewing public, could have gone on in life quite well without there being a cinematic adaption of yet another children's fantasy novel.

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