Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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The Blog Digest 2007 comes out on Friday 1 December. It includes contributions from many of the better class of people, namely those with links on my sidebar, as well as several others whose acquaintance it was a pleasure to make. The editor, Justin McKeating, has done a remarkably fine job in assembling a highly diverse collection of quality writing, which according to the index covers everything from abortion to Zinedine Zidane, taking in bears, corpse robbers, Danish cartoons, elderly care, foot fetishists, golf, Hegel, irreducible complexity, Elton John, the Khmer Rouge, the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, memes, Newsnight, Mark Oaten, Jon Pertwee, a brace of Rooneys, speed-dating, toilets (inevitably), the United Nations, vaginas (Noreen's, inevitably) and wasps along the way. It is superbly designed, with illustrations by one Matt Buck (including one of John Prescott having an intimate moment with a pork pie, which is perhaps less forgettable than might be hoped); and it includes a couple of contributions by the present writer, marking the first time my work has appeared between the covers of a book.
