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Neil Turner's Blog
Neil Turner's BlogAug 3, 2026
Our 2026 holiday: Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Although we arrived in Wales on the Saturday, we had a slow day on the Sunday with just a little stroll around Conwy (which I wrote about last year). The first big thing we did was head to Zip World in Llechwedd, home to the Llechwedd Slate Caverns. A brief history of the Llechwedd Slate...
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Anil Dash
Anil DashMay 28, 2009
Say My Name Say My Name
For about ten years, Slate has had an intermittent series of articles that explain how to pronounce names of people who are in the news. As someone whose (first) name is frequently mispronounced, I can appreciate the effort. (For the record: I pronounce it like the word “anneal”, used in…
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Anil Dash
Anil DashAug 16, 2006
Talladega Nights, in review
Slate takes a spoiler-filled look at Will Ferrell’s Talladega Nights. We enjoyed the movie, and it’s consistently funny, but the thing that really struck me as unusual about the movie was its assumption of intelligence on the part of the audience. Many parts of the setup were fast-forwarded…
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Anil Dash
Anil DashFeb 16, 2002
Kinsley on blogs
“The blogs are just a wonderful thing about the Web–you know, individual people just starting up their own Web sites,” former editor of Slate, Michael Kinsley. I’ve loved Slate since it launched, though I seldom read it anymore. Does anyone have a link to the Slate article where they discussed…
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Anil Dash
Anil DashJul 29, 2001
I mentioned this on my
I mentioned this on my list of Peeves 2 years ago, but Slate‘s got a great list of reasons why we should get rid of August. Indeed, if it didn’t include my sister’s birthday, I’d be all in favor of skipping it entirely.
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