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21 Jan 2018, 4:51 pm by INFORRM
The Data Protection Bill [pdf] has now passed all its stages in the House of Lords and has now gone to the House of Commons.. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 6:46 am
Teenagers, they're supposed to be trouble.This makes me want to quote a passage from one of my favorite books "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir" by Bill Bryson. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 4:33 am
Remarkably, before this, the only way to know if someone was trying to get through to you was to pick up the phone from time to time and see if anyone was there.That's from Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life. [read post]
19 Feb 2017, 5:11 am
And the Bill Bryson book came out in 1996 (and is about traveling through England).If you go to the link and keep scrolling, you'll have to go to #21 to find another Trump book (and it's a trifle, "The Trump Coloring Book," from December 2015, probably intended as a joke gift, with Trump in a Superman costume on the cover). [read post]
2 Jan 2017, 1:13 pm
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (2013) [cd unabridged] 46. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 11:15 am
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (2013) [cd unabridged] 46. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 3:10 am by Walter Olson
” [Ike Brannon, Cato] “Once, protesters threatened to burn Bryson and his family in their home. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 6:30 am
Said an American who teaches in Japan, where the elementary schools provide unicycles for the kids to ride at recess.ADDED: This story made me remember this passage from Bill Bryson's "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir" — about being an American kid the 1950s:In such a world, injuries and other physical setbacks were actually welcomed. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 3:14 pm by Daniel Shaviro
 The Tenured Professor, Eleanor Perenyi's 1946 memoir More Was Lost, Ian McEwan's 1998 novel Amsterdam, most of Bill Bryson's 1996 comic travelogue Notes From a Small Island, and part of an old favorite, E.F. [read post]
19 Mar 2016, 1:08 am by Dennis Crouch
 The Bill would basically limit the venues where patent infringement claims can be brought. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 8:54 am
Says one commenter at Audible about Bill Bryson's new book "The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain," which — as I've already complained about — is not read by Bill Bryson.Most of the other commenters have the same problem:Click for more » [read post]
31 Jan 2016, 10:56 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Bill Bryson called the Inner Alster “one of the most arresting sights I have ever seen. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 5:01 am by Kit Case
"Lyft drivers are entirely in control of where or when they work, and this flexibility is exactly why the service is so popular with with people looking to make extra income," said Sheila Bryson, a spokeswoman for San Francisco-based Lyft. [read post]
16 Jan 2016, 8:17 am
Says Bill Bryson — who has a new book "The Road to Little Dribbling/Adventures of an American in Britain" — in an interview in the NYT.I'm an immense Bill Bryson fan, primarily because I love his audiobook voice. [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 2:41 pm by Jonathan Bailey
Three of the others have been resolved in Google’s favor and two others are still pending. 3: Bill Bryson Publishers Allowed to Keep Jolly Fisherman Cover Image Finally today, the BBC is reporting that that the Skegness Town Council has reached a deal with with the publisher Transworld to allow it to continue using a likeness of Skegness’ Jolly Fisherman statute on the cover of a book by author Bill Bryson. [read post]
6 Sep 2015, 10:06 am
I was annoyed by all the forced buddy-pic humor that replaced the relationship that Bill Bryson described in the book. [read post]
29 Aug 2015, 7:51 am
"Bryson's is my go-to voice for audiobooks to fall asleep to. [read post]