Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Nov 28th, 2007
Gordon Brown is in a hell of a mess says the Torygraph. They would say that wouldn’t they, but it turns out the rest of press thinks so too. Unsurprisingly, The Guardian and The Times and The Independent all have stories about the “donationsgate” scandal that will, it seems, soon be a criminal matter. Talk [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 22nd, 2007
Steve Bell’s cartoon in The Guardian is the best thing I’ve seen yet about the lost discs fiasco, dubbed the Winter of Disc Content by BBC Radio 4’s Today program this morning, namely the government’s losing data about half the adult population and a large number of dependents.
More discs have gone missing. All this comes [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 20th, 2007
The Times and Yahoo News both report that ‘pilgrims’ will recreate a drunken meander by that most Chaucerian of characters, the Bishop of Southwark.
The expression
As the actress said to the bishop
was something I heard from time to time in my wife’s family, usually after utterances such as
It’s not big enough…
and other unintentional double entendres. It’s [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 18th, 2007
There’s a fine article in Wired on how you can have your genome sequenced for $1,000. Clearly, it’ll be $100 before too much longer.
The rate of change of progress in the genomics business is reminiscent of that in electronics and magnetic storage, but so far new knowledge hasn’t resulted in many tangible benefits, which is [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 10th, 2007
I am wondering if I purchased things from the recently convicted lyrical terrorist, a young lady who worked in a newsagents shop in Heathrow airport that I patronized every time I returned to the UK in recent years.
Today we are advised not to demonise Muslims, because Islam is really a religion of peace and because [...]
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