Propping up the straw men, exploding Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr, former BBC politics editor, amongst other things, has written a piece for the BBC about "The danger of worshipping Darwin". Now, as if that wasn’t enough to raise red flags in the heads of all those who accept evolution through natural selection as being the current best explanation for how life as it [...]
More Murphy O’Connor
So, it turns out that the story that I blogged about the other day has even more to it than I thought. Rather than try and summarise the matter here – for I don’t fully understand it at the moment; it’s late, I’m tired and I’m busy watching the fantastic An Inconvenient Truth. Instead, I’ll [...]
Shuttleworth: “Ubuntu ‘reaping Linux dividend’
There's a nice story on the BBC news site: The public perception of open source software is changing fast, said Mark Shuttleworth, who leads distribution of the Ubuntu operating system (OS). "There has been a sea change in the way people think of Linux, which is very healthy," he said. "We have seen a real [...]
More photography gubbins
Oh, and whilst we're on the subject the photography stuff I posted about earlier, there's a petition on the Downing Street website that UK citizens and ex pats can sign: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to clarify the laws surrounding photography in public places. Through history, we have documented the world around us, [...]
To be filed under WTF, part the second
So, as a follow-up to yesterday's post, this just in from the BBC (link): Crowds of people have marched in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to call for UK teacher Gillian Gibbons to be shot. … According to some agencies, some of the protesters chanted: "Shame, shame on the UK", "No tolerance – execution" and "Kill [...]
To be filed under WTF
From BBC news (link): A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison and will then be deported. Which is bad enough. I mean it's a [...]
“Skip to the end, Cap’n”
From BBC News (Link): Hot Fuzz star Simon Pegg is poised to play Scotty in the new Star Trek movie. This could be interesting. Or it could simply Not Work. I'm not sure.
Do unto others, etc.
From BBC News: Feuding nuns force convent demise: A convent in Italy is being shut down after a fight between its last three remaining nuns. So badly did relations deteriorate between the sisters of Santa Clara in Bari that the Mother Superior ended up in hospital with scratches to her face. The best bit is [...]
Like a star
BBC News: Carvings riddle stumps villagers: The sculptures feature the same carved symbol and come with a riddle attached. Each of the heads, which are up to a foot tall, looks different but all feature the same carving – which appears to spell out the word "paradox" – and a note bearing the riddle: "Twinkle [...]
Brilliant!
BBC Picture set: Fantasy coffins. The godless heathen in me wants one shaped like this: But maybe that's just me.
Always, always, always look before you buy
Buyer finds mummy in Spanish flat (BBC) Jordi Giro bought the flat in the Costa Brava resort of Rosas at an auction after the previous owner defaulted on her payments. He told police that he was shocked on going into the flat for the first time to discover her body sitting on the sofa. It [...]
