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March 20, 2009 by graham
XKCD gets it right again
This blog has turned into an other-people’s-stuff reposting service. When I get home from Vilnius I’ll do something about that. For now, though, enjoy XKCD’s latest (click for embiggenment).Archive
March 5, 2009 by graham
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 [...]Archive
February 21, 2009 by graham
Even the coppers hate the no-photographing coppers law
From BoingBoing: Peter Smyth, Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation … thinks the law is ridiculous — and this is just stupendous. Smyth says that there’s no evidence that terrorists use photographs to plan attacks, admits that this is an invitation for scared officers to abuse the law, and says that it will needlessly create [...]Archive
February 17, 2009 by graham
Photographers’ protest against Counter Terrorism Act
Here’s a video (via 1854.eu of the protest held on Monday, Feb 16th by photographers, professional and amateur alike, against the Counter Terrorism Act, part of which makes it illegal to elicit information about a police officer or member of the armed forces. Our fear is that with this law Police will be able to [...]Archive
January 16, 2009 by graham
Not even wrong
There’s a story in the Grauniad to day about the prevalence of Young Earth Creationism amongst undergraduates (link, via Stephen Law). Such views are less unusual among UK students than you might think. In a survey last month, more than 12% questioned preferred creationism – the idea God created us within the past 10,000 years [...]Archive
November 17, 2008 by graham
A quick note
Back from Lexington; tired, grumpy, ready to eat brains (though I might have to have diet brains because, as always seems to be when I go away for work – and especially to Americky – I’ve put weight on again). More on that another time, perhaps. But I just wanted to say that the Bishop [...]Archive
November 4, 2008 by graham
The stupid, it burns
This just in: TV shows that include sex may increase the risk of teenage pregnacies [link]. Teenage girls who watch a lot of TV shows with a high sexual content are twice as likely to become pregnant, according to a study. Boys watching similar programmes, like Friends and Sex and the City, were also more [...]Archive
September 17, 2008 by graham
And Another Thing…
So, this news story intrigued me (from the BBC): Children’s author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series. Now, my first reaction was: WTF? My second reaction was… Why? I honestly don’t get why another H2G2 book needs to be written. I know that [...]Archive
August 17, 2008 by graham