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March 4, 2009 by graham
Arrested for not photographing a grate… or something
Via BoingBoing: Stephen Clarke was arrested for allegedly photographing a sewer grate in Manchester. Then, when police found no photos of said grate on his phone they re-arrested him on suspicion of "being concerned with the commission of a terrorist act," held him for two days and searched his house and laptop. They subsequently released [...]Archive
February 19, 2009 by graham
National waste-of-time day
From www.thefaithofbritain.com: It is a proven scientific fact that thinking about something often causes it to happen. Some call this quantum physics. Others simply call it "faith." We ask that you open your mind to joining in with a unique psychic force that will change our lives through the power of thought. Playing fast and [...]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
July 29, 2008 by graham
So I’m in there with Satanists now am I?
Well, it doesn’t entirely surprise me that someone lumps us atheists into that category, but still. Birmingham City Council has put in place software that blocks people from looking at atheist websites whilst allowing some other belief systems through (link, via Pharyngula: The authority’s Bluecoat Software computer system allows staff to look at websites relating [...]Archive
June 6, 2008 by graham
Cricketing quackery
From Thaindian News (via Willow and Leather), comes this piece of stupidity: A small fabric bracelet is England cricketers' latest secret weapon that has boosted their performance levels. The Trion-Z 'magic' bands are being tried by the team after cricketers James Anderson and Stuart Broad said they were huge fans of the bracelet. Using incredibly [...]Archive
May 11, 2008 by graham
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 [...]Archive
March 15, 2008 by graham
Whoops
A big sorry to the LiveJournal users who just got spammed by a double-post from the photo feed. The hack that I wrote to pull the Flickr feed into the blog post stream isn't smart enough to cope with the idea that an image might change (though in this case I don't think it could [...]Archive
March 5, 2008 by graham
What could possibly go wrong?
So, the Met have created some new anti-terrorism posters, one of which is this gem (via BoingBoing): Because nothing could possibly go wrong with that in London could it? What with all the tourists and all… The problem here is twofold: The police are trying to make people think cynically about an activity that is [...]Archive
January 23, 2008 by graham