Get your comments in quick folks… It may be another hundred fuckin years before we appear again!
I hope a profuse and detailed apology from Cat’s will be forthcoming for this fiasco, but frankly I’m a bit pissed off myself. We cannot carry on like this. The friggin Difference engine has to go. I will contribute [...]
Posts under ‘Sigh’
Welcome to Brigadoon…
Why the Planned Society Doesn’t Work
The Planners are idiots.
The use of OxyContin has dropped precipitously, but none of us anticipated that people who were addicted to oxycodone would leave it and select another drug to take its place
None of us, or none of you, the omniscient supermen who would regulate us all?
People are going from an essentially safe medication with [...]
Alan Turing
Today would be Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. Alas it never transpired. He died in still debatable circumstances when he was in his prime. Was he a great pure mathematician? Yes, I’d put him almost as high as Gödel and that is like comparing a footballer to Pele. Both of course were not normal men. Turing [...]
Bahrain
Update: Joe Saward has published his summary of the weekend, including an account of a meeting with some of his Bahraini readers. It’s a long post, and too good to rip quotes out of, but gives a side of things that just wasn’t shown by the mainstream media. It’s well worth reading it all.
Well, it [...]
“Darwin Award” Is Barely Adequate
Down below, Paul has written a post about the “fall of the Moron civilisation”, and a very good post it is too. It describes how a certain South American civilisation, facing the invasion of the Conquistadores, responded by, er, killing their own people and setting fire to their pyramids, which turned out not to be [...]
Save us from the big bad Google we keep voluntarily using, European Union, save us!
This was started as a comment to this Commentator article, which didn’t seem to get through for some reason. Possibly because of one of the domains I’ve blocked, which would be ironic.)
Do you own a smartphone, tablet or computer? If yes then the chances are that you have downloaded free apps or use free [...]
Telegraph Comments and Cultural Defeatism.
I wrote this a while back and left it for some reason. But reading this has made me dust it down…
This story in the Telegraph isn’t very interesting (way to blog Nick!) but the comments are astonishing. They read like something from the Third Reich.
vonmises (yeah right!)
Chips in with this…
Fascinating report. It gives [...]
Miss World
The most enduring image of the last Miss World pageant held in London 40 years ago is of angry feminists storming the venue and pelting the celebrity guests with eggs and rotten tomatoes.
Forty years on, the protest was more muted as Venezuela’s Ivian Sarcos, a 21-year-old human resource graduate and wannabe social activist, was crowned [...]
Classic cars are history?
This morning I saw a very old (black and white number plates) VW minibus parked down the road. A real hippy transportation device (it would have been quite old already parked outside some stoner’s gaff in Berkeley in ‘68). Of course then it would have been adorned with flowers and bad psychedelia and the CND [...]
Britain* 2011, a few snapshots
… from the Telegraph’s live blog:
16.37 The government’s epetitions website has crashed under the weight of people rushing to sign up to a petition calling for looters to “loose” their benefits.
Educashun, eddycation, edumacation, eh, Tony? At least all that government borrowing hasn’t been in vain.
Also, Britain’s leading “right-wing” paper [...]
Chasing the Rabbit and Scrabble by Candlelight…
Yesterday afternoon a collection of rude mechanicals were digging a hole at the end of my street. Shortly thereafter the lights went out all down the street. So that’s my computing up the junction for the evening! The power only came back up this morning. Shortly after the sun did. So what do you do?
Well, [...]
I am utterly sick to the back-teeth now…
We are currently at war in Afghanistan and Libya is spiralling out of control. The entire civilized world is in the financial naughty corner, we have a prime minister who thinks he can make it all go away by taking his wife on holiday via Ryanair and what do our biggest selling tabloids run with…
The [...]
Idiots Of The Week: The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers
“Pubs to display alcohol units in public health ‘responsibility deal’” shouts, or at least mumbles, The Telegraph
The article is a list of Healthist claptrap, which the foolish industries have “voluntarily” agreed to; displays of alcohol “units”, warning labels, reductions in the palatability of food, demands we’re all familiar with now. But the doozy in the [...]
Jacqui Smith to make porn show for BBC
Last night she said: ‘As I know from my personal experience, porn fascinates us – media and public alike. But we actually know very little about what it’s like to work in the industry and what porn is doing to our society, our children and our relationships.
‘In making this programme, I’ve been able to [...]
Fatahgate
The leaks from Al-Jazeera about the extent to which Fatah would compromise came as no surprise to me (I mean that’s what you do in negotiations, right?). The simple truth is that there is not and never really has been a Palestinian state-in-waiting. There have been two with leaderships - Fatah and Hamas - who [...]
