SOPA
SOPA, originally uploaded by framboise. The other, not so tasty type of SOPA. A 3 point primer. And in more detail.
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BBC+Guardian=Danger?
Is this for real? Do people really think the BBC is a sinister left-wing organisation? (via) Goes without saying: After all, without the BBC, there’d be no Doctor Who.
Pesky pre-primary pussyfooting
Any semi-regular reader (that’s you, you and you over there who reads the food posts) can guess on which arm of the political spectrum I lie. (Or quadrant, if left and right are too simple for you.) So you must have been rather pleased that I haven’t been inundating these pages1 with posts about the […]
Here’s another thing to complain about, S’poreans
Singapore: a clean, tropical island state that has strongly discouraged1 public performances of the fairly innocuous Complaints Choir (the original Birmingham version, in the home country of the bright sparks who thought it up-Helsinki and elsewhere in the world). (via the ever on-the-ball Elia Diodati) Copied and pasted from the choir’s website, an explanation of […]
Nail SOCPA before it nails you
Just a quickie while I grapple with iMovie to make yet another dire home video and struggle with the RAW files off the beast. In the run-up to the public consultation on the authoritarian SOCPA laws, various liberal-leaning folk like Curious Hamster and Tim Ireland have been discussing looseness of such laws and the potential […]
Trumptown
The Trumptown saga continues. What bothers me the most about the whole affair is the speed with which the Scottish government involved itself. The “call in” happened just a bit too fast to be due process. Surely some pressure was placed on them. Having been in the US for a couple of years now, I […]
In the Ca(f)Ca – Wendy A.
Holyrood’s Donorgate has been superseded by the Trumptown affair . But that shouldn’t stop us from enjoying this montage tri(al)bute to Labour’s buck-stopper at Holyrood. (via Tartan Hero)
Just wait till I get out my inkjet
What they said. As a researcher, albeit of a different speciality, if I put out crap that hung on a tenuous piece of evidence, I’d be jobless. Granted, I have a modicum of control over my experimental settings. But if the result is not what I predicted or does not fit my hypothesis, I don’t […]
Le Roi s’Ennuié. Vive le Roi.
The reigning monarch has abdicated. Long live the new monarch.
Lib Dem spat/row/silliness
As much as I dislike slander in modern-day politics, sometimes I think reactions to name-calling can get even worse than the original infraction. Take the case of the recent nastiness involving Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne. It was not nice of the Huhne camp to coin the “Calamity” nickname. Perhaps more than not nice; irresponsible, […]
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