This post from Tom Watson scared me not inconsiderably! A creationist lobby group sending DVDs to MPs, purporting to offer evidence why creationism should make it into the GCSE biology syllabus. Made me wonder after reading Mr Tony’s recent New Scientist Interview: NS: One subject that is of great concern to scientists is creationism. There …
A very apt book to kick off the tigmoo bookclub, this is at once a very illuminating peek into the world of working for a dotcom, and a hilarious satire. Stand-up comedian and story-teller Mike Daisey spent three years (21 dog years) working at Amazon in the US during the early days, and wrote up …
Or, more precisely, I’m about to have a diet forced upon me now that Goddards’ Pie House in Greenwich town centre has closed its doors and sold its final portion of stewed eels. No more of my customary weekend lunches of Banks ale and soya pie, with mash, peas and parsely liquor, followed by an …
Commiserations to Cllr Kerron Cross (and especially his cat), who seems to have had a pretty miserable firework season. I’ll declare up front that I do like fireworks very much, so am rather partisan, but I’m not sure though that a ban is the best way to deal with growing firework bother. I often have …
Well, it looks like a reasonable result over the pond, but thought I’d share something from yesterday which caught my eye. This, via the AFLCIO’s blog, is a very scary account culled from US blogs about last minute Republican dirty tricks. Some absolute (evil-) genius stuff here – Why not set up one of those …
And on the subject of webcameron… Have you seen their new web-widget, which is finally live? It’s neat-o in a not tremendously useful way to the user, though it probably does wonders for webdave’s googlejuice, having all those keyword terms linking in from around the web. I thought I’d put it here, but mainly because …
Just back from Gdansk, where I was visiting the trade union Solidarnosc. Never been to Poland before, and Gdansk was a very nice place, but I’m knackered, so in lieu of any genuine cultural commentary, here are three things I found half-way funny: The plane we flew in on (once SAS had lost my baggage …
Very happy to see Thabitha Khumalo in the Torygraph this week, pictured looking very well. After the crackdown in Zimbabwe, she was almost insanely brave to fly back home from TUC Congress in Brighton, as the country’s most senior trades unionist outside jail, to help organise bail and medical help for her colleagues. She knew …
I’m not (too) ashamed to admit that I’m something of a geek, so there’s pretty much nothing I enjoy more than a good political/webby in-joke. As such, I *love* the nerdtastic “Hate my Tory” – an excellent Hot or Not spoof. Rather disappointingly, there’s not an awful lot of Tory hating going on, and the …
I’ve been lurking in a lot more corners of the blogosphere of late, thanks to the almost-wonderful OnSpeed Mobile. As a result, any dead time – mainly on the train in my case – has become blog time, and I can easily check out the Bloggers4Labour what’s new page, and thence on to hundreds of …