And Also....
- Ross leaves BBC
January 7, 2010 | 12:20 pmWith Jonathan Ross leaving in July, can we have Barry Norman back please?
- Historian David Starkey
October 2, 2009 | 2:51 pmTwo words describe this man – irreverent and irrelevant.
- McD v McC
September 8, 2009 | 11:55 amIt is good that McDonalds lost their case against McCurry; enough of the bully boys! However, McCurry argued their name stood for “Malaysian Chicken Curry”
Yeah, right…
Other Stuff
Are we killing childhood by killing religion?
When we dispose of god, who is left to keep up moral? Have we forgotten what an “adult” is meant to be? Right, hands up here, I am an atheist – yes, I know that can be an unpalatable thing to be, but I have seen enough of the effect of religious struggle to make me... »
Homeopathy versus the MPs
Chairman Phil Willis It is not often that I note that MPs are actually getting to grips with a subject, but today came a report from the cross-party Commons Science and Technology Committee that really puts the boot into Homeopathy. They have been looking at the question of Homeopathy and in particular how it relates... »
Keep Fox Hunting BANNED
Many MPs in the Tory party are planning to overturn the ban on Fox Hunting should they win the next election. David Cameron has promised a free vote, but if he gets a majority, his new MPs will be expected to change the law. This will be a backwards step into barbarism and will basically... »
Nothing New on the web then
WBS - Social Networking in 1996 I was looking over Rory Cellan Jones‘ look back over his blogging year on the BBC. Looking at the sort of subjects he has covered, to be honest, this is no different from any other year since the Internet became popular – just involved more people and different companies.... »
What part of this graph don’t you understand?
This is the most recent graph from the met office If you walk through this world with your ears and eyes open you cannot help but notice the thousands of fools with their heads stuck in the sand over some issue or another. But I have to say in all my life, and I am... »
Will we lose Africa to Technology?
Rwanda - © bbc The techy division of the BBC has been taking a trip into Africa – Kenya and Rwanda, to be precise. The last few days have seen them in Rwanda talking to the ministry responsible for rolling out the Internet to the country, and the hope for Rwanda becoming the most computerised... »
The Big Lie – Homeopathy and Aids
Anyone who knows me knows I like good science; that is science that has a considered, evidential approach to working out what works and what doesn’t. I dislike science that leaps to conclusions too quickly, or that goes against evidence simply for financial gain (yes, scientists can lie too), and I especially dislike pseudo-science,... »
Bad Medicine resorts to Suing people
I have been a bit slow on this story – I must have missed an important missive! It appears that the British Chiropractic Association, promoters of therapies that are often more harm than good, has sued Simon Singh, science writer and director of the BBC Science department, for his criticism of using chiropractic practices... »
Data Freedom versus Privacy – the great conundrum
With Sir Tim Berners-Lee taking on an advisory role to the UK government on how data can be freed up into the public domain, the idea of freeing data has come up for discussion again. It is generally agreed by most non-totalitarians that making government data public is a good thing; we don’t want our... »
Why would someone steal anothers hard work?
I have been puzzling why some one by the name of DniFan, a player of Wurm Online would want to steal someone else’s hard work? In this case, he and his little horde, including the likes of someone called Prometheus (I believe his real name is Joseph and, as a coincidence used to live... »