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3rd
- Old man dog → It was cold.
4th
- Houses of Parliament → Me and my brother went on the Houses of Parliament tour today. It’s super duper! The tour is free, but you have to ask your MP for tickets. Westminster Palace is mightily impressive and toffed up to the nines with gold and silk and frescos and all that, and obviously built in a time when [...]
12th
- Geek tragedy and website pensions → Dave mentioned yesterday how RMS saw himself as a tragic character who would ultimately be remembered as some guy who wrote some code in Linux. As of today, searches for “Richard Stallman” on the major search engines return his personal website first, but Wikipedia’s entry on him is a close second. When his main loop [...]
- More gardening → I am enamoured of the idea that gardening is the secret to happiness, provided you adopt a wide enough definition of gardening. Maintaining a website falls within that general area, and it does indeed give me satisfaction to trim back bugs here, polish an old water feature there, and mow the comments occasionally. So I [...]
18th
- Back to the Future: The Ride: The Obituary → They’re closing Back to the Future: The Ride. Orlando’s version of the ride has already gone, and the one in Universal Studios Hollywood is closing this September. Wikipedia has a passable entry describing the plot, but boy is it a case of you had to be there. It’s an awesome ride, even for non-fans. The first [...]
19th
- Jihad → Rushdie title protest ‘may spark mockery’: Pakistan’s comments on the author Salman Rushdie’s knighthood contributes to insulting freedom of speech, and may lead to ridiculing Islam, a CoJ cleric says. Such actions are the root cause of people making fun of Islam, your correspondent screamed into the void. The blogger later said he had not meant to condone [...]
- Won’t somebody please think of the children? → Manhunt 2 banned in the UK. The BBFC have the right to censor games as well as films, and their refusal to give Manhunt 2 a classification means you are not allowed to buy it in the UK. However, you are still free to import it from abroad for your own personal use. There are precisely [...]
26th
- Shrek the Third, Sicko and Universal Healthcare → I’ve seen two films this week. The first was Shrek the Third, and it was ordinary in the extreme. A bird of some kind entered the theatre and pecked around up in front of the projector. It could’ve been a seagull, but its neck was too long. The manager was kind enough to give us [...]
- We’re all busted → UK: 60% of the population admit to criminal behaviour. Brazil:75% of the population admit to criminal behaviour, and a different 75% tolerate corruption in politics. So are governments and corporations right to treat their citizens and customers as criminals? The Brazil article gives some clues: A columnist in the weekly magazine Veja points to a previous scandal known as [...]