Monthly Archives: April 2005
Local Shops – f**ckem
I decided to shop locally – it’s convenient, I thought, and probably not that much more expensive than buying over the net. Sandpaper, glue and a clamp – about seventeen pounds. If I’d bought them from Screwfix the exact same … Continue reading
Motion Induced Blindness
Wowser! Here’s a page with a great… well I don’t know if you’d call it an optical illusion or not. I suppose that’s what it is. Motion Induced Blindness
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Bogus blogs snare fresh victims (not)
This stupid story claims that Bogus blogs snare fresh victims without having a single example of any victim being snared by a bogus blog. It’s a terrific example of the sort of extremely bad tech journalism that the BBC excels … Continue reading
The Greenwich Time Signal has gone flat
Even as I write this BBC engineers are hard at work trying to find out what is wrong with the Greenwich Time Signal. The GTS is played in the seconds leading up to the top of the hour, ever hour … Continue reading
Doh
I just heard the Tory candidate for Redditch talking on the radio. She said that Conservative leader Michael Howard had “drawn a line in the sand, all our cards are on the table now.” It wasn’t a slip of the … Continue reading
BBC doesn’t fall for tech hoax
Well, I’ll be. Wired just printed a story admitting that the story they did about toothing (picking up partners for casual sex by sending messages to Bluetooth enabled mobile phones) was a hoax. They even have a link to a … Continue reading
The end of the Tories?
It’s a bit parochial of me, but I was rather glad to hear the following sentence in a report on the World Service about the impending British election. Current opinion polls suggest Mr Blair is on course to win a … Continue reading
BBC falls for yet another hoax
World Briefing on the BBC World Service ran a three and a half minute piece today by a man they described as a Washington based journalist, James Srodes. In fact they ran it at least four times, maybe more. It … Continue reading
Riddley Walker
I just finished re-reading my favourite book, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. I first read it at school, at about the same time that I read my other favourite novel, Peter Carey’s Bliss. Put those two books together and you’ve … Continue reading