by Tom | Nov 19, 2009 | Reading
2009 UN World Drug report in pictures . Depressing photos: many from Mexico are simply incredible. Real life is definitely keeping ahead of the movies, and not in a good way.
by Tom | Nov 19, 2009 | Science
Saturn. What would Galileo have thought if he could have seen these images?
by Tom | Nov 19, 2009 | Reading
Sometimes The Big Picture is depressing, because all of the photos are far better than you could ever imagine taking. Certainly true of these animal photos. I particularly liked the pygmy hippos: …the paddleboarding next to a whale… …and the Gaza...
by Tom | Nov 17, 2009 | Business, Government, Reading
Surowiecki has a couple of articles looking at banking and debt. He wonders if the crisis has meant that banks have become bigger, or at least the ones that we feel comfortable using. Seperately, he suggests (and I think rightly) that we are predisposed to use debt...
by Tom | Nov 16, 2009 | Government
£3k doesn’t sound like too much to run a Twitter account for BIS. I guess it depends how many followers they have and what benefits that gives to the Department, of course. You can find other costs on a TheyWorkForYou search.
