by Tom | May 4, 2010 | Government
If you are in one of the 30 key seats that may determine a hung parliament, and want one, you can see which way you should vote thanks to progressive parliament (Vote for a Change promises to do so too, but asks you to sign up first).VoteMatch (30 manifesto-based...
by Tom | Apr 29, 2010 | Asides
RT @wired wins a #Min Best of the Web award for Overall Use of Video! Congrats @asavage! <– Nice work Annaliza! #
by Tom | Apr 22, 2010 | Business
Dear MyDisk user You have had a free account for more than 6 months. Please login to www.MyDisk.se and pay the yearly fee of 5$. The account will be deleted if not paid within 14 days. Best regards, [email protected]...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2010 | Personal, Reading
No, not the sort you think. Read the article <rant>Would they use the word “suggest” if the crime figures had gone up? They say “show” later in the article, so why not in the headline?</rant>Crime figures are down 7% 2008 to 2009,...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2010 | Business
It’s a great business that manages to stiff its customers (us) and its employees (musicians). An oldie but a goodie to help you understand. Summary:The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2010 | Reading
Tab is on about 26 minutes in. Huzzah!
by Tom | Apr 21, 2010 | Science
Still a while away from humans, and still only dealing with symptoms, this is still a big thing. Post-metastasis is the phase of cancer where survival rates tend to drop (from 93% 5-year to 2.5-year with skeletal metastases in prostate cancer) and the severity...
by Tom | Apr 21, 2010 | Personal, Reading
A lengthy, but interesting article covering the effort that Rowan Williams is expending to prevent the Anglican church from schisming over gay and / or female bishops. There is a great counter argument to the “It is the tradition of the church”: so was...
by Tom | Apr 21, 2010 | Government, Personal
Nice to see lots of information being made public during the process of refreshing Camden’s customer-facing website. Normally this would be written up at the end in a gushing or arse-covering manner. Sharing the detail of the process actually makes it useful for...
by Tom | Apr 20, 2010 | Personal
Hitchens makes a strong case for us seriously considering arresting the Pope. Johan Hari makes a slightly more shouty one (at 3 minutes in). Dawkins has some stupdly ad-hominem comments (“leering old villain in a frock” is a classic quote, but...
