Too short for a blog post, too long for Twitter. Tends to be links, politics, rational approaches to homeopathy and Intelligent Design.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
And even high-minded newspapers such as the Guardian decided more than two decades ago to fill their pages with trivia because they judged that the general public was becoming dumber and shallower.
Melanie Phillips, columnist for the Daily Mail. I don’t link to the Daily Mail on principle.
Let’s look at the statistics.
Number of celebrity-related stories on the front page of the Daily Mail website today: 77.
Number of celebrity-related stories on the front page of the Guardian website today: 0.
Number of Melanie Phillips columns in the Daily Mail today: 1.
Number of Melanie Phillips columns in the Guardian today: 0.
(via tommorrisdotorg)
Thanks to psd:
Gold price hits all-time high of $1,589.56 on US debt concerns
Makes our ex-Prime Minister and ex- Chancellor Gordon Brown’s decision to sell 395 tonnes of British gold between July 1999 and March 2002 at an average price of $275.60 an ounce seem almost prescient.
If you wanted to screw the country even more.
BBC News - Public sector pension liabilities top £1 trillion
that’s a fair amount of liability, and tucked away in there is a mention of PFI liabilities.
They do add that liabilities will fall in 50 years, owing to the RPI/CPI changes
Meanwhile, US law may enter the fray. A former Labour cabinet minister has alerted attention to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes an American company (News Corp) liable for colossal fines if any employee bribes a foreign official (the Met police) even if no one at head office knew. What’s more, any whistleblower inside the company (sacked News of the World reporters), stands to win a percentage of that fine if they report acts of bribery.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Tom Morris: +1 and Google+: no thanks, fuck off.
I guess I’ll get the useful stuff out the way first:
google.com##button.eswd
Add this to your Adblock custom filter list and all those silly ‘+1’ buttons on Google search results will go away.
Why would I not want to participate in Google’s glorious new social networking system?
Simple.
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A fairly clear statement of feeling.
I suspect like Wave, it isn’t going to cut it. However, unlike Tom, I’d like an invite - just to see…
