Trick or Treat – Again
This time of the year is perhaps the most miserable for me. It starts with Halloween and the obnoxious trick or treating that is about to […]
Month: October 2007
Don’t These People Have Editors?
A story by Richard Alleyne in the Telegraph on the matter of very old clams: So significant is the find that Help The Aged have […]
One of Those Silly Quizzes.
Tags: silly+quizzes
Politicans; Completely Useless?
Via the Devil’s Kitchen, I am drawn to the plight of those MPs who lose their seats and discover that life after politics it isn’t all […]
Dolan Cummings Talks Arse
Dolan Cummings repeats the tired mantra of the religious nut-cases in the Times today: The desire to belong has made atheism into its own religion. […]
Happy Birthday
Longrider Blog is three years old this week – on the 23rd, to be precise. In the three years that I’ve been doing this, I’ve […]
Smoking Lie Detector
Via Nourishing Obscurity, this little gem: A simple device for detecting carbon monoxide in the blood may help doctors get an honest answer out of […]
Chipping the Children
Via the Arch Blog, this little piece of statist nastiness: Children are being tracked by micro-chips embedded in their uniforms in a trial at a […]
Statistics, Data and damned Liars
So, in the wake of the nasty little fascists seeking to tell us how much we should drink, we now find that the data upon […]
BBC Strike?
Unions are threatening to strike if the BBC cuts go ahead: Broadcasting unions have unanimously voted to ballot for strike action if planned job cuts […]