May 2006
Monthly Archive
The Da Vinci Choad
Posted on May 21 2006 | Tagged as: Film
Oh dear.
I quite liked the book; despite the fact that it’s an appallingly written load of fatuous old nonsense, it’s actually quite entertaining.
The film seems to have taken all the interesting bits of the book, discarded them, and made a film that is both truly execrable and mind-numbingly implausible.
With the notable exception of Paul Bettany, […]
Big Brother 2: Doubleplusgood
Posted on May 21 2006 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid, Media, Culture, TV
This was nearly a post about the wrongs of banning the Welsh contestants from speaking in their own language on the show, after seeing a headline in one local newspaper (can’t remember which) yesterday that read: “Fury as Big Brother Bans Welsh”.
Then I thought I’d better check my facts, and revealed this:
“Housemates are free to […]
Big Brother
Posted on May 21 2006 | Tagged as: Culture, TV
I’ve only seen the first episode so far - not out of deliberate avoidance, just that I haven’t been in - but I refuse to believe that at least some of these people aren’t actors.
Iran
Posted on May 14 2006 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid, Religion
During the course of researching an article, I came across www.holycrime.com - a thoroughly horrible site cataloguing what the Iranian judiciary gets up to. This is a particularly grim example.
Hollow Man
Posted on May 13 2006 | Tagged as: Politics
There was an interesting remark on Comment Is Free the other day (I’d find the exact page, but I can’t be bothered - I’ve got one article to write, another to research and it’s Cup Final day) that pointed out that the Labour Party was never the “workers vanguard”, but was about “Keynesian Economics and […]
Frittering my spam
Posted on May 13 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Admin Notices
I’ve managed to install Wordpress’s spam-killing plugin, so disregard the notice about comments below.
Human wrongs
Posted on May 13 2006 | Tagged as: The Stupid, Media
Gary gets angry about the Sun’s campaign to have the Human Rights Act repealed, which the management government seems to be swallowing.
35000 people have called the Sun’s hotline backing their campaign.
That’s about the population of a small town, so perhaps we should just suspend human rights in one town.
Barking?
How science ruins music: a painful exercise in pedantry
Posted on May 11 2006 | Tagged as: Science, Music, Pedantry
Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars,
let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars
Will just sang that at me.
However…
Since Mars and Jupiter have inclinations to the ecliptic of only 1.85 degrees and 1.31 degrees respectively, there would be no discernable seasons, so spring on Mars and Juptier […]
Comments are free; advertising is not
Posted on May 10 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Admin Notices
After attracting a spammer trying to flog some rather dodgy-sounding drugs, I’ve changed the comment approval system.
Comments from people without a previous approved post will need to be manually okayed by me.
No; this probably won’t make the least bit of difference to most of you.
I was infantilised from an early age
Posted on May 04 2006 | Tagged as: Work
The National Assembly has a specific procedure for submissions to ministers. This is part of it. Read. Weep.
Who can write a submission?
Anyone. But it’s normal for all submissions to be approved at Head of
Division level or above.
How should I place papers on the submission folder?
There is a standard way to do this, which aids readability. […]