February 2008
Monthly Archive
Geography lessons
Posted on Feb 19 2008 | Tagged as: The Stupid, Media
Pakistan’s impenetrable Tora Bora is unreachable because of its alienation, in legal and civic terms, from the rest of the country
So alienated, in fact, that’s it’s in Afghanistan.
Green light to tell porkies
Posted on Feb 13 2008 | Tagged as: Politics, Just no
Labour can’t even be bothered to keep up the pretence of honesty any more:
The public should not expect promises made in Labour Party manifestos to be kept. That was the astonishing claim made by Gordon Brown’s barrister at Brighton County Court in a case brought against him by a member of the UK Independence Party.
Speaking […]
PaperSpacePlanes
Posted on Feb 10 2008 | Tagged as: Science, Farce
A Japanese astronaut is planning to release some paper planes in orbit later this year:
Should one of the fleet miraculously make it to Earth, its journey will have been about 300 miles, no doubt the longest flight for a paper plane. function pictureGalleryPopup(pubUrl,articleId) { var newWin = window.open(pubUrl+’template/2.0-0/element/pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id=’+articleId+’&&offset=0&§ionName=WorldAsia’,’mywindow’,’menubar=0,resizable=0,width=615,height=655′); }
The planes […]