Nice and curious

This may be the most amusing advert ever made on the topic of release of clinical study data. At JibJab, of course.

I’ve just posted this map of Dorset to a very puerile thread on MetaFilter. Looking at it, it reminded me just how odd Dorset placenames are. I mean, aside from Piddletrenthide and Affpuddle, a good 50% of the names sound like romantic novel heroes (“Winterbourne Clenston held her in

Larry David discusses man-management a la Bolton on The Huffington Post.

Their coveron the resignation of Harold Wilson as Labour leader.

My son (2 years 9 months) pointed to a copy of the Economist today, and said “It’s PC Plum”. In fact, it was King Gyanendra of Nepal in military uniform, but close enough: Gyanendra: Plum: Thanks to The Acorn for the picture link.

The Unitarian Jihad. Extremism in defence of moderation is no vice.

Dennis Brown pushes the envelope on the tradition of not campaigning before papal elections.

I received a pamphlet from the Communication Workers’ Union the other day, on the importance of keeping the post office nationalised. The pamphlet, called Delivering Quality had one small problem – the title on the spine was Delivering Quaity. A quaity service all round from the CWU.

A history of the new wide-screen test card.

Well, no-one really. But this trippy movie (5Mb, Quicktime of course) might make you wonder what else they’re doing. (from the unhealthily obsessed people of Gizmodo).