Page 123 Commissioned by Paul to: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 123 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the next three sentences. 5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you. So, the nearest book is Republicanism: a shared European heritage by van Gelderen and Skinner
Comments page goes mad at the Argus Some teenager was killed in a police chase in east Brighton today, and the Argus piece on the story rather foolishly allowed comments. Lots of not-surprising gloating from the law-and-order brigade, then the dead boy’s family turn up.
She'd rather get nekkid than eat meat, probably So this is weird, as campaigns go. PETA – animal rights group who bang on about vegetarianism a lot – have got a “State of the Union” address on their website that involves some cutie talking about how meat is bad while removing all her clothes. It does make it a bit
Gripping stuff This is the lead story in the Wadhurst parish council newsletter. Queen’s Cottages: The Planning Inspector allowed the appeal against the Planning Application refused by the District & Parish Councils and granted outline planning permission for the proposed development subject to a number of conditions. A link to the
Vote for genitals! The NHS is inviting people to vote on whether the interactive bodymaps on the NHS website should have accurately represented genitals or not. Admirably democratic of them, I think.
New BBC homepage My first impressions of the new customizable BBC Homepage is: I like that they’ve got the clock I remember from schools programming up in the top right.
spEak You’re bRanes Some wonderful person has taken the risk to their sanity that is reading the Jerk Your Knee forums on the BBC and compiled the stupidest and most offensive into a blog called spEak You’re bRanes. Just great.
Different views Another illustration of the American media attitude. Telegraph headline on the Polish elections: “Texts fire up young Polish voters”. Guardian story: “Polish twins fear the youth verdict. Washington post headline on their story? “Poland Vote Touches on U.S. Defense Plan”. Because hey, who cares about anything else? However, while