…Courtesy of The Religious Policeman, here’s some blasphemous emoticons! Instructions: 1. Rotate your screen 90 degrees to the right. 2. Don’t forget to take that coffee cup off first. Oops, too late, should have made that instruction 1. 3. Read the emoticons. What do they say? Try not to drool on the keyboard. 4. Rotate […]
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In web design, accessibility means making a site accessible to all. Sounds pretty obvious and simple, doesn’t it? You make a site, put it up on the web and everyone can read it. Can’t they? Well, no, it’s not quite that simple. Most people automatically assume that building a website is simply a matter of […]
In astrology, a Solar return chart is a chart set for the moment your natal sun returns to the exact position it occupied at the moment of your birth. In other words, it’s an annual ‘birthday chart’ that gives the flavour of the coming year for the person concerned; it is read and interpreted the […]
…to ressurrect my “Worst Website of the Week” catagory when I come across sites like Joe Pasquale’s fansite. But remembering my experience the last time – no, I won’t be starting it up again as a regular feature. However, I couldn’t resist this one time – this really is a terrible piece of design. And […]
…You know – Why is the fluff in your navel always blue? Why do men wear ties? What is Steve Fossett for? Well, i’ve come across another one of life’s mysteries. Yesterday, I was looking at a website I’d not come across before. It was fine, except for one page, where all the text was […]
Gordon Brown has just finished his speech – the one that he evidently hopes will let everyone know that he is stepping into Mr. Tony’s shoes. I’ve only been listening to bits of it, as I rush around the house. But it seems to me that he’s lost it. Totally. He’s announced the introduction of […]
Now here’s a curious thing – it appears that those “blasphemous” cartoons that have got the Muslim world in such an uproar were published in an Eyptian newspaper last October; less than a month after they appeared in Denmark but a good three months before anybody in the Middle East started making a fuss over […]
Some of the news you didn’t see last week, from SchNEWS MISSILE DEFIANCE – VICTORY AS EDO INJUNCTION TRIAL MISFIRES Another blow struck for free speech in Sussex. The nasty little stitch up between Sussex Police, arms dealers EDO MBM and protest bashing lawyer Timothy Lawson Cruttenden (see SchNEWS 492, 471) to crush dissent has […]
Spotted this Doonesbury cartoon. I don’t remember inviting that cartoonist around to my house! 🙂
I don’t mind cats, actually. I quite like them, and am always polite to any felines I happen to meet. However, I don’t like ‘cat people’, people who can’t seem to go five minutes without talking about or looking at or fussing over their pets. Charlie Stross’ blog is one of the places I go […]