Panic now!!: The Terrible Truth About Wi-Fi Meanwhile, Julia Stephenson has replied to Ben Goldacre’s criticism of her laughably unscientific (“Any imbalance in our electromagnetic field creates a disturbance in cell structure and function, which can lead to illness in sensitive individuals”) article on electrosensitivity: At one time scientists assured us the earth was flat […]
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For years, I’ve been getting the Independent on Sunday every week. I thought it was a pretty good paper, with an self-proclaimed independent slant on the news, and no fluff. However, it’s been going downhill for quite a while now, with less news coverage and more fashion, more celebrity garbage and more alarmist “We’re all […]
The government is spending squillions of money on our health service, yet hospitals and medical services don’t seem to be vastly improving. At least one NHS doctor is also wondering Where Does All The Money go?: My attention has today been drawn to the existence of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. May I […]
…that Cabinet Ministers, before being appointed, should have to pass a test demonstrating some basic knowledge of how this whole internet thingie actually works. We might then be spared the pathetic sight of a Home Secretary announcing that he has a surefire method of keeping track of the online activities of paedophiles. It would appear […]
Waking The Dead used to be one of my favourite TV crimes shows. Not any more. The latest series has just got too silly for words. The first story in the new series was some daft tale about nuns, Travellers, hallucingenics and a 2,000 year-old “Druid cult” (sic) that appeared to be Fight Club reinterpreted […]
Been struggling for the last three hours to get the new design for the Oakleaf Circle site cross-browser compatible. Which means making it look right in IE6, as well as Firefix and Opera. M$, of course, have their own bowser standards that don’t nessessarily coincide with those of other browsers. Which means that only the […]
Terrorists in Court (1) : This week a storythat made the front page in all the national press: a British Muslim pleaded guilty to “plotting mass murder through a series of terrorist outrages in the UK and the US“ In one of the few major successes for anti-terrorist investigators since September 11, Dhiran Barot, 34, […]
…a safe home, love, cuddles, good people lookng after them? Affordable food, education, medicine…? Nope. No siree, not if they are Christian children! Christian children need Armour of God PJsTM to keep all those damm demons away! (Thanks to Orac)
Well, that’s caught your eye. The Goverment has announced
Watching the news this morning, I found myself heartily wishing that all world leaders had compulsory work experience in nurseries. Imagine the current Middle East situation re-enacted in a nursery: Nursery Worker: “Sam! Johnny! Why are you fighting?” Johnny: “He hit me first!” Sam: “He was horrid to me! He’s always being horrid to me! […]