Of all the images available from 2011, some of them of dramatic natural disasters, revolutions, mass jubilation, probably this one stands out for its simplicity
Month: December 2011
Motivate to Metric NOW
Good to hear that Ireland has removed all the silly imperial roadsigns spouting stuff like ‘miles per hour’ speed limits and has properly replaced them
The Christian fear of sexuality continues…
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My Christmas tree fear
Phew! Christmas is over for another year, and my eyes can stop watering. Now, you know people have phobias? Some people run screaming and wet
Real man’s Engineering Guide
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The domestic violence of Christmas
A repeat article from last Christmas to help us pause for thought: Having ingested four times more than a single human’s portion of food on
So this is Christmas…
It’s Christmas Day. For a majority of the planet today is just another day. However, for most of the English speaking and ‘western’ world it’s
What’s Christmas?
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Christmas shoppers are nutters
Rush rush rush. It’s Christmas. Panic Panic Panic. Are Christmas shoppers raving mad? Apart from the slightly odd thing that shops are selling stuff for
The ‘special personal attention mail’ folder
My life is sorted. Thanks to some kind people who I didn’t know before going through a folder in my email system called ‘Spam’, my
How a Greek Bailout works
It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is
Going to a Carol Service
It’s weird being an outsider, y’know. But, I went to a Carol Service, ‘cos it was Christmas, innit. Ok, let’s examine this: I didn’t go
Tallbloke’s solicitor makes ready to sue
A letter from Wilde & Co. To: All those who feel offended and/or threatened by the actions taken against innocent climate enthusiast Roger Tattersall aka
Facebookers make ready to jump off bridges
The Facebork timelines have finally arrived for the prolls using Facebork. (Oh dear.) Blood before Christmas! (Where’s my popcorn?) As a very important person,
Greenie loonies libel the Tallbloke
Years ago when women were accused by the religion of the day (usually Christianity) of being witches, the representatives of that religion couldn’t wait to
Climate Change sceptic’s home raided
It isn’t a good time to be a blogger in search of the truth. Police have raided the home of a blogger in Norfolk, the
Pants prove Global Warming
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Are we ready for a frozen life when the Sun goes out?
It’s fairly obvious to anybody but the weirdest, that the primary driving force of the overall temperatures of the different hemispheres on this planet of ours is
Crosby has never been part of Liverpool
Yes, I have complained before about outsiders pretending they are ‘Scousers’ or pretending have something to do with Liverpool (here). But, I’m about to complain
The concept radio show
Maybe I don’t realise it but I am potentially sounding like a long haired dinosaur rock enthusiast. Lovers of ‘progressive rock’ will lament the passing
Climategate 2.0: Cameron’s adviser is now sceptical
So, if mainstream news media reports are to be believed, it appears that the UK Prime Minister’s ‘green guru’ has sussed that the whole man
What are the wind turbines for?
Now then, stop me if I’m wrong, but aren’t wind turbines supposed to be furiously generating electricity when it’s windy? I mean, that’s their whole
Charlie Brooker is annoying
Charlie Brooker starts off as slightly annoying, but can get as far as very annoying. Brooker looking annoyed Charlie Brooker is not just annoying because
Climategate 2.0: The greenie religion
Followers of Science: When the people from CERN fired a neutrino or two and they arrived at a destination far faster than they should have
What makes radio grate in Liverpool?
Apparently there’s a conference today in Liverpool, to discover what’s ‘great’ about radio in Liverpool. Well, of course, Liverpool only actually has five station based
Climategate 2.0: The BBC bias exposed
It is traditional during times of conflict, that the state media be used to propagate a hatred of the enemy. It is important that those
Gary Speed and suicide
Sometimes we have to make assumptions. Not being a close member of the family, I of course don’t know the true facts. I, like you,
Climategate 2.0: All our models are wrong
Here’s a brilliantly written piece by Andrew Orlowski, published here originally. Andrew is a regular writer on technology and environment for The Register, and all
Jeremy Clarkson, the last TV hero
TV presenter, writer and personality, Jeremy Clarkson is probably the last living right-of-centre broadcaster allowed on British TV. He probably only survives because the Top
Climategate 2.0: The next tranche
Last month, whoever ‘stole’ or ‘liberated’ the original emails from the server at the University of East Anglia, that were then circulated and back in
A perspective on Climate Change
Sometimes a simple graphic illustrates it all. Here we have two graphs that make that point very well. When looking at the famous ‘hockey-stick’ graph
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