New Kinds of Crime

Mr Brown told a crime conference in west London: "We face new kinds of crime - especially knife crime, organised crime, ...

Bad Simile

Sarah Palin is like a bad simile: at first she seems to offer a fresh new perspective but later you realise she doesn't really fit, contradicts herself, and is kind of dumb.

Much like this post in fact.

A tax on the stupid?

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.

The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: "On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.

You tell 'em Tina!

A certain discrepancy

I rarely read the news these days, I only glance over the headlines. Here are two of today's headlines:

Madrid victims attack 'leniency'
Angry victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings have vowed to appeal over what they see as the trial court's lenient treatment of some of the accused.


and ...

Madrid bombers sentenced to 40,000 years

Mattel apologies personally to the people of china

How does a corporation apologise personally

Dan's law of conversations

as the length of a conversation increases, the chance of facebook being mentioned approaches one

Dawkism

There is no God, and Richard Dawkins is his prophet