the white whale must die

Second chances

2011-02-17T04:16:00.001-08:00

Wait, I thought Dave believed in giving people a second chance. http://bit.ly/icK8Rx http://bit.ly/gUFzqj

Good King Wenceslas

2010-01-04T07:06:00.000-08:00

In Washington Sq, in New York, on Christmas Eve, we only sang the first verse of each carol.

Good King Wenceslas looked out, saw a poor man gathering fuel in the cruel frost, then presumably went back to bed untroubled by his conscience while the singers moved on to something jaunty about Santa Claus.

Reading 100 Poems in a day

2009-11-26T12:12:00.000-08:00

Today I will be reading 100 Poems, one every ten minutes. It's going to be tough I know, especially as I will be doing this as well as a full day of work, but I reckon I can pull it off.

New Kinds of Crime

2009-05-14T02:20:00.000-07:00

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

Bad Simile

2008-10-06T05:59:00.000-07:00

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?

2007-11-07T01:35:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-01T09:05:00.001-07:00

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

2007-10-12T08:15:00.000-07:00

How does a corporation apologise personally

Dan's law of conversations

2007-09-04T07:44:00.000-07:00

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

Dawkism

2007-07-27T01:27:00.000-07:00

There is no God, and Richard Dawkins is his prophet

Cory Doctrow is a Twat

2007-01-10T11:18:00.000-08:00

somebody had to say it

Petition

2007-01-09T02:25:00.000-08:00

sign me

(yes, I know I fucked up the date)

Taglines #1

2006-11-10T01:30:00.000-08:00

The War On Terror: putting the mess back in Mesoptamia since ought three.

human lefts

2006-11-06T03:42:00.000-08:00

Some bod from a human rights organisation on the news on Friday asked if the trial of Saddam Husein was fair.

'We won't know that till we hear the verdict.'

Bless.

the up up bottom particle

2006-10-24T03:44:00.000-07:00

Scientists at fermilab have discovered a new proton variant, the new particle is composed of two up quarks and one rare bottom quark. The up up bottom particle is said to be the funniest particle since the discovery of the hardon.

Avast!

2006-07-06T01:22:00.000-07:00

Yonder, 'tis the white whale