Judging the World

The boys in brown

2006-03-19T20:26:00.000Z

You have to hand it to the Beige Brigade, they're the least fashionable sporting fans out there. Well, after ice hockey fans, anyway.

Bringing on the youth

2006-03-16T18:11:00.000Z

The australians have long mocked England for their elderly team, now they have a debutant at 30, following Mike Hussey recently making his test debut at the age of 74-ish.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4808186.stm

There was a fat fellow from Blighty...

2006-03-16T18:08:00.000Z

who's limericks were somewhat mighty...

http://www.thegoogly.com/2006/03/cricket_limeric.html

Perfect pitch

2006-03-04T17:44:00.000Z

George W Bush gets hit by a cricket pitch?

As my colleague stemmo commented 'A whole pitch?'

Painful. In so many ways.

Beyond our Ken

2006-02-24T14:45:00.000Z

Ken Livingstone has been suspended for four weeks from office for making a 'concentration camp guard' jibe to a Jewish reporter. From what I recall Livingstone made the comment to a reporter that had been dogging him for a long time, and suggested that he was 'just obeying orders' and that he was like a concentration camp guard. The reporter complained that he was offended, and Livingstone was unrepentant.

Quite honestly, this is bollocks. Whether it offends some people or not, the phrases 'like a concentration camp guard' and 'just obeying orders' are part of the vernacular these days. The idea that Livingstone should be removed from office, for whatever time, for a spat with a journalist is preposterous. Livingstone hasn't done himself any particular favours with the comments but he's absolutely right not to apologise.

Climate change hots up

2006-02-21T14:22:00.000Z

There was a pretty good programme on the BBC last night supporting the climate prediction project. The science was pretty flimsy, but on balance they hit the right note. Unfortunately if you're sceptical about human effects on global climate then you'd have been able to drive a bus through the gaps in their analysis. If, like me, you're sure that we're not doing ourselves any favours, then it did at least explore other explanations for the highly unusual trends in global climate over the past 150 years. I hope they go into a little more detail in future programmes.

Mustafa lot of time on their hands

2006-02-18T11:58:00.000Z

The UK 'adult shop' chain Ann Summers reports that it's oh-so-amusing sex doll 'Mustafa Shag' is offending muslims.

I think we're all getting a bit sick of this. I'm all for people being free to believe what they want, but where it starts to impact on the freedom of others to do exactly the same, then that's where it ends.

Save the world the easy way

2006-02-18T10:46:00.000Z

The BBC are helping out a new distributed computing experiment from Oxford University which will, according to the blurb, provide a horrendously accurate climate model with which to prove our spiral into certain death. Or something like that. Anyway, I ran the SETI screensaver for years, and I'm sure that saving this planet is more important than peering into the sky to find our alternate selves on some distant other planet. They're probably too busy saving their own arses to look for us, too.

If this application turns my computer into a sandcastle or renames every file on my HDD to farty.bin I'll let you know.

Most Popular Myths in science

2006-02-17T12:36:00.000Z

What? Chickens can't live without a head?
http://www.livescience.com/bestimg/result.php?back=&cat=myths

The Song Tapper

2006-02-16T21:59:00.000Z

The Song Tapper allegedly figures out what song you're tapping out on your space bar. Dammit if it didn't get 'She Loves You' by the Beatles straight away. Colour me amazed.

Work in the IT Department?

2006-02-16T16:22:00.000Z

I wanted to find a forum that included people in IT departments around the UK, but couldn't find one. So, in a moment of optimism, I created this blog http://theitdepartment.blogspot.com/ to fill the gap. If you fall into this category, please have a look.

Snowboarding silliness

2006-02-16T14:05:00.000Z

This game is ok, and thankfully you can hit a leading edge without terrible pain. I find you can also snowboard up the sides of mountains, which is a welcome improvement to the sport. Click the link above.

A cautionary tale

2006-02-15T21:40:00.000Z

about a monkey. For children, or maybe not.

You be the judge.

Not Safe For Humans

2006-02-15T16:21:00.000Z

Here's a thing. Can anyone look at this caricature of George W. Bush http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3379/553/1600/www.jpg without starting to feel ill?

BBC closes TMS messageboard

2006-02-15T13:08:00.000Z

As reported in Will's Corridor of Uncertainty blog, the BBC have had to close down their TMS messageboard after a huge amount of race-hate material was posted during the India-Pakistan ODI series. This Times article has more.

Battlestar Sadactica

2006-02-15T10:15:00.000Z

http://www.kropserkel.com/Images/kropcentonset.jpg

The things you miss - looking back at 9/11

2006-02-15T07:22:00.000Z

I completely missed this feature by Armando Ianucci on the post-9/11 hysteria. Well worth checking out.

Leave it alone, Pup

2006-02-14T20:27:00.000Z

From The Corridor of Uncertainty

http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archives/2006/02/14/jones-v-clarke-jones/

Nicely left, Mr Clarke...

Scrabble World Champion

2006-02-14T19:59:00.000Z

This is a bizarre story. Even more bizarre is how it's on This Is Leicestershire. Why there, and why now? Synopsis - woman buried alive moans about it after death. Urban Legend, I assume.

Handy sort of page

2006-02-14T16:22:00.000Z

I'm quite fond of fractals, mandelbrots, that kind of thing. However, looking at http://zapatopi.net/themes/dactylfractalzoom.html for very long just makes me feel sick. It ain't natural, I tells ya.

Geeky enough for ya?

2006-02-12T21:29:00.000Z

I must get one of these.

Act your age

2006-02-12T16:35:00.000Z

Video games keep you young, according to this research. Does that mean the same as 'restrict your development'?

Cartoon Frenzy here!

2006-02-12T16:17:00.000Z

I posted the Danish Cartoons on one of my hosting pages recently, because I was just pissed off that my freedom to comment or satirise might be diminished because someone holds a medieval belief. Having said that, I'm not in the business of gratuitous unpleasantness, so I took them down after a day or so. There is something called a 'Mohammed Blogburst' going on, which, if you're still looking for these cartoons, can be found here.

2006-02-11T23:00:00.000Z

Following the widespread condemnation of those craaazy muslims and their beliefs, turns out that you have to believe in a God to hold an office in several US states. From Sell The Ranch.

Age of discovery?

2006-02-11T14:32:00.000Z

Is it just me, or are the last few days full of discoveries? New tombs in the Valley of the kings, previously unknown species, and it turns out people want to kill you for satire.

We'd be moaning if life was dull.