Tuesday, April 19, 2005

On the move I'm trying out TypePad. Come and see me over there. 6:05:52 PM    comment []

Friday, April 15, 2005

Strange Reaction Very obscure punk music? By all means. 10:46:47 PM    comment []

Viva el Unitarian Jihad! The Unitarian Jihad. Extremism in defence of moderation is no vice. 10:37:09 PM    comment []

Hang the gays and burn the foreigners - Howard If I've ever said that a Government statement sounded like a Daily Mail headline, I'm sorry, OK? Now I realise how terrifying that would really be. 1:51:30 PM    comment []

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Who should I vote for? Your expected outcome: Labour Your actual outcome:      Labour 20 Conservative -51           Liberal Democrat 50 UK Independence Party -24           Green 20 You should vote: Liberal Democrat The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care for the elderly free across the UK, and scrap university tuition fees. They are in favour of a ban on smoking in public places, but would relax laws on cannabis. They propose to change vehicle taxation to be based on usage rather than ownership. Take the test at Who Should You Vote For 11:58:48 PM    comment []

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Green party manifesto The Green Party, practising what it preaches (or saving money) is releasing an online-only manifesto. 9:14:08 PM    comment []

Vote for free expression Vote for the blogs that best support freedom of expression around the world. 9:10:03 PM    comment []

Monday, April 11, 2005

Let us, kind Lesbia, give away... A fantastic multi-lingual edition of Catullus. 7:29:20 PM    comment []

Electiontastic A great list of UK election resources at DO-wire. 2:59:48 PM    comment []

Saturday, April 9, 2005

Brewing in Horsham I had a good pint while I was out today - Hepworth's Pullman Ale, brewed in Horsham. I looked on the internet for more information on the brewery and found this interesting article on the fate on brewing in Horsham. If reading it makes you want to support a local Sussex brewer, I can recommend Harveys of Lewes. 6:29:47 PM    comment []

Thursday, April 7, 2005

Find an alternative to Starbucks with... Starbucks Delocator. 8:20:41 PM    comment []

The arrogance of small media So, that Terri Schiavo memo that was obviously a fake, er, wasn't a fake. But it was, umm, not completely accurately presented, or something. Is there a moral equivalence between bloggers who get it wrong, and 'big media' who get it wrong? Metafilter discusses. 8:14:57 PM    comment []

A Pope-y political broadcast Dennis Brown pushes the envelope on the tradition of not campaigning before papal elections. 8:02:17 PM    comment []

Who owns Osama bin Laden? Martin Peretz writes about the war on terror in the current New Republic. He says, inter alia: What the Bush administration gradually came to realize was that fighting the Muslim terrorist international could not be done in a vacuum. Even if one agrees that Al-Qaeda and their allies are a 'terrorist international' (they are certainly less organised than the Communist version), it sounds very wrong to describe them as the "Muslim terrorist international". That infelicitous phrase implies some sort of sponsorship arrangement on behalf of the hundreds of millions of Muslims who want nothing to do with bin Laden. To compare a similar case, would the IRA have been called "the Catholic terrorist organisation"? Or - perhaps even more like the current situation - would ETA, the IRA, the Red Brigades have been banded together as a "Catholic terrorist international"? Bin Laden and his ilk are terrorists, are Muslims, and are - at least perhaps - an 'international'. But then again, they all have beards and read the Koran. Can we settle on 'beardy terrorist international'? 6:03:25 PM    comment []