It says in Boing Boing that DEET, the well-known insect repellent, is neurotoxic.
I suppose it must have been the thick end of thirty years ago when my brother and I went to the Isle of Lewis in my old Land-Rover (it was an archaeological thing; I was taking the photos).
The midges on Lewis are perhaps [...]
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I could have told ‘em that dept.
Posted in outdoor pursuits, tagged poison on 7 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you read these banned books? If not, why not?
Posted in Uncategorized on 26 May, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Today’s micromeme is due to the reliable and well-informed wh00ps, who has by what seem to be convoluted and tortuous means obtained a list of the books banned by some totalitarian toe-rag claiming to be something to do with ‘education’.
How many of these books have you read, and how many will you read?
>The Perks of [...]
Execution Dock
Posted in Uncategorized on 5 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Fido the Dog on the unexpected hazards of professional fishing, citing a story in the Telegraph:
In December 2007 the two McBrides appeared in Liverpool Crown Court, having pleaded guilty earlier in the year to misidentifying catches of fish for which they had no quota under EU rules. But instead of just asking for fines to [...]
The first rule of censorship
Posted in literature, tagged censorship on 18 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It says on Slashdot that
“Computer Shopper magazine has interviewed the UK Home Office about its relationship with the Internet Watch Foundation and discovered that the government doesn’t actually know what the IWF does, although it still plans to force UK ISPs to subscribe to the IWF’s blacklist… the IWF investigates suspected child porn websites and [...]
Radicalised
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 February, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
There are three kinds of fools. Fools, bloody fools, and the politically correct (Atlas Shrugs, via Al Jahom).
Inspector Tom Galbraith, of Lothian and Borders Police’s diversity unit… said, “It is not about treating everybody the same. If I have a young Asian man who has [...]
The Pullman effect (II)
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Further to the last posting about Philip Pullman’s missing polemic: I have updated the original post, the link now being broken. A copy of the work is also available at The Libertarian Alliance.
Alpha Inventions: another result
Posted in Uncategorized on 27 February, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“This Sketch is getting Silly.”
[Python]
I recently posted a report on the result of using the service provided by alphainventions.com.
It was suggested that if one were to write a piece plugging their service one would get more reads.
I did this, including no fewer than seven identical links to the service, as above.
The statistics today record [...]
WordRepressed again
Posted in Uncategorized on 12 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
WordPress is wiggy again this morning, discarding drafts and replacing them with blank pages. Normal service will be resumed, etc. I will try switching it off and switching it back on again.
…the glaciers had come again
Posted in Uncategorized on 31 January, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Daily Telegraph (disappointingly unharrumphable today) has this picture:
A sculpture of a polar bear and her cub stranded on an iceberg was floated down the Thames to raise awareness of climate change.
Hmm.
Out of a side-street something huge and white moved suddenly into his field of vision. For a moment his mind refused to accept the [...]
“I am the man who gives the word, if it should come, to use the Bomb.”
Posted in Uncategorized on 27 January, 2009 | 4 Comments »
[Peter Appleton]
The Cynical Libertarian remarks forthrightly on this BBC item about how
Young trainee officers at Strathclyde Police search social networking sites for pictures of people posing with weapons, mainly knives… Superintendent Bob Hamilton… says…If they were posing in a public place, like on the street or a park, the law has been broken and they’ll [...]
