Strangely Perfect

Wassup I use a myriad of plugins on my website (and have tested zillions more). A plugin, for those that don’t know, is an add-on to the basic WordPress install that I use to run this blog.  You can get plugins for all sorts of blogging, forum and CMS systems… Anyway, for a week, I’m [...]

Free Kareem Amer I’ve just added a neat plugin to this website by the noted author, Michael Torbert.  His plugins probably have more usage than any others on the world! It’s a “Free Kareem” plugin, devoted to furthering the cause of er … freeing Kareem Amer who’s been incarcerated and tortured for two years in [...]

WARNING:  This Posting Contains Illegal Pictures I Can Be Imprisoned for Publishing Them. A little realised consequence of Bush’s ‘war on terror’ and the ramping up of common hysteria across the English speaking western world is, bizarrely, that it’s now illegal to take pictures of people commemorating, in a patriotic symbolic way, the lives and [...]

Chinese Censorship: As part of the BBCs “take” on the international views on the new, 44th President of the United States, their China correspondent Michael Bristow has reported that his inauguration speech was censored in China. Apparently, the English version on the Xinghua News site is okay, but the Chinese version for the locals has [...]

Some wonderful news this week for people worried about the real future of our world. The EU are hammering down on car emissions! EU rejects efforts to delay CO2 limits on cars RPT-UPDATE 2-EU lawmakers snub big carmakers over carbon curbs Blow to carmakers Climate package: Carbon-free cars? (pre-vote EU Parliament post) Reducing CO2 emissions [...]

Actually, I don’t count Redhill as part of Somerset – it’s really part of Bristol, with all that entails… Family flee neo-Nazi rally Nazi comments caught on camera When I saw the headlines last night, I thought, “surely some exaggeration”.  Well apparently not!  Hordes of Nazi types really did descend on a skanky motel-ish camping-type [...]

Hanny’s Voorwerp is a new type of astronomical object that’s been found by a Dutch woman as part of the Galaxy Zoo project.  The BBC were the first English speaking news outlet to pick up on this, here: Teacher finds new cosmic object Hanny Van Arkel,started this caper after she read a book by Queen [...]

Six young people died at about 2 this morning on the A607 just south-west of Melton  Mowbray. This is where it was.  It was a bend of about 45 degrees on a 40mph double white-lined single carriageway road. Bizarrely, one of the father’s blames the police for confiscating his son’s car as he was driving [...]

Why buy Vista?  Now there’s a question. Microsoft continue to say that Vista sales are much higher than XP ever was.  But this is being disingenuous with the figures.  The fact is that most of the “sales” are as pre-installs on OEM machines.  Fair play to Microsoft, they have driven the business for years and [...]

Two comments on a recent CTC mailing. The death of Sheldon Brown and the aquittal of a Critical Mass Event person, arrested for obstruction of the highway with a “non-motor vehicle”. The post veers off on an entertaining rant about freedom of the individual and also Monty Python and the Lupin sketch. (Dennis Moore)

A bit like Jill’s drive across Africa see here, which was powered by pure will and determination, these guys are doing the same trip but in a chocolate miss-shapes powered van. Fair play – but not as hard I hazard. Still, they’re leaving the vehicle much like on Jill’s expedition.