Strangely Perfect

I didn’t think it was possible to cycle along the top of iron railings.  Now I know it’s possible.  I love the perseverance he shows. If he doesn’t do any major damage to himself I see a long career in advertising and films, don’t you? The music is singularily inappropriate. The link comes from someone [...]

Following on from the Google Street View roll-out, two issues have popped up – again; People’s privacy on the streets vis-a-vis a commercial organisation like Google People’s privacy on the streets vis-a-vis government organisations like local councils For the first, the self-appointed guardian “Privacy International” have made an official appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office [...]

I use a plugin to keep a handle on “link rot” called Broken Link Checker, and today I noticed a link on this post, The Man Who Ate the World – by Frederik Pohl was off. Checking the Plane Stupid website, I found this message: Site off-line The Plane Stupid website is currently down for [...]

In a new twist on the Oxford and Cambridge rivalry that spreads from the Boat Race, Varsity Rugby match etc to University Challenge and Prime Ministerial Power, the police in each town have a new take on cyclists riding without lights at night. Cycle lights campaign launched – Oxford In Oxford, the Plod give them [...]