Feeling bizarrely spaced… # Just saw Derek ‘Labour List’ Draper & Paul ‘Guido Fawkes’ Staines on the BBC – http://bit.ly/lSRhe – & they both damaged political blogging. # Does anyone know why they would terminate a bus three stops from the end of the line?Very annoying. # Lord Oakeshott has used parliamentary privilege to get [...]

Lord Oakeshott, a LibDem peer, has used parliamentary privilege to say what everyone knew: the seven Barclays memos about tax avoidance schemes are available on Wikileaks. Those are the memos that Barclays had removed by an injunction – aka gagging order – at half past two in the morning on the seventeenth of March. From [...]

Condoms and HIV prevention: Position statement by UNAIDS, UNFPA and WHO – http://bit.ly/RnjhC # Really not feeling particularly well. # Turns out that theaudience – Sofie Ellis-Bextor’s band – weren’t half bad. http://bit.ly/Zv3u # Hurray for CSI Miami! # I am bizarrely tired and my head feels like its full of cotton wool. Something tells [...]

A little while ago, Ben ‘Bad Science‘ Goldacre had a little bit of a run-in with anti-vaccination scaremonger Jeni Barnett; I wrote about it here. The Independent carries a series of pictures of medical ephemera of yesteryear on its website in conjunction with the Science Museum’s ‘Brought to Life’ exhibition and website. One of the [...]

If the Indian Premier League comes to the UK, who should I support? # Evidently, the IPL are reading my tweets as they’ve decided to go to South Africa. # RT @FindingAda: New blog post: Ada Lovelace Day: the remarkable Lynne Jolitz http://tinyurl.com/dg6289 #ald09 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

A company called Phorm looks like its going to be used by major internet providers like BT and others to read your web traffic and decide what adverts to give you. This means they will be reading web content from all kinds of people – many of whom won’t even be their customers. If Facebook [...]

Not many people are able to say that they’ve taken out a patent. Lynne Jolitz (homepage) has three (here, here and here, since you asked). But that’s just the start of it. Lynne Jolitz invented 386BSD, an OS also known as Jolix. Aside from the achievement itself, it introduced something we all use in our [...]

An unfortunate mix of lack of sleep and lack of food is befuddling my poor brain… I’m going to have a power nap. # The weather was so nice this morning I put on a summer suit… now the rain is coming down in stair-rods and I’m going to get soaked. # “Growth for the [...]

The Sun appears to be plumbing depths of hypocrisy not seen since the death of Princess Diana over the death of Jade Goody. I was in the depths of Somerset at the time and so the second run of papers hadn’t made it to the village shop. The pre-death editions of just about all the [...]

Facebook is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, the people behind it seem pretty poor at communicating with their members. There have been a series of decisions that have caused ructions – Beacon, the news feed & mini-feed, the new layout and ongoing privacy issues – not necessarily because of the decisions themselves but because of poor [...]