Archive for January, 2010

 

EasyCouncil in the snow

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

As we all know, the London Borough of Barnet has dubbed itself ‘easyCouncil’ after taking a leaf out of budget airlines’ book and providing a very basic service as standard and charging for all manner of extras. Let us look at another budget airline, as reported in the London Evening Standard, as it copes with [...]

 

River of Gilligan's dreams

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Andrew Gilligan has an interesting article in today’s London Evening Standard, trailing a PolEx report that won’t be available until tomorrow, suggesting that a highly effective boat service could be set up for £30m. I will look for the report tomorrow, but in the meantime I make three points. Firstly, Gilligan says Yet this would [...]

 

Pod Delusion New Year's Awards

Monday, January 4th, 2010
 

Obama hanged in effigy

Monday, January 4th, 2010

BBC News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution report that an effigy of Obama has been hung in Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains, GA (although both look like AP wire feeds). I am entirely sure that the great majority of people in the US are going to be outraged at the action. I am, though, going to [...]

 

Thunderf00t interviews Richard Dawkins

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

One of my favourite YouTubers goes by the handle of Thunderf00t and he has uploaded an interview he did with Richard Dawkins. I also recommend Thunderf00t’s excellent and amusing series, ‘Why do people laugh at creationists?‘ and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is also on YouTube. xD.

 

Predictions for MMIX in review and predictions for MMX

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Just over a year ago, I posted some predictions for MMIX. They were, with results, There will be an attempt to ‘test’ Obama militarily within his first year of office Not as I expected There will not be a General Election in the UK Correct There will not be a go-ahead for the third runway [...]

 

Psychic predictions for MMIX and MMX

Friday, January 1st, 2010

In 2008, the Psychics and Mediums Network posted some predictions for 2009. There will be an assassination attempt on Barack Obama (UPDATE: Looks like this one may have happened before the 2009 date predicted. There was a neo-nazi assaination plot foiled on 27th October 2008. Note that these predictions were posted on the 9th October [...]