Archive for the 'From the web' Category

 

'On what planet do you spend most of your time?'

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Barney Frank FTW. xD.

 

#welovetheNHS

Friday, August 14th, 2009

I wonder if Dan Hannan’s posturing over the NHS might end up being the Tories’ undoing. The #welovetheNHS hashtag on Twitter and equivalents on other social media thingummies suggest not only that the NHS, for all its problems, is popular but also that the NHS forms part of our national identity. I know that this [...]

 

Gordon at TED

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Yes, I’m biased towards Labour, but the boy done good. H/T The Wardman Wire. xD.

 

The Montana Meth Project

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

I’m sure a lot of people saw the Louis Theroux programme on the problems of meth addiction in Fresno, CA. Following on from that, it seems worthwhile to point out the Montana Meth Project, a very hard-hitting series of advertisements that started as a privately funded initiative, only in Montana, but has since become publicly [...]

 

Facebook are being idiots again

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission. Click on “Settings” up at the top where you see the “Logout” link. Select “Privacy”. Then select “News Feed and Wall”. Next, select the tab that reads “Facebook Ads”. In the drop down box, select “No One”. Then save your [...]

 

Silly week

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

From the Man in a Shed, via James Higham: OK some sort of guidelines were asked for so here goes: For the whole of the week 27th July participants will mostly issue daft and silly posts. ( Moon made of cheese type stuff – or even some genuine left wing moonbattery that may be true [...]

 

Dave on Al Jazeera – YouTube

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

How’d I do? I should add thanks to Aaron & Sunny at Liberal Conspiracy for passing on Al J’s request. xD.

 

Fun with Wolfram Alpha

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Let’s ask about the airspeed of an unladen swallow. Assuming estimated average cruising airspeed of an unladen African swallow | Use estimated average cruising airspeed of an unladen European swallow instead Yes, that makes sense. Input interpretation: So far, so good. Result: Ba-dum. Why did the chicken cross the road? Result: to get to the [...]

 

Spot the Difference

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Hilariously, the BNP are auctioning off “a beautifully hand drawn, sign and framed picture of British National Party Chairman, Nick Griffin”. Even more hilarious is the picture – a beatific-looking Griffin in front of the Union Flag. Can anybody else find a picture of someone looking like a beatific, would-be father of the nation in [...]

 

Phishing attack on Facebook

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

A phishing attack is underway against Facebook. Messages are being sent on Facebook with the subject ‘Look at this’ and then a link to fbstarter.com, kromked.net and fbaction.net (and entirely possibly other websites) which have been set up to look like a log-in page for Facebook. As ever, if you think you may have put [...]