Free houses, cars, money, and other stuff

Hurrah! Keep an eye on the obituaries, folks, because should Justin McKeating drop dead tomorrow, or should Bob ‘not as attractive or as intelligent as Billie’ Piper get squished by a militant 4×4 driver at the end of their teather, there will be free houses, cars, money in bank accounts, second hand clothes and other [...]

Do you own a leatherman, sicko?

I know a lot of techies who carry around leatherman or similar multi-purpose tools. They are bloody useful, and have often got me out of a few scrapes. Back at my Unabomber style shack in the country, I often walk around with a knife ~ again, all very useful should some small, fury, yet edible [...]

Best of Blogpower 2007

If you have ever wondered what the Blogpower banner and blogroll that are present in my sidebars is all about, go and have a read of the ‘Best Posts of 2007 by Blogpower Members - Self Chosen’ round up over at the blogpower blog. Naturally, I nominated a rant.

Dodgy donations, BBC bias, etc etc

As far as I can ascertain, this is the situation;
Permatan has failed to declare lots of donations in time, and is thus in breach of the law. He is saying that this is just an admin cock-up, but this doesn’t explain why a dummy think tank was set up for said donations.
Some young whipper snapper [...]

No thanks

I find it hard to put into words how obnoxious I find the ‘presumed consent’ argument. It isn’t that I have any real ethical objections to organ donation, and I would argue passionately against any god botherers or similar types if they tried to have organ replacement / transplant surgery banned. However, for the government [...]