I came across the following quote today whilst randomly clicking around the net and immediately thought of the Central Office of Information who were in the news this week after announcing a few cuts in staff numbers. Think of the press as a great keyboard on which...
The future recession.
From ZeroHedge, a very interesting article by Raoul Pal looking at the supposed recovery in world finances and how it looks very much like a depression that can only head deeper. The interesting quote for me is the following bit on the UK : I have noticed that since...
Improvised Explosive Devices
The following amazing video spotted over at ZeroHedge shows in animated form all the Improvised Explosive Devices that have gone off in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2009. The data comes from the vast array of documents recently made available by wikileaks. Whilst it...
Photomanipulation
Spotted in a BBC article on modern photomanipulation, THIS website has a very interesting set of examples of photomanipulation through the ages. I am particularly impressed with the changes made to older photographs, long before the computer age made it a mouse and...
Tax credits and legalised theft.
I came across an article on the BBC website today that made me wonder which lunatic invented the rules relating to the tax credit system. For a start, the current system is that people estimate their income for the next 12 months and are then paid credits based on...
Split crotch panties!
Trawling around the blogosphere on a slow Saturday evening brings the occasional wtf and slow smile : Ironically, however, recent archaeological research at the site of the battle has proved conclusively that the Battle of Hastings was the first battle in recorded...
The tadpoles are laughing at us Maureen.
And so it came to pass that I discovered Little Frigging in the Wold : The tadpoles are laughing at us, Maureen, and the large unwieldy device you used to organise the arrangement of our store of pickled onions lies slowly rusting at the back of the garage. What has...
Public service – Russian style.
While the UK has to put up with an army of train managers (or whatever their title is nowadays) who will do whatever they can to avoid doing what they are paid for, the Russian seem to have a rather different attitude as in this little tale from Pravda : A court in...
Scottish trampoline wanker found guilty.
Not very often you can write a title like that but thanks to the BBC we have the following tale giving much needed amusement as well as some un-necessary mental images : A man caught jumping up and down naked on a trampoline has avoided a jail sentence. James Burden,...
And you thought the UK has a Quango problem.
For all the mutterings from vested interests in the news here about quangos and how their dismantling would be disastrous (this one, for example, comparing the UK Film Council to the NHS) you need only look at the US and the size of their quangocracy to see we are not...