The name fits Charles Johnson as well as it did Heath. He’s just name-calling now: It’s looking like right wing tea party candidate Scott Brown will ride to victory on a wave of Fox News-fueled populist anger
Of alleged media bias: Perhaps the best news for Brown, however, is the media’s insistence in reporting that the race is “neck-and-neck,” “too close to call,” “very tight race,” etc. In fact, most polls indicate a growing Brown lead. The … Continue reading
I was in Covent Garden once when a man placed a ghetto blaster on a nearby table, turned it on and started to sing. A woman appeared above, at the railings, and they performed a duet. It was wonderful and … Continue reading
They’re voting today. Polling website FiveThirtyEight.com – which scored well during the Presidential election – is rating Brown as 3:1 favourite.
From Nasa: the fault line and the aftermath, from space.
‘After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea, under the shade of some apple trees… he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into … Continue reading
Phil Plait, who writes the Bad Astronomy blog and has just stepped down as President of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), recently linked to this account of an unusual teaching technique: What made Dr. K memorable was a gimmick … Continue reading
Anyone running mainstream CRM websites has got used to the attacks by “Turkish hackers”, which usually exploit well-known vulnerabilities in CRM engines like Joomla and Drupal. The Jewish Chronicle site was hacked yesterday by “Turkish hackers” – the quote marks … Continue reading
The Islamic Solidarity Games have been cancelled after a dispute between Arab countries and Iran over the name of the waterway dividing them
One of the great British guitarists died a few days ago. Mick Green played with Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, then the Pirates after Kidd died. Wilko Johnson always acknowledged the influence of Green’s playing. Here’s the Pirates with Lonesome … Continue reading