I’ve posted some (blurred as usual) pictures of some vintage computer gaming equipment taken while on a recent visit to London’s Science Museum for the excellent Game On exhibition of the history, technology and culture of computer games. If you’re into old computer gear (and hey, who isn’t?) it’s worth a visit if you get [...]
In the UK, when you text a fixed line phone, such as one in a home, from a mobile the text message is turned into a voice message read by a robot. Until today (January the 7th 2007), in aid of the housing charity Shelter, Tom Baker has been providing the voice for this robot, [...]
There’s quite a good posting on slugger o’toole today, in relation to the activities (or lack thereof) of the the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Council’s two-day conference, Building a Human Rights Culture in Northern Ireland, starts today. The NIHRC says its role is “to ensure that the human rights [...]
Lucozade Bombers Defeated For Now So they tried to bomb us again. Even worse – they are us! Have no fear though. Days before we decided to try to bomb us again UK Home Secretary, John “Resin” Reid announced the Government’s latest cunning plan to thwart those who wish to curtail our freedoms. The Government [...]
Do you travel in a confined space every morning and evening? Are you fed up with having people shoving their armpits into your face, or coming up to you and demanding change while playing some god-awful oasis song over and over (and over) again? Or maybe they are just banging into you every single time [...]
Although not being reported in the mainstream media yet, it seems that the ill conceived ID Card and Database plans for the UK have been scrapped. Not a moment too soon, although many people may not have had to get them anyway, such as Irish people living in the UK.
This can be “FND” on the wall of a local church in Leytonstone. At the bottom of the poster there is the cryptic suggestion that it is possible to chat with God, via text messaging and at no connection charge. Well, who knew.
It all started when an unemployed British sysadmin decided he wanted to get to the bottom of the whole UFO phenomenon, and find out whether strange craft sighted over UK skies for many years were in reality experimental military aircraft belonging to the United States military. Gary McKinnon would get smoked up, fire up a [...]
For sale in walthamstow! I wouldn’t be seen dead in it.
The Campaign to Make Votes Count in the uk trundles on, and while some in the labour government still insist there is no need to change a system where around 30% of the vote means over 50% representation in parliament some within the party are starting to realise that the system that punished them in [...]