Links and stuff from between March 23rd and March 31st
Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…
- Absences « Back Towards The Locus – 'These stunningly moving photographs are taken from Abscences, an exhibition by the Argentine photographer Gustavo Germano. The scenes are the same in the contrasting photos, but the newer images miss people that appear in the older ones. These young men and women were “disappeared” during Argentina’s Dirty War…'
- "french nuclear success" – Google Search – No web pages containing all your search terms were found.
- Iraq doctor wins scholarship to study foetal abnormalities – Sky News Video Player – Any word from the Cohens, the Aaronovitchs, the Kamms, the Gerases and the Harrys?
- Jeremy Clarkson trapped in a toilet – Clarkson emerges from a Top Gear script meeting…
- BBC NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | Dead girl given truancy warning – 'The school has apologised for the mistake, which they said was down to an error on the computer database.' Fancy that.
- Craig Murray – Terrorist Scare No. 372 Bollocks – 'Listen up everybody. You have more chance of winning first prize in the National Lottery than you have of being killed by a terrorist.'
- Brian Barder – Allow to die, or kill? – 'How starving a man to death can be morally and theologically acceptable, when a quick and painless injection that achieves the same result but spares the patient days in agony is deemed to be ethically wrong, is quite beyond me.'
- John Rentoul – Standing down for one's principles – You know, we've probably all kissed a bit of arse in our times, but the existence of kowtowing courtiers like John Rentoul goes a long way to salving the shame…
- BBC NEWS | Politics | Rights Bill 'sets common values' – Does anyone else get a squeaky bum at the sight of 'Jack Straw' and 'constitutional reform' in the same sentence?
- Andrew Collins: Special tribute issue – When we all loved Jade a little less…
- OK Magazine Jade Goody Tribute – Guess what the edition's number was…
- SUZANNE MOORE: The human heart is on the Left. That is why I had to resign from the New Statesman when I saw what Alastair Campbell did to it – A day to remember – I got a comment published on the Daily Mail website.
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Posted on March 31st, 2009 at 3:06pm under Miscellaneous dross

Google has about 249,000 hits for French+nuclear+success, and 97 for the exact phrase. I see Greenpeace has not lost its penchant for dishonest juvenile posturing.