Links and stuff from between April 30th and May 6th
Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…
- BREAKING NEWS: Finland’s under-construction OL3 reactor ‘without a proper design that meets the basic principles of nuclear safety’ – In which we discover that after four years of construction on the world's biggest nuclear reactor, the designs for the safety systems have yet to be seen.
- AC Grayling: Precious liberty – 'As civil liberties come under ever greater pressure, it's time we exposed the old lie that says the innocent have nothing to fear'
- Warren Ellis: 'I plan to invest in anti-carnivorous robot security' – 'I’m not putting my dadpaste dispenser anywhere near a set of robot arms that might be neurally connected to some mangy chimp who’s become unhinged by the failure of his food-dispenser button and fancies going all Roddy McDowall in protest.'
- Ministers dropped Vioxx protest after lobbying from US drug firm – God bless the servants of the people…
- A GUIDE TO THE PEOPLE YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT IN LABOUR'S CIVIL WAR – The Daily Mash – 'If it looks like a junior salesman and sounds like a junior salesman, you call it what it is.'
- FactCheck: Brown's Gurkha boast – Channel 4 News – More from the Ministry of Making Shit Up…
- Blood & Treasure: if you gaze hard enough into your navel you can see your younger self looking back – 'Note to the 52 year old Stephen Fry: oh, stop it man.'
- Corporate Anti Hero – The lady doth protest too much? – 'Condoleezza Rice got asked some decent questions by a law student and didn't aquit herself well.'
- The Curmudgeon: Almost A Fairly Proud Day For Democracy – '…a sense of pleasant surprise that a narrow majority got it right this time is probably in order.'
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Posted on May 6th, 2009 at 2:47pm under Miscellaneous dross
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Apparently Joanna Lumley has now met with Gordon and thinks he will do the right thing by the end of the month. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to her that he might have been playing the same dirty trick Susan Sarandon tried to play on Team America World Police, and acting.
I hope she counted her rings after shaking his hand.