Dump the World Wide Web!

Dump the World Wide Web!, says Bill Thompson on openDemocracy.

Late edition to Good Things that happened in 2004

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4112085.stm

The Polymeal

Stick to this diet, reduce your chances of getting cardiovascular disease by more than 75% and increase your life expectancy by 6.6 years. It's true, the BMJ says so.

Shit Things that happened this year:

1) US elections
2) Madrid bombing
3) Iraq war
4) Death of John Peel
5) Russia school massacre
6) Polar ice cap melts
7) Death of John Maynard Smith
8) UKIP

Good Things

1) Mark Thatcher arrested
2) Fitzrovian Tuesday launched

er, any others..

bugger

Rents on one bedroom flats rising faster than other properties.

2004 bad science awards

Again, from the Grauniad.

100 Most Useful Websites

From Guardian online. Weirdly, Fitzrovian isn't included.

It's a Wonderful Life in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies

Another New York Review of Books link

The truth about Muslims

Google to scan famous libraries

Google to scan famous libraries. This sounds good. Has anyone ever tried that 'look inside the book' thing on Amazon.com?

rock and roll circus several minutes on

shit - yoko ono is part of john lennon's supergroup and it's all gone downhill rather rapidly...

Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus 1968

On as I type on BBC 4 - the who have just followed jethro tull and it's all compered by the stones 1968 lineup in a big top. Apparently it's legendary but has never been seen before or something - has anyone else ever heard of this?

More goats for Christmas

I'm getting my grans goats and chickens from Oxfam Unwrapped, since they're both in their late 90s and don't really know who I am anymore.

John - Bis! You pulled that one out of the vault.

This bares out what I was saying in the Fitzroy about the Blair government I think

Blair's rule full of gaffes, spin and control freakery, says mandarin.

I was a bit disappointed to find it wasn't Manda Rin out of Bis making the damning indictment though...

Law to safeguard religion is no joke, warns Blackadder

I could almost forgive him Mr Bean.

heyhey16k

Hold Iraq death probe, Blair told

UK ministers have rejected the Lancet figures but offered no alternative estimate of their own.

Good Gifts

Wonder if my nephews will thank me if I buy a goat for some Africans instead of fighting my way through the wild-eyed desperate Hamleys hordes to get them some overpriced plastic Thunderbirds toy for their Christmas.

One for Tom:

National Secular Society

Fozzy Osbourne

Who says no news is good news?

Kilroy-Silk attacked with slurry

Required reading...

Chris Hedges on war

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