There's a story making the rounds over here that since Nick Griffin made an appearance on Question Time, a YouGov poll has shown that 22% of people polled would 'seriously consider' voting for the BNP. Over half of those responding said they thought the BNP had a point in standing up for the rights of indigenous white people in the UK. 3% said they ( Read more... )

Iceland elects a lesbian Prime Minister. People in Iceland are apparently slightly bewildered that anyone cares about their PM's sexuality, which somehow makes it all a little bit more awesome.

AJ

As you may or may not know or care, nearly forty years ago (27th July 1967) homosexual acts were decriminalised in the UK. Channel 4 is showing a series of programs to mark this anniversary, and this week's RT has a brief article looking back at portrayal of homosexual characters in television drama. Some bloke called Russell T Davies, who I ( Read more... )

God is all-powerful with infinite mercy, but his aim is a bit crap apparently.

*sniggers*

ETA: Oh, this is a bit of old news, but you could make a fortune in Iraq if you're an importer of giant spoons.

Charlie

( All I'm saying on the Freema rumours )

It is with great regret that I share with you the sad news that, after fifty years of being a truly inspirational figure in popular astronomy, Sir Patrick Moore is finally showing signs of senile dementia. I think we should all take a solemn moment to reflect on the inevitability of the ravages of time, that mean even great men end up a bit dotty. ( Read more... )

Independent article courtesy of Bad Science,
The original Nasa data was very wiggly-lined and we wanted the simplest line we could find

Pi day. Have a happy one.

Just in case anyone got confused, Charlie and me decided to rename our account, which we've been planning to do for a while. So, yeah. New username is a long story and you probably had to be there.

Oh, and first it was rubbish daytime telly and all that making with the rigged phone competitions, but this really takes the ( Read more... )

( In which I briefly make daft comments about the Crufts final )

I needed to title this with something other than 'listen very carefully, I shall say this only once'. But anyway, ze airmen are idden in ze back passage with ze painting of ze fallen madonna with ze big boobies. Oh Michelle ( Read more... )