I spotted this article headline over the BBC ticker this morning. Following recent discussions on IRC and elsewhere about innumeracy in BBC reporting and misleading reporting using graphs my eye was drawn to this headline with its unqualified assertion about family food spending. Before loading the article I had visions of some kind of ( Read more... )

Just a reminder that because the UK police have caught some people that they suspect of planning to implement explosions on planes we are now at a CRITICAL "terror threat level".

This means that we are required to be CRITICAL of anything relating to the "terror threat".

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4306656.stm

I'm still not afraid, even though armed plainclothed police are shooting people who aren't terrorists on my nation's mass-transit system.

Angry, defensive, paranoid; but not afraid.

Schneier on bag searches in NY subways.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

- oft attributed to Benjamin Franklin

I wrote something similar to this in /. earlier, but I think it bears better distribution ( Read more... )

If anyone's worrying, angelofthenorth and slakko are both safe.

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