This morning, I shaved my beard off.

Time for a change, and all that.

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If you want to know why I've started posting a lot of Angry Blogger Stuff, blame Twitter. I've started following Graham Linehan (of Father Ted and The IT Crowd fame), and he keeps posting links.

Like this one.

Now, call me n unreasonable anti-homeschooling maniac, but I don't entirely see why people are getting so angry with the NSPCC. I haven't read ( Read more... )

More on the Daily Express story.

They've apologised.

More on newspapers.

Edit to add: Daily Mail tells lies shock!

The above two articles came to my attention via Twitter. How very modern!

battle_kitten made a post earlier this week that I never got around to replying to, what with my busy life. Now that I'm having a slack day, I thought I may as well get around to it, especially in light of Certain Recent Events.

The question:

"Do you like to read newspapers/stay updated on current events? How much do you read/how indepth? What topics? ( Read more... )

Life... is busy.

For now, have more Ben Goldacre videos. I've been killing time that would have been better spent asleep on Badscience.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Ben Goldacre of Bad Science talks about Sensationalised Science Reporting from Conrad on Vimeo.

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Ben Goldacre talks about MMR.

Being Human finished on Sunday night; I watched it on the iPlayer last night. It was awesome. After the penultimate episode, I was a little concerned that it was heading in a rather narm-y direction (not that the penultimate episode wasn't great. It just laid on the emotion a bit thick). Thankfully, the final episode was, on the whole, pretty ( Read more... )

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. I was tagged by slytherin_pixie .

( Doctor Who )

Fours weeks in, and I'm really enjoying Being Human. This week's had a bit of unsubtle crap ("EE" was a bit much, "EA" would have been better), but was, by and large, excellent and makes me very interested to see how it all pans out. This series, along with the bastard well brilliant Jekyll from last year, contrasted with the past two seasons of ( Read more... )