Guardian Travel Site

The Guardian have introduced a new travel web site and GU development manager, Nik Silver, has written an interesting article about how it all works. Sounds like it’s full of web 2.0 goodness. Some nice uses of tagging and RSS. I don’t have any inside information, but I suspect that this might be a little… Continue reading Guardian Travel Site

Splogs

Occasionally, I find that articles from this site are misappropriated for use on splogs. It seems, however, that most of my usual subjects are of no interest to sploggers as it has only happened a few times. But yesterday’s post about Cooking Vinyl seems to have both confused and excited the sploggers. This morning, Google’s… Continue reading Splogs

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Comments

Oops. It seems that the update to the latest version of Movable Type broke the commenting on this site. I’m still not sure what happened (it seems to be a problem with the TypeKey integration), but comments are working again now (but only because I’ve removed the requirement for TypeKey authentication). I’ll look at it… Continue reading Comments

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Early Day Motion on Creationism in UK Schools

Following on from yesterday’s piece about “Truth” In Science trying to get their crackpot creationist theories taught in British schools, I see that MP Graham Stringer has tabled an Early Day Motion on this issue. You might consider popping over to WriteToThem and asking your MP to sign this EDM.

When is an MP3 not an MP3?

The BBC has a story about Digital Music Downloading. This is a forthcoming service where if you like a song you hear on digital radio, you’ll be able to buy it immediately. The BBC says this: The service, called Digital Music Downloading, allows listeners to buy any song they hear, with MP3 copies being sent… Continue reading When is an MP3 not an MP3?

Cooking Vinyl Compilations

Probably only of interest to me, but I’ve put together a page which lists all of the Cooking Vinyl compilation albums. As I’ve written before, Cooking Vinyl were the label who really introduced me to world music, and their compilation albums are a great overview of their catalogue. If you’ve got any information to add,… Continue reading Cooking Vinyl Compilations

Rise of Creationism in UK Schools

From the front page of today’s Guardian: Dozens of schools are using creationist teaching materials condemned by the government as “not appropriate to support the science curriculum”, the Guardian has learned. The packs promote the creationist alternative to Darwinian evolution called intelligent design and the group behind them said 59 schools are using the information… Continue reading Rise of Creationism in UK Schools

Torn

I’m probably coming to this very late. I’m sure you’ve all seen it already. A few weeks ago, I recorded the Amnesty International Secret Policeman’s Ball, but I hadn’t got round to watching much of it until last night – when I discovered this. “Torn” is, of course a great song and David Armand‘s interpretation… Continue reading Torn

Upgrading

I’ve updated this blog[1] to the latest version of Movable Type. If you see any glitches that this might have caused, then please let me know. [1] And also Alternative Freak, Battersea MP and the Planet Balham Blog.