I thought that last week’s episode of Torchwood was a bit better than the first two, but with this week’s episode, Cyberwoman, the quality plunged again. The pitch probably went something like this: “We’ll have an attractive young woman wandering around with Cyberman technology covering as little of her body as we can get away… Continue reading Torchwood – Cyberwoman
Author: Dave Cross
Ridiculous
Did I miss a memo about English spelling reform? More and more people seem to be spelling ridiculous as “rediculous”. Have they all been infected by the same typo? Or is it some street-talk that I’m unacquainted with?
Too Clever By Half
I’ve just noticed that Firefox 2.0 is a bit too clever for its own good. It’s the new RSS autosubscription feature that’s the problem. It’s great that when I click on an RSS feed, it gives me the chance to subscribe to that feed in Bloglines. But it insists on doing that whenever I try… Continue reading Too Clever By Half
Compare and Contrast
From the Amazon.com page for the book Google Analytics by Mary E. Tyler and Jerri Ledford “…very useful.” (dave.org.uk, October 2006) Which is extracted somewhat carefully from the review I wrote In summary, the descriptions of the Google Analytics reports are very useful if you can ignore the over-familiar language, but the sections that contain… Continue reading Compare and Contrast
Subverting Language
This idea of calling “faith” schools, superstition schools is a really good one. And you can take it further and substitute “superstition” for many other uses of the word “faith. For example, I just read a news report that mentioned David Kuo who is apparently the “Deputy Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community… Continue reading Subverting Language
Ted Haggard
If you watched Richard Dawkins’ documentary The Root of All Evil? earlier this year, you will remember Ted Haggard. He’s the sickeningly smarmy evangelical priest who threw Dawkins out of his church for calling his congregation animals (when actually all Dawkins had done was to tell him that evolution was true). Well, it seems that… Continue reading Ted Haggard
Science or Superstition?
Tony Blair apparently thinks that we should be encouraging more young people to become scientists. Well, maybe he should stop trying to send them to superstition schools.
NaNoWriMo
Bugger. It’s already November 3rd and I’ve completely forgotten about NaNoWriMo. It’s been a few years since I tried it (and failed) and I was intending to have another got this year. It’s too late though. I could probabyl catch up over the weekend, but this is going to be a busy month and there’s… Continue reading NaNoWriMo
Daily Mail Outrage
I do love a nice bit of Daily Mail outrage. And this one is too good to miss. They’ve got all over-excited about Monday’s episode of Spooks which featured a group of christian extremists who were killing muslims. Given the number of episodes where MI5 have been foiling Muslim plots, this one seemed to be… Continue reading Daily Mail Outrage
Superstition Schools
Muriel Gray talks a lot of sense on “faith” schools. Let’s stop describing these tax-funded establishments as faith schools. They are superstition schools, for that is what they teach. Alongside hard facts, innocent children are hoodwinked into accepting as real the mythology of virgin births, gods who regard women with bare heads as wicked harlots,… Continue reading Superstition Schools