A little while ago I was playing happily with Ubuntu on an old laptop. With a new job, I’ve been obliged to spend more time on a Vista/.NET platform. Helen’s just bought a new Vista laptop so I’ll be using her old one to install Ubuntu again.
And can I just say that £400,000 is a reasonable cost for a medium sized team of people for a year doing skilled work.
Tom Coates defends the London Olympics logo
This remark is irrefutable, isn’t it?
Of course, it begs the question as to whether in fact the team was sufficiently small, doesn’t define what medium means in this context, whether a team of any size larger than one person should have been necessary to produce a logoand Coates doesn’t attempt to argue that the work done was, in fact, skilled.
Apart from that it’s a useful contribution to the debate. Almost half a million pounds’ worth, don’t you think?
A good walk ruined is how Mark Twain described golf and my only disagreement, I think, is how good the walk would have been on flat fairways and greens, being chivvied along by people behind you, with the prospect ahead of a drink at the clubhouse with bores you’d usually cross the street to avoid.
A few years back the US Open championship website won an award, I think. And this year? Not so good.
The remains of a 3,000lb (1,400kg) bird from the Late Cretaceous - about 85 million years ago - have been discovered in China. It’s unknown whether the bird could roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw or ride a unicycle
The Iraq War; the existence of God; should you put the milk in first: these are all things about which reasonable people might disagree. But you simply cannot have a discussion with someone who believes that imprisoning someone for ten years is a suitable response to a teenager getting a blowjob.
Harry Hutton, Peach State Taliban
Mr Wizard - Don Herbert - has died at the age of 89. He taught elementary science and the show ran very successfully for 14 years. We don’t really have an equivalent in the UK of the children’s TV science educator.
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After Geldof and Bono blasted the G8 for betraying Africa, the multi-millionaires pledged their wealth to the starving poor of the troubled continent.
Dismissing their musical projects as trivial in the face of such tragedy and suffering, and accepting the lead given by Bill Gates of Microsoft, they agreed to put aside their rock-star lifestyles and donate their entire and consderable personal fortunes to Africa.
Over at Wellington Gray the near-complete infantilisation of Physics education in Britain is described.
The strip was entitled “the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats” and featured the exploits of one Meowlin Q. Kitteh (a sort of cat hobo-raconteur) and his young hapless kitten friend, Pip. The strip did not last long due to a run-in my great-grandfather had with none other than William Randolph Hearst.
Apelad on Flickr. Genius.
