Bad things have been happening for the past week, coming to somewhat of a head today. Thats by-the-by, I'm sure there are people who will tell you the gory details if you ask ( Read more... )

I'm not sure should I be horrified at my levels of knowledge about the Sisters, or to bask in the knowledge that this quiz was really quite tricksy and yet I got 20 out of 20 first time...

The Ultimate Sisters of Mercy Quiz

The Shakespeare jokes were inevitable, but at least they were still funny and in keeping with the ideas we have today of who Skakespeare was... The witches thing was worked very nicely into the idea of MacBeth being written in the near future as well. Apart from the one niggle I really did like it ( Read more... )

Convictions (not the criminal kind!) are kind of like rules that are built into us by society and our upbringings. Some we have no direct evidence whether they're true or not: Say for example that the Earth is a spheroid. These we take on faith, possibly due to everyone else on the planet believing it true also. Sometimes we do get evidence to ( Read more... )

This could well get fairly long...

So when is it reasonable to talk about things others wish to keep private?"
Not so very long ago I arrived at a conclusion about the value of a particular kind of truth. It was: A truth that serves no purpose but to hurt someone is valueless.

I'm going to talk about an applied sub-case of this, and the morality of ( Read more... )

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Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse...

The Sarah-Jane Adventures are on replayTV thingi. I groaned aloud when she used a lipstick to open a door. And groaned in abject despair when she called it a sonic lipstick.

RTD, what have you done??

( Doctor Who Spoilers Within. )

After a very brief look at the Doctor Who homepage, and taking at least one previous offence of committing the Runaway Bride into account, I can only surmise that someone bought RTD some books. I can even possibly name them ( Read more... )

Hmmm...Twitch...Twitch ( Read more... )