Here I fire off a few brief opinions on the criminal nature of child pornography(CP), and go on to suggest ways of dealing with it. This has been inspired by some recent discussions about the practice of ISPs blocking alleged illegal contentFirst assertion; the mere act of enjoying CP should not in itself be a criminal matter, to my mind. Yes, it ( Read more... )

This Saturday evening until Sunday morning was a truly remarkable experience. Myself and Mark (my usual insane cycling buddy) took a trip out to Ely, and the whole experience ranged from wonderful to intensely stressful ( Read more... )

It seems that since last I checked, Google Maps have added some more high-detail satellite/aerial imagery of Grimsby and the surrounding area. Grimsby is the town where I grew up (save for the first couple of years of my life that I barely remember), and I've spent a good half-hour reliving some memories ( Read more... )

I don't normally link this kind of thing, in fact, something this mean normally just goes straight to the Best of AJ, but this seems worth sharing with the world as it is in fact SFW. Helps if you've played the early Mario games.

Link here. Warning: May make you cry with laughter and get stared at by your officemate. Or just make you cry.

Today's been a slightly sad day. Myself and nakedtoes were strolling down past the Institute of Astronomy when we noticed what appeared to be a wild rabbit in the road. A lot of them seem to live in and around the Institute, and it's quite a common sight to see them bolting for cover every time you cycle/walk through, but this one was acting very tame as we ( Read more... )

OK, not so mindless, as I received this email myself, along with a bunch of other people in the CL. I can't really comment other than to say that it's ... special.
The message is reproduced here
Same guy - "My mother lived at 24 Scoter Road for decades,but I lost touch with her. Is she still alive??-if not,did she leave me any money in her will?"
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Hope he gets at least a few years behind bars, preferably in solitary confinement. I'm heartened by this kind of thing, glad to see that liberals are working towards a more tolerant society, purging the country of incorrect opinions.

Wait, what ... ?

Blogged without comment (besides ":-O", "OMG" and "epic trollz") -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Child_pornography#This_article_needs_more_pictures

There are at least a million (may not be accurate) political quizzes out there online that will discern your political affiliations from a few yes/no questions ("Do you hate poor people?" "Do you like hard drugs?"), and give you HTML to post on your Livejournal/Facebook/Myspace. This is dull. I'm vaguely aware that I come across as different to ( Read more... )

Had another epic cycling adventure last night, this time with company (Mark). This time, we were mostly touring around the area of the east-west radio telescope track around Comberton. The route was 20 miles overall (error on the pedometer there is down to corner cutting in the plot, looping back on ourselves while getting lost, and adding a few ( Read more... )