This is rather nice: http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page12275.aspRead more... )

I've not posted in a while, so here's a lot of things I want to post all as one entry. You'd hate me if I split it into multiple posts.

Personal
Since the last personal post, I'm significantly happier and far more sorted. I like where this is going.

SmokeThat smoking ban thing passed. My opinions cover both very-pro and very-con, on different ( Read more... )

First there was lolcats. Then there was narwhal_macros. Apparently, lolspiders didn't take off. Inspired by this latest attempt, I wondered what lolmacro genre could be even less appealing. Based on a brief brainstorming among fellow researchers, I present to you ... LOLPAEDOS. I might even macro some of these suggstions up later. These have not been credited, ( Read more... )

Based on conversations with flurble and others, I started thinking about the legality of public nudity. I know that in some situations, you can avoid the threat of police intervention, but not always. So I pondered: what if there was no legal impediment whatsoever to public nudity, and you could casually and spontaneously wander around naked in public? ( Read more... )

On Friday, I'd been off my 40-a-day habit since Wednesday, cold turkey. It's hard to describe the kind of cravings I was feeling, I would have killed for a fag. My head was buzzing, I was irritable, I could barely concentrate. Then the hallucinations started.
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Tried posting this this morning. Twice. But LJ wasn't having any of it (just silently swallowing the post), so let's try again.

It was a pleasure and a privilege to contribute to the storm of wank and public outrage hitting LJ by getting this article posted onto Fark, a slightly weird but very popular news aggregator. I live to serve the cause of ( Read more... )

Testing the theory that LJ is still failing to update my journal with new posts
Edit: apparently not, now I just see if my mysteriously swallowed post turns up at some point. Posts plural likely because, assuming I made a mistake, I tried again. Assume the first one is legitimate.
Edit^2: And no comment notification emails. *wail*

After a bit of practise since the last time, I've learnt to ride a much bigger (and faster) unicycle. While known as a mountain unicycle, there aren't any convenient mountains nearby, so the usual territory will have to do.

Videos:
Simple
Fun

After pondering and discussing congestion/road safety/pollution the other day, I figured it was time to do a poll. Mostly to see who's destroying the rainforest/causing cancer/killing whales. Yeah, I'm curious.
Poll
Feel free to elaborate in comments.

OK, so most of you know I've taken up unicycling. For anyone who doubts, we now have evidence.