It's been month's since I last posted in an attempt to lessen the distractions to my phd - the results have been um... variable at best. Anyhow I found this article and felt the need to share it teacher sues school because her students ask too many "subversive" questions.
Anyway I'm back off to work on something that has only suspect access to the ( Read more... )

While still on my lunchbreak... Might have had this conversation with people before but been thinking recently how memes really don't mimic the behaviour of genes all that well in my opinion ( Read more... )

Felt compelled to break my lj silence to bring this to people's attention: a hilariously inappropriate cosmetics range from singapore, brings the catholocism WOW campaign to mind.
Works coming along in leaps and.. erm stumbles rather than bounds but tis the nature of the beast alas.
I'll see anyone who's going to wendyhouse there.

It's been a while since I could be arsed to post anything, mainly because nothing interesting has been happening to me at the moment. This is only likely to get worse til the end of october as well as considerably less socialising possibly to the point where I become eligible for hermit status but don't worry I'm not dead in a ditch I'm just ( Read more... )

This is just so wrong - apparently beaming sound waves inside your cranium is less intrusive compared to a loudspeaker. I had a dream once where corporations had copyrighted the actual language included in their logos and adverts and scanned the brains of citizens so they could charge them royalties for using "their property" in everyday speak so ( Read more... )

short answer is, I wouldn't get anything done. So insomnia is reigning in David's world but hey more hours in the day to get the job done and it is getting steadily closer to the finish - 2 chapters almost complete, 1 started and the content for the others is rolling in and for once experiments are working (finally ( Read more... )

God bless America!
In other news I've written 4,000 words of my thesis and am steadily panicking more and more about having less than a year to go, while partly pleased I can finally escape York I am also terrified as I can't delay the real world with more education much longer...

I'd be more than happy to help save the world, one barbecued marsupial at a time.

Someone's bred a strain of tiny pigs and not a moment too soon! The world has been clamouring for smaller pigs since time immemorial, wars have been fought and great atrocities committed due to the lack of pigs which you could fit in a handbag like those horrid rat-dog-hybrid things. Now not everyone understands how to fully utilise tiny pigs to ( Read more... )

and it's just another form of racism... Brass eye is a work of genius and now I'm off to put on my pair of "trust me" trousers!