A few weeks ago I experienced homophobia directed at me for the first time. This made me realise that I want to take more responsibility for my visibility as a queer person, and since it's Pride here in Brighton today it seems like a good day to start. (I watched the parade earlier, which was tremendous fun as always, but now it's pissing it down ( Read more... )

Today I accidentally typed the word "funfortunately."

In an amazing example of life imitating Star Trek they've actually created transparent aluminum. Unfortunately it has two main drawbacks that will likely prevent it from being used in whale enclosures in the near future:

1. It's only transparent to X-rays, and
2. A few nano-seconds after you create it, it explodes.

Brilliant.

This is what our country is becoming:

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Police using over the top tactics illegally against people who try to photograph them has been a recurring theme recently, but this video shows such an event in more detail than I've seen before. I haven't felt this angry in a long time.

I'm not quite sure what happened there. My best guess is that my phone managed to post that by itself while in my pocket.

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Google Street View has come to the UK. Brighton isn't on it, but Norwich is, and so is Leeds, where I went to Uni. I've just spent the last 10 minutes or so zooming along Woodhouse Lane, past Leeds Uni and up to where I used to live. Bloody bizarre experience. Mostly consisting of thinking "wow, I'd completely forgotten that random thing that ( Read more... )

Overslept last night but had an awesomely inventive dream in the process. ( Last night's dream )

This is just a quick test post from my GPhone...

Well, I thought that was about right, really. Quite pleasantly surprised. I think it helped that I read the comic last week, though, otherwise I might have been quite confused by a lot of it. The film includes almost all of the sub-plots and back-story that's in the comic so there's a lot to keep track of while watching it. It's certainly the ( Read more... )