There's a piece by Polly Toynbee in the Grauniad on the whole abortion debate raging atm ( Read more... )

Last weekend was cool. Got way mashed at Rawkus, didn't get to sleep till about 6 in the morning. We both got up at about 10 (damn body clock), and then wandered round a bit, then went to the live zombie game in the evening - which ran until about 7 in the morning... Sleep deprivation makes monstering zombies so much easier ( Read more... )

Was just driving between sites and flicking between radio channels and got this lot playing -

Robin - Heartbeat (album version)
Evanescence - Bring me to Life (album version)
The Hoosiers - Let's dance to joy division
Robin - Heartbeat (single version)
30 seconds to Mars - The Kill

Sometimes channel hopping works...

OMFG - Future Radio just played the original OMD version of Electricity... how cool ( Read more... )

So, NUI (who swallowed our support dept last year) are in the 5hit. Because of having to pay out lots of money due to insurance claims from the flooding, there is a budget shortfall of £26m ( Read more... )

From an article about a senior judge calling for everyone to go on the DNA database ( Read more... )

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. This latest trek carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, but NASA and the Mars Rover science team expect it to provide valuable science ( Read more... )

Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Virginia, is by no means in a remote corner of the country. Close to the CIA headquarters at Langley, it is just a short drive from Washington DC. But headteacher Deborah Hernandez was accused of being out of touch, literally and scholastically, after banning physical contact between her 1,100 pupils ( Read more... )

(From an entertaining rant in the Guardian about being told what to do all the time ( Read more... )

A mayor in the US state of Louisiana says he will sign into law a proposal to make wearing saggy trousers an act of indecent exposure ( Read more... )