A snippet from The Guardian, 10 August, written by Emily Wilson:

Last week, George Bush said that intelligent design (the theory that the world was created around 6,000 years ago by some sort of divine overload) should be taught alongside Darwinism in American classrooms, to give kids "both sides of the debate". But why stop there? As Joe ( Read more... )

...but not if they spend their time building this device.

Thanks (I think) to Popbitch.

Your Brain's Pattern
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A bit of good news: I've been asked to conduct an on-stage interview with Tony Earnshaw, author of Beating the Devil: The Making of Night of the Demon, after a screening of the 1950s classic at Wolverhampton's Light House Media Centre on 31 October (apt). They haven't actually raised the matter of the fee yet, but Tony says he's just received a ( Read more... )

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8:30am. The engineer has removed my original meter and placed a new one in the hallway ( Read more... )

After a two-day break, Scott Road is once again full of gas engineers. Despite having told them I'd be in all morning, the chap sent to replace my gas meter turned up just after 8am ("We want to catch people when they're in"), which would have been bloody irritating had I not had to get Ann to work by 7am.
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Received our quarterly gas bill today. Given it covers use of the lounge fire during the hottest part of the year, wasn't surprised to see the total was just £4.00. Now, I can reduce that by 49p if I pay within the next week, but it'll cost at least 21p in postage, plus the envelope. *sigh*