With thanks to layah for this one:

Your Famous Last Words Will Be:
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The Register article here
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics Consultation here (there's also a link from the Register article ( Read more... )

I just thought I'd write about this even though it's old news by now... but it struck me that the government wanting Universities to spy on "asian looking" people is slightly surreal... I mean surely that means that they want Universities to spy on _everyone_? Or has the government been bitten by it's own push for being entirely PC about ( Read more... )

One of today's comics that I read was in some way (though I can't quite work out how) appropriate to my mood today...

See the comic here

( Why don't I turn off the internet and do something more interesting instead? )

Two rules ( Read more... )

...an article I read recently claimed (with some survey results to "prove" it) that Central America is the happiest subcontinent on Earth (intriguingly they found a link between happiness and longevity - the happier a nation is the higher their life expectancy, in general. Makes me think about the elf thing, they are immortal except that if they ( Read more... )

( Yes, I do have more boring stuff to do instead! ;) )

I know my LJ can be a little... interesting at times but I have to say that this comic sums up my view on these things rather well, or rather doesn't so much sum it up as explain in detail!!! :)

And yes, I know it isn't very artistic but although having only just been introduced to this comic series I already find it fascinating and this is ( Read more... )

( Zippedy doo daa... )