I have received a grant from EMBnet to pay for someone to work on one of my mad ideas. If you would like to work with me for a year at the Genome Campus you might want to read this.
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Damian
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Look At Me When I’m Talking
Not making eye contact seems to help children to think.
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Anti-Hate Speech
Why is it a big story in The Guardian when a Saudi Muslim religious leader tells Muslims not to kill Muslims and non-Muslims? Is it because no one reports routine outpourings of hateful rhetoric from Saudi Muslim religious leaders? (“Yeah, dogs bite men every day. So what?”) Is it because Saudi Muslim religious leaders are […]
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Knuckles-To-The-Ground Update
Primates are human, too. Phone masts give you cancer, but sex with a middle-aged guru can cure it.
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Sacrificial Gloat
I am a Simon Hoggart fan and he has covered the Hutton inquiry in a sharp and insightful way. But he is also a political diarist and he knows that his first duty is to get a laugh. He put the boot into Blair this morning so well I had to snigger too.
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Blood for Oil
I think Saddam showed something of a misunderstanding of organic chemistry and renewable energy. The idea that you can take oil out of the ground and replace it with human corpses seems, superficially, to make sense—especially if you can use the extracted oil itself to pay people to let you carry on doing something that […]
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Who Lied?
I’d just like to comment, on behalf of my own party, The Militant Rationalists: “O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” and “Bring me the head of John Humphrys on a stick!” before linking you to this news item. By the way, can anyone see anything a little inappropriate about Michael Howard (Jewish) accusing Tony Blair (conspicuously […]
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Rebel Without The Balls
Commenting on the way Mike Rowe eventually rolled over when instructed by Microsoft‘s attack lawyers to hand over his MikeRoweSoft.com domain, one Farker wrote: “DAMN THE MAN! FIGHT THE POWER! DOWN WITH HUGE CORPORA… ohh an X-Box… never mind”
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Animal Magic
Some of these Photoshop images are as witty as they’re well executed.
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Power Shopping
Books, records, electronics… now with Amazon you can even buy your own presidential candidate.
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Happy Birthday, Sis!
Big brother says many happy returns!
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Let Me Count the Ways
If you’ve got a QuickTime player, you probably visit trailers.apple.com for an occasional fix of gravelly voiceovers and exploding helicopters advertising the latest Hollywood releases. Currently the big genres are still barrel-scraping comic book stories (The Punisher, Alien vs. Predator), unfunny chick flicks (Laws of Attraction, Pieces Of April) and historical epics (The Last Samurai, […]
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Lost in Music
Sorry about the infrequent ‘Blogging. Richard has sent me some vocal-less tracks to write stuff for and I’ve been slaving over a hot music computer for the past few days. We have a track [warning: big download! long intro!] coming out on this compilation album at the end of the month. Hop over there and […]
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Voice of the Dead
Now this is the sort of thing that makes me wish I had a TV. [Thanks to my boss for pointing this out to me just now.]
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It’s a Conspiracy
I am an über-skeptic. (Yes I prefer the American spelling because it’s righter.) So, even though I disagree with most of this article, its logic appeals to me in a deep and disturbing way.
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I Couldn’t Make It Up
[Before you begin reading this item I want to make it clear that I have not invented a single one of the following quotes. Neither are they, to my knowledge, from parody sites.] Adam keeps challenging me to address the Kilroy-Silk question. But what could I possibly contribute to such an elevated debate? After he […]
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Clash of the Pedants
Lynne Truss gets an English lesson.
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D-I-Y
Just before Christmas I had my (excellent) local garage re-connect and re-seat the underdash wiring of my car. The car was in for them to do a more serious repair, so I thought they might as well deal with the bunches of plugs that had become disconnected and were dangling into the passenger footwell. “Simple […]
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Progress
Afghanistan steps out of the 1920s; Nigeria hobbles back into them. Incidentally, those of you frightened by the growing American Empire might want to read Afghanistan’s new constitution to see how the United States will turn the country into a McDonald’s-eatin’, Coke-drinkin’, Jesus-lovin’ facsimile of Texas.
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It’s Oh So Quiet
Don’t forget to tune into Radio 3 on Friday for a live orchestral performance of John Cage’s 4′ 33″, originally composed for piano.
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Michael Crawford
One explanation for his facial metamorphosis was that Michael Jackson wanted to look like Liz Taylor. Simply Girly has figured out the truth.
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Taking Religious Orders
They’re gen-yoo-ine Cistercian monks and they’ll sell you a printer refill. Slashdot (and just about every other online media outlet) draw(s) our attention to the LaserMonks. TwinCities.com has the best punning headline. (I’m sure Leasey and Jonathan would still give the edge to these guys in the wacky monk races.)
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Some Words
The otherwise superb Chambers Dictionary that my parents bought me for Christmas lists the word “affluenza“, but not the word “afflatus“—checked in my Shorter Oxford before I deployed it yesterday. My edition of the Shorter doesn’t list “affluenza” of course. PooterGeek is on the first page of Google hits for the misspelling of “autism” as […]
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Bloody Students
When I was an undergraduate I spent my weekends fending off aggressive winos as I worked behind the counter in an edge-of-Oxford corner shop. A lot of my contemporaries would spend theirs flitting down to London to party with their pals. Ten years after graduation I started to earn enough money to live that kind […]
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Dawk
Adam added a comment to the recent post about Brights (courtesy of Maoi). If Adam likes Dawkins-bashing, he’ll enjoy the on-going feud between Dawkins and ‘Blogging Labour MP Tom Watson. Watson produced a spoof yoof entry in his ‘Blog intended to parody attempts by middle-aged politicians to get “down with the kids”. Dawkins rather sloppily […]
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De-Spammed
You, dear Reader, probably won’t have noticed, but I have been irritated over the past few months by ‘Blog spam. The same people who write to you offering to enlarge your breasts/penis now post fake links to ‘Blogs. They have targeted PooterGeek in the hope of borrowing my legendary Google karma for their own tawdry […]
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Simon Hoggart Nails It
The only thing I miss about the Saturday Guardian is Simon Hoggart’s column. I don’t think he’s very funny when he presents the comedy News Quiz on Radio 4, but he can be hilarious in print. Like many funny people he is also insightful. Today he gets straight to the core of the David Kelly […]
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