Never believe anything a television producer tells you. UPDATE: PooterGeek sinks to a new low. For those of you who want a picture of the (wo)man in question go here and for those of you who want to test your own powers of sexual discrimination go here
Read MoreDriving in to work along open, tree-lined country roads this week I’ve felt like one of those square-jawed “executives” in a car advertisement. Around here the countryside rolls like a piece of slate, but the flatness doesn’t make the local villages any less attractive than the traditional English postcard model. Every tree seems to be […]
Read MoreWhat next? Female scientists?
Read MoreDavid Deutsch, the computational physicist, and others argue that we should take children more seriously. The Paper is a publication that does just that. It is written by 10–18-year-olds under the supervision of professional journalists. Some of the results of this publishing experiment explain why we David and friends have such difficulty persuading the World […]
Read MoreTwo religious items caught my ear on the Today Programme this morning. The first: a Muslim activist has won a case to have the crucifix removed from the Italian public (state) school his children attend. He is happy. Other Muslims are not. Neither are many Italians. The second: Thought for the Day, the programme’s “God […]
Read MoreIt’s not often I find myself praising Oxford University but fellow graduate Judith has just drawn my attention to the latest public pronouncement of our alma mater and I find myself smiling.
Read MoreI hope you’ve got RealPlayer for this, though the transcript adds an extra dimension of unintentional amusement. Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein go head-to-head in one of the most hilarious academic clashes ever committed to tape. Thanks to Wiqqi.
Read MoreThis used to be today’s page of PooterGeek, Damian Counsell’s Web journal. It isn’t now, but might be again in about a year’s time (2005?). Please feel free to browse the archives.
Read MoreYesterday I transferred from MPhil to PhD status at the Institute of Cancer Research, where I have been registered as a part-time PhD student since Michael Jackson was black. (I would love to be able to tell the story of my viva, but can’t.) One mad year of frenzied experimenting and writing from today I […]
Read MoreYou will not be surprised to read that I was into Dungeons and Dragons when I was at school. This Macromedia Flash film begins with a joke about D&D being the gateway to Satanism and then turns into such an accurate recreation of a typical game that I recommend you simply pass it by—unless you […]
Read MorePeople who kill deliberately innocent people to frighten other innocent people are terrorists. And even the French are beginning to understand.
Read MoreI am not a fan of Ronald Reagan, the man who accidentally saved the World from communism, while contributing to the deaths of thousands in Nicaragua and to a hugely unpleasant recession in the United States. The unpleasantness of the latter was magnified by our having to listen to British rock critics wank on about […]
Read MoreAgain, thanks to Maoi. Have a smile at Engrish.com.
Read MoreCourtesy of Maoi, another man who dresses up for a living gives the United States advice on how to conduct itself in the World and earns more column inches than most full-time scholars of international relations, just like this guy whose drivellings Judith drew my attention to last week. (This latter article is offset nicely […]
Read MoreSomeone called Demir Baser kindly emailed a bioinformatics mailing list at work over the weekend to let us poor scientists know that Darwin was wrong because Harun Yahya says so. Thanks, Harun. I can’t wait to read your other “works on Zionism and Freemasonry and their negative effects on world history and politics”. We misguided […]
Read MoreEr, thanks for this, Maoi.
Read MoreThis week, a friend of my office mate Jo was involved in an expensive and unpleasant four-car, low-speed pileup. This happened when the driver of the frontmost car braked suddenly to avoid running over a squirrel. (The reason there is no photo link attached to the name of this new character in the PooterGeek soap […]
Read MoreScroll down this page to see the new, sexy flat-panel speakers, available for your home cinema this month.
Read MoreThis year more Americans wanted to watch tall black people bounce a ball than wanted to watch short blonde people snog.
Read MoreThe Telegraph had the best Alastair Campbell “obituary” article I’ve read so far.
Read MoreI normally avoid linking to links from the ‘Blog Instapundit because you’ve already seen them, right? But this is an outstanding piece by anti-war writer Geoffrey Wheatcroft.
Read MoreAt the fancy-dress party, Damian, fancying himself somewhat in his sharply pressed, collarless Dr. Evil suit, asks one of the other guests if she’d be interested in, er, maybe, going for a drink some time. Her response isn’t entirely positive, but he can tell she is just playing hard-to-get from her body language. Update: for […]
Read MoreI often have days like this.
Read MoreAfter a rant about the FBI’s comedy-cop indictment of a teenage cracker, this page includes an intriguing item about the Dalai Lama. Apparently someone tried to use his Holiness’s image to sell software and “his people” objected. The Dalai Lama has “people“? “Yeah, John Paul II’s people and the Dalai’s people got together and it […]
Read MoreLast time I was interviewing candidates for a job I had my “girl compensator” turned up quite high. In The Telegraph today Anne Robinson explains what I mean. [Free registration required, value of shares can go down as well as up, please pay attention to the pre-flight safety demonstration, your home is at risk if […]
Read MoreOkay, all the worthy world affairs stuff is getting boring now, I know. Here’s some unworthy stuff about Iraq. Bonkers Iraqi parents name son after George Bush. British Spin has those missing Hutton Inquiry emails in full.
Read MoreCheck this surreal phenomenon out before the Powers That Be fix it! If you search the BBC’s News site for “Arafat“, the first link you pull up takes you to a potted biography of Lemony Sicket, mysterious children’s author. It’s another Giant Lizard conspiracy, I tell you. The rest of this entry is second-hand ‘Blogging […]
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