Bill Bailey Thank God for Darwin
Dylan Moran I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.
I’ll confess to being in two minds about WikiLeaks’ latest dumping of classified and secret cables. (if you’ve been hiding under a rock, or in Iraq, you might not know that the site, run by Julien Assange, has placed over 200 000 pieces of communication between American embassies online. These aren’t emails ordering sushi for [...]
If this didn’t betray a deep and disturbing level of homophobia and a major invasion of privacy, it would be funny. Courtesy of the Sunday Pepper – a Ugandan newspaper.
I’m a relative newcomer to the Twitstream. Usually a rapid adopter of new technologies, I’m not sure why it took me so long to get my head around the value of Tweets. I half-heartedly opened an account a few months back, but it has only been in the last week or two that I’ve become [...]
Possibly the most famous newspaper headline blunder was made by the Chicago Tribune of 3 November 3 1948, which bannered “Dewey Defeats Truman”. When the decision to print the paper was made, returns from the US election were coming in very slowly and time was running out before the deadline for the edition. The Tribune [...]
So it is the evening after election day. Like millions of others, I am curious about the results – having queued at Home Affairs for three hours to get a temporary ID, then another two hours at the polling station to actually make my mark, I feel sort of part and parcel of the process. [...]
