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Brilliant composition in this photograph with the lady on the seat giving just a glance out of the corner of her eye to Superman walking past her.

Labels: comics, photography

MOO Sticker books.

I might just have to create a sticker book from my Flickr photostream.

Labels: cool, photography

Copyright rights, unregulated uses, and fair use is kid's stuff



Lawyer Erik J. Heels explained copyright law to his friend's daughter using the above drawing. [via]

Nice simple breakdown of copyright in my opinion.

Labels: copyright

a hands on approach to the military

Labels: humour

This is how I'd like to remember our Caleb. Enjoying himself as the master of his domain ensuring that should any rogue sticks invade his kingdom that they get chewed to pieces.

Labels: My life

Have just finished Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and I have to say that once you get past the science bit (and Brown has clearly researched the science but has utterly failed to understand it) there is a half-decent plot albeit with a rather obvious twist in the end.

It's better plotted than The Da Vinci Code as it does actually build to a climax rather than a series of anti-climatic cliffhangers.

The characters are as poorly sketched as they were in The Da Vinci Code though and are little more than stereotypes.

Labels: books, science

I got a phone call from my stepdad this morning to tell me that Caleb died yesterday evening. I'm heartbroken and speechless right now.

I fucking loved him and he was the best fucking dog I ever knew.

Labels: My life

It's the crazy central device of the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind made real. The Telegraph reports that scientists have found a drug that is able to help banish bad memories.

Researchers have found they can use drugs to wipe away single, specific memories while leaving other memories intact. By injecting an amnesia drug at the right time, when a subject was recalling a particular thought, neuro-scientists discovered they could disrupt the way the memory is stored and even make it disappear.

Ironically I think I've blogged about this before but I can't really remember if I have or not. It seems to me to be a kind of drug assisted Neuro-Linguistic Programming and if effective could help many people deal with traumatic events they may have suffered.

Labels: movies, science

Admiral Sir Alan West has been appointed to the newly created Home Office post of Under-Secretary for Security, Counter-terrorism and Police of the United Kingdom.

The former First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff will need to be made a Life Peer in order for him to serve as a Minister in Gordon Brown's government.

I'm bothered that we now have a former senior military officer in a post as a Government Minister without him ever having to be elected by the voters. He will however have a great deal more experience in matters of security to call on than his colleagues at the Home Office.

Labels: politics, Security, Terrorism