The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom but what we refer to as repressive legislation.
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U.S. scientists worry we aren’t ready for a solar space storm that could knock out our electricity, our cell phones, even our water supply.
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I Know You’re Listening
I’m tempted to do this sometimes especially when on the phone as it is quite probable that all phone conversations in the UK are being monitored although probably only by a computer.
Neil Gaiman interviewed by Henry Jenkins for the Julius Schwartz Memorial Lecture series at MIT. He talks about his happiness in being placed in the gutter of genre fiction by the literati and about the dark qualities of his children’s fiction.
How Karen Lodrick tracked down and caught the woman who’d stolen her identity.
President George W. Bush spoke with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz Sunday following an incident in which an Iraqi reporter threw two shoes at the president.
Bush told Raddatz he wasn’t insulted by the shoe-throwing, and that stranger things have happened to him.
Is it still an insult if the person being insulted doesn’t consider it to be an insult?
UK ignores logic, backs 20-year music copyright extension
Ignoring the findings of the Government funded Gowers Report which concluded that copyright extension would yield little benefit Culture Minister Andy Burnham wishes to press ahead with extending copyright for musical recordings by 20 years arguing that there is a moral case.
Only having 50 years to exploit their copyright will leave artists destitute in their twilight years apparently even though evidence suggests that the hypothetical musician that is still popular enough to still be selling records over five decades after they’ve been released but not popular enough that they’ve not made a ton of money over those 50 years doesn’t exist.
How times have changed.
A British teacher has been suspended after making his pupils do push-ups as a punishment for arriving late to class.
The Derby Moor Community Sports College, where the unnamed teacher worked, said an investigation was underway and that its “priority is to ensure that students are happy to be in school.”
I’m sure push-ups are not an Ofsted approved punishment but it seems to me to be a fitting punishment at a Sports College.
Mr Crouch my sadistic PE teacher at school would make pupils do push-ups for the slightest infraction and loved every second of it.
The BBC reports that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to unveil an 18-month pilot scheme to test UK national identity cards by issuing them to airside workers at London City and Manchester airports.