The BBC’s story about Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, winning substantial damages from two UK newspapers (the Sun and the Sunday Times) which falsely claimed he supported terrorism contains a link to Yusuf Islam’s site – but when you click on it in Firefox… you end up chez Bill Gates. Interesting.
I [...]
I’ve had a play with the design of the blog – which eventually I’ll carry over to the rest of the site.
Before I actually implement it, though, I’d like your comments – you can see a screenshot of it here. Ignore the content… and it is quite a large image!
Please do let me know what [...]
Note especially in this article from BBC News the line “My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn’t believe what we were seeing.”:
A devout Baptist couple who bought a Doris Day DVD from a supermarket were shocked to find a sex film instead. [...]
I’ve just come across this Arabic sentence in an exercise I’ve been doing:
It means, for those of you who don’t speak the language, “I have a cold and a headache”. Which is exactly what I have. I was about to give up on the exercise and go to bed because I felt so ill when [...]
From Reuters:
“Now, the temptation is going to be, by well-meaning people such as yourself and others here, as we run up to the issue, to get me to negotiate with myself in public,” Bush told the questioner on Monday. “To say, you know, ‘What’s this mean, Mr. President? What’s that mean?’”
Negotiate with yourself, [...]
…it’s a space station!
I happened across this photo of Saturn’s moon Mimas, which looks surprisingly similar to the Death Star from Star Wars, taken by the probe Cassini. Mimas is 398 km (247 miles) across, and that’s not a superlaser you see, but a giant crater called Herschel, which is a third the size of [...]
Like everyone else, I’m getting loads of spam at the moment. It doesn’t bother me too much, I just delete it all. But one email I got this morning struck me as a really weird piece of spam. At least, I hope it’s spam – I didn’t recognise the sender… so if it’s you, I [...]
It seems that in the last few days 14 people have arrived at my site having searched on Google for “Boris Johnson and Plain English Campaign“. How strange, I thought to myself. Surely there can’t be a connection there…? How wrong I was. A quick search leads you to the Plain English Campaign, and the [...]
I came across the site ThankYouTony.com as I was browsing the World Wide InterWebNet.
Whereas, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, has vigorously supported the United States in the disarmament of Iraq; Whereas, the United Kingdom is a strong and loyal ally to the United States; [...]
I came across this article on the site of one of Britain’s foremost tabloid newspapers (tabloid, not compact) – complete with picture:
YES, I’M A PM IN DISGUISE TORY leader Michael Howard hopes to get his party All Shook Up for the next election – by adopting an Elvis Presley song. [...]