British local governments deploy anti-teenager pink lights designed to make kids ashamed of their appearance – Boing Boing

This is absolutely brilliant…

“British local councils have a new weapon in their arsenal of devices that collectively and indiscriminately punish teenagers simply for being young. The new tool is a pink overhead light designed to exaggerate acne, with the intention of making children so unhappy and insecure about their appearances that they go somewhere else [...]

Home Secretary subscribes to Virgin Media

As recent news can testify, the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith is a customer of Virgin Media, which is interesting because it is not that often that the public get to know what celebrities and politicians actually watch
via Home Secretary subscribes to Virgin Media.
… it is almost comforting to know that he is not having an [...]

Today there be pirates…

Today they will be pirates again… yet two years older, and Katie is probably going to be a princess .

Two Wrongs do not make a right

The whole hubbub about Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension has rumbled on for a while now. It is awful that a person who has performed so poorly should be so compensated in ‘retirement’, but the whole set of events has produced a much worse sticky issue. This issue is the fact that the government has [...]