Monthly Archives: June 2005

Jerry Springer – legal bid rejected

BBC – Springer Opera legal bid rejected: A bid to bring judicial review proceedings against the BBC for its broadcast of Jerry Springer – The Opera has been rejected. The Christian Institute said the BBC discriminated against Christians and breached … Continue reading

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Patent Application #20050071741 – implications and indications

SEOmoz – Google’s Patent: Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data: This report has been prepared to help SEOs understand the concepts and practical applications contained in Google’s US Patent Application #20050071741 – Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data. My own … Continue reading

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Genius at work

the very model of a modern labour minister : a tribute to charles clarke and his id cards This link comes to you via Perfect. As do these: Identity cards: nothing to hide, nothing to fear? ID cards losing support … Continue reading

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Proxy-blogs

The proxy-blog for Mark Pritchard is go. I know that I missed out on a few of these over the last 12 weeks, so if you’ve launched one recently and I haven’t plugged it yet, feel free to speak up … Continue reading

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Timely terror shock #342

Isn’t it funny how a fake alert or an un-named threat or old intelligence dressed up as a current threat always crops up every time this government readies itself to remove another of our liberties? And isn’t it rather odd … Continue reading

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Live8

I saw this. I did this. UPDATE – Ahahahahahaha! UPDATE – eBay have pulled my auction! If you missed it, it was an 8-year-old Australian belt (picture) tastefully and artfully arranged into a figure-8 to represent Bob Geldof’s sense of … Continue reading

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Two in a row would be a fine thing indeed

Guess which MP’s website made the shortlist for the New Statesman New Media Awards 2005.

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The terrorists win. Again.

Evening Standard – Exclusion zone to Parliament protests: Political protests are to be curbed in a half-mile “exclusion zone” around Parliament, it emerged today. A map of the zone, drawn up by ministers and slipped out in the Commons, shows … Continue reading

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Doing it for Teh Kids

Hooray for Koala Play Group (take a look at the bottom of the page).

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The very moral agenda

Today, Page 3 stunna Neval (22, from London) believes Micahel Jackson’s career could be over despite his acquittal on child abuse charges. She says: “The case was a tremendous drain on him. Some people will always have their doubts about … Continue reading

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