If you watch one video this mont hmake sure it is this lecture on the difference between the Western and Third World. Everything you know is wrong.
This tirade caught my eye.
I sympathise with the writer. He needed a better editor (one who didn’t give him such an awful headline), and isn’t really a patch on Clarkson when it comes to writing over-reactionary prose. But there are numerous choice sentences:
If we recreate the Dark Ages in the 21st century, it [...]
The NHS is happy to let you go blind in one eye. A group of doctors has called the idea of free health care in the UK a mirage. They are right.
A Goldman Sachs trader has been warned to stop using the social networking site, Facebook, after the IT department noted that he had spent four hours a day using the website. He posted the email to Facebook, as the link shows.
There are probably several points of interest here, but what I find most interesting [...]
I keep hearing that the “monopoly” on the delivery of letters has ended, and that there is now competition. But it’s a strange form of competition.
As an individual, as far as I can see, Royal Mail still has a monopoly, and the prices of all services are increasing from 2nd April. [...]
I’ve reported before on attacks on Academic freedom in the US. It was only a matter of time before the same thing came here.
If government departments share data they are, we are told ‘more efficient’. They also invade privacy more efficiently. Clearly there needs to be a balance: one would hope that this could be settled rationally and democratically, in an informed manner. After all, we pay over six hundred people in the House of [...]
I was greatly amused to read this expose of the effect that living in Brussels has on one’s use of English:
Even more irritating is the minimalist, English-as-a-foreign-language idiom that has become the EU’s lingua franca. If you are feeling smug about the fact that English has become universal, I suggest you listen to what [...]
There is a rather excellent video that has been created by M. Wesch and Kansas State University about the development of the web and the way it is changing or might change our approach to text and information.
“Unfortunately the people carrying out these attacks include children. They obviously do not realise what they are doing and are copying others.”
Well, it’s possible, though not, I think, ‘obvious’. It’s also possible that they know exactly what they are doing and, like the older people involved, simply don’t care or - worse - [...]