www.paulnixon.org

It amused me...

There I was quite innocently looking at some new BaseCamp functionality, the 'ta-da list'.

'View public ta-da lists it said".

The one called 'Life Goals' caught my eye, with just a single entry...

Not Apathetic

Electronically spoil your ballot

Daily Mail Readers of teh World Unite!

Angry blue rinsers

Owen's homesick

Michael Owen's getting homesick apparently.

"I do miss certain things about not being in England - being around your family, your friends, being in your house.

"I had just had my house reshaped and virtually the minute it was finished I was leaving. It is my dream house (with) two dogs, my horse and all the land that I want."

Maptastic

OK, if this doesn't get you excited you're technically dead.

It's basically a scrollable Streetmap - literally actually, as I'm choring their images. Bit naughty but brilliant.

Just click on the map and drag or input a postcode. London only at the moment however.

Seems to work better in Firefox than IE. Like everything else then.

PS If you're having problems with seeing comments and stuff hit ctrl-f5 on your browser. It's because of stupid caching.

Is this intentional?

Actual screenshot from the Conservative website:

Creationists again..

A short article on the 'science' of creationism. I always wonder whether schools in the States are permitted to teach children about dinosaurs. Or astronomy. Or big bang theory. Or, frankly, any of a miriad of current accepted theories that run contrary to the teaching of the good book.

Anyway, from the article..

One of its originators, Phillip Johnson, a law professor at UC Berkeley, wrote in a 1999 article: "The objective is to convince people that Darwinism is inherently atheistic, thus shifting the debate from creationism versus evolution to the existence of God versus the nonexistence of God. From there people are introduced to 'the truth' of the Bible and then 'the question of sin' and finally 'introduced to Jesus.' "

America - We Stand as One

Feels like a spoof. Looks like a spoof. However, I fear, not a spoof.

The Alliance of Science

Stephen Hawkings rapping. What more could you ask for?

Maptastic.. again

Just got better. Check it.

Tory Genius

What an idiot.

Kilroy's at it again

Everybody's favourite permatan man is now sounding off against "liberal facism"

Faith Invaders

The funda-mentalists are coming.

Who Should I Vote For?

Answer the questions and you'll find out. Apparently I'm Lib Dem. Go Kennedy!

The untouched picture

Anne takes the opportunity to congratulate the happy couple

So u think your a cockney init

have fun with these in your Battle cruiser

Lib Dem Local Income Tax

If you've got half an hour for the slowest website in the world to load, you can calculate the likely effect the Lib Dems Local Income Tax would have on your household.

After seeing Charles Kennedy taking an absolute pasting from Paxman tonight (a bit strong and personal even for my taste) I thought I'd have a look and see if I could find the website that he mentioned.

I'm not sure about the 'taxing the rich' theory, if, as was pointed out, a fireman and nurse wife would pay an extra £480 a year.

Paxman -v- Kennedy

And just in case you missed the interview. Tis here.

They want to be elected

A web site that lets you annotate each paragraph of the main party's manifestos (yes cutting and pasting each line was dull!)

Oh well..

There we go then. The Sun backs Blair. One suspects they played it safe until they are pretty sure.

That'll be it then really. A disappointingly solid performance up against Paxman.

Arnie on the slide

Arnie is rapidly turning into public enemy no 1 in california after a string of gaffes. Did the people who voted for him really expect anything different?

It's a good weekend..

In the headlines in the Observer today.

More evidence that Tony Blair is a blatent liar.

And evidence that the current Pope obstructed sexual abuse claims.

I'm always happy to have my armchair hatreds stoked in such a manner.

Firefox Bugs

full of them apparently

That ad break

If anyone watched ITV's coverage of the San Marino GP yesterday will know which one I'm talking about. Well the main one anyway.

With 4 laps remaining of the most exciting race in several years, ITV decide to go to an full length ad break returning only to see the last three quarters of the final lap.

And anyone that saw the race would have to admit that Schumacher's performance was simply awesome.

Unbelievable.

Straw gets a roasting

Jack straw crumbling on the Today program

Neil Duncanson

following on from paul's entry about the grand prix, here's soneone else's opinion on the matter. Warning, contains lots of bad language

Gaim

An open source version of messenger. Microsoft, in my view, have made a real hash of MSN 7. Here's a nice clean alternative.

Thanks to a tip-off from Bob.

Bee ban

I'm all up for animal welfare, but is this taking it too far?

Vegan Society

It doesn't stop at bees.

Apparently, other insects suffer an equally cruel fate.

Take the lac; a scale insect.

I quote..

"To produce just 1 kilogram of lac resin around 300,000 insects lose their tiny lives."