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Simon Singh Kicks Chiropractic Ass!

15/04/2010

Brilliant news, well done Mr. Singh!

Ben Goldacre: The BCA have dropped their case. It has not been good for them. It will now get worse. Singh has made it clear that he will pursue them for his costs: this will cost the BCA dearly, and it is money they can ill afford. I’m off to write about it for the Guardian but I thought you’d like to know, BBC and Times pieces below. People who sue people over criticisms of science are fools. The BCA statement, meanwhile, is typically vile. Especially the bit where they talk about being vindicated. Oh, and amusingly this is Chiropractic Awareness Week. Yes. Yes it is.

EVOL

13/04/2010

Aren’t these fab?

designboom: EVOL is a berlin based street artist that transforms banal urban surfaces, into miniature architectural surfaces through pasting. using pasted paper, EVOL transforms electric boxes, small planters and other geometric city forms, into miniature apartment buildings and other structures. each piece of paper is printed with a repetitive pattern of flat gray walls dotted with plain window frames. once applied to a surface, the paper transforms the form into small building that EVOL often adorns with small characters. EVOL performs this process within different cities and has even been commissioned to do installations in galleries, where he was created entire blocks of miniature buildings.

Pixels

13/04/2010

I’d be surprised if any of ye haven’t seen this, but it’s brilliant so just in case…

Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI -Times Online

12/04/2010

<applause>

Times Online: RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain â€œfor crimes against humanityâ€.

Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.

The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.

David Prowse as Vader

12/04/2010

Despite knowing all about Prowse, I’d never actually heard his voice before today. Thank the gods for James Earl Jones!

[NSFW] “Give it some pillock.”

08/04/2010

A little light entertainment to make up for yesterday’s depression.

The Woodruff Special

08/04/2010

Insane. I had one of those horns on a Daihatsu Domino, always drew a smile. Or a look of bewilderment. :)

Collateral Murder

07/04/2010

Very sad.

Living Room Lamborghini

01/04/2010

I only get to fantasise about things like this…

(Via Gizmodo.)

We don’t even own a majority of NAMA?

31/03/2010

According to Money Guide Ireland we actually only own 49% of this toxic waste, the rest is owned by PTSB, AIB and BOI, who purchased their share for just €51m. That’s can’t be right, surely?

But â€“ there is a small catch â€“ PRIVATE INVESTORS actually own 51% of Nama’s (National Asset Management Agency) property loans.

17% is owned by Irish Life which is part of Permanent TSB

17% is owned by New Ireland â€“ which is part of the Bank of Ireland Group

17% is owned by â€œmajor pension and institutional clientsâ€ of AIB Investment Managers

They paid €51 Million for a 51% share in NAMA.