I thought this was worth repeating
Crowds of people have marched in Sudan’s capital Khartoum to call for a tougher sentence for a British teacher imprisoned for insulting religion.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was jailed for 15 days on Thursday after allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad.
More at the BBC
Questions of accessibility
On my way out of the supermarket this morning I passed an argument between two men about the use of disabled / handicapped parking spaces. This made me wonder where the ultimate moral line is in this situation.
Man A, said to Man B, “I just went to get some cash, I wasn’t taking the piss” [...]
Don’t think about an orange penguin
Have you ever tried to imagine nothing? It’s difficult if not impossible. Similar to not thinking about an orange pengiun, but much much harder.
As humans we are able to preceive three spacial dimensions: side to side, top to bottom, near to far. We are aware of a fourth: time, but that’s is pretty much the [...]
Pennies
CSS - Art or Science?
I have been following a really interesting discussion on frameworks at jeffcroft.com and a separate point has been raised about the nature of writing html and CSS. The opposing views are on the one hand that writing html and css is an art form and on the other that it is simply a means to [...]
Is it possible to trust the facts in a system biased towards perpetuating the accepted view?
That’s my longest title to date. Not bad. I was going to call it Global Warming is a Lie!!!!!!!!!!!, but I am not going argue that at all so I thought it was best to avoid the flamers by being all academic sounding about it.
Over the last few weeks I have read some blogs, some [...]