The unanswerable questions posed tothe Urban Legends Reference Pages. via MeFi.
Month: July 2005
Quackwatch
Interview with a British Jihadist | MetaFilter
Prospect interviews a Jihadist from Manchester, and Metafilter discusses.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ludicrous self-publicist Robert Kilroy-Silk has quit the party he founded, Veritas.
Apparently, the ideas he espoused, such as immediate withdrawal from the European Union, abolishing inheritance tax on houses and expelling all asylum seekers (except those with children) are “now part of the political mainstream”. I can’t say I’d noticed, to be honest, but perhaps that’s what all washed up has-been xenophobes like to think.
We are what we are
Tristram Hunt (author of the excellent Building Jerusalem) invokes Orwell in an excellent article in the New Statesman, on the nature of Britishness.
A historic day in Northern Ireland
That IRA statement in full.
The Rap Canterbury Tales
An amazing Rap version of some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. via BBC News.
Make your own Google logo
Pretend you are the world’s leading search company. (via BoingBoing)
The dinner and democracy set
The Power Inquiry, which is still going strong, is proposing that people have dinner with each other and talk about democracy. Raita and representation or polenta and people power? Link via Demos Greenhouse.
Masson #4
Ooh, Doug Masson’s wife is in labour – good luck!