Doodled during the Shock of the Old Conference (Oxford)
Month: March 2007
Metal Owls
Don’t you love it when surveys confirm your own prejudices :-) A few years back I came across a Times article about how Night Owls were the wiser (I think based on this Science article), condemning the dim-witted Larks with one well-aimed comparison (Churchill = Owl, Blair = Lark). Now there’s another marvelous survey that […]
Documentaries Online
I was checking my del.icio.us feed today and noticed a site that brings together the best documentaries on-line. Most of them look like naughty Google Video rips to me – but the site doesn’t host them so that’s OK. Go on – download some communism and edutain yourself :-)
Sir Tim
Is it just me, or at the mention of Sir Tim does everyone look around nervously for the vicious Chicken of Bristol? Brave, brave, Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the inventor of the Web – is a Professor at the University of Southampton, and I’ve just returned from his Inaugural Lecture on the past and future […]
The Great Climate Change Swindle
I finally got around to watching last weeks Dispatches program (Channel 4, UK) on the arguments against climate change. It was a fascinating, well made piece of rhetoric, although I’d rather have seen a balanced presentation of the facts. We are long past the point about arguing about whether climate change is real, it is […]
Within Temptation
Why am I always the last to hear about bands? Rock music is a guilty passion of mine and last month I spent a few idle hours on Youtube looking at a number of Symphonic Metal Bands and wondering if I should speculatively buy an album or two. In the end I found this group […]
CPD Doodles
Doodled during a CPD session on University Finances (held in Southampton).