Wibble Archive

  • Slack times

    Slack times

    Well I’m into another slack month. It’s not really funny any more. Not that it ever was. Still, I am cracking on with my plan. I have developed a module for Magento that allows store owners to export csv files with lists of what customer...

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  • labour_manifesto

    Labour’s Manifesto!

    Comrade Stalin suggests, strongly, that you read this!

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  • Random Brit Conquers Space, stuns NASA

    Random Brit Conquers Space, stuns NASA

    Now this makes me proud to be British(ish): http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100325/tod-brit-conquers-space-with-helium-ball-870a197.html Although I do expect he’ll be prosecuted for some ‘elf’n'safety violation which naturally will make me less proud…

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  • Fun with hypocrisy #1 in an occaisional series

    Fun with hypocrisy #1 in an occaisional series

    Tom Harris has, gamely, made a post about the sinister Caroline Lucas and her tenuous connection with science or reality. Sadly, he didn’t mention her desired population of the UK which is substantially lower than at present, nor how she intended to reduce the number...

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  • The Science and Politics of Climate Change @ The institute of ideas

    The Science and Politics of Climate Change @ The institute of ideas

    Here’s a chap I was at school with who’s now a fairly well respected science writer who cut his teeth doing actual physics. He’s moving onto the sceptical end on the politics of AGW where politics is corrupting science and vice-versa…. Watch it here. Or...

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  • Dodgy Dossiers

    Dodgy Dossiers

    If you thought it was only Tony ‘Straight sorta guy’ Blair & ‘Bad’ Al Campbell who would plagiarise a student thesis from the internet to ‘sex up’ a dossier,  wait until you get a load of this! The IPCC, following up their misreporting of glacial melt...

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