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Grey Noughts
http://gnoughts.blogspot.com/
Random thoughts about anything and everything, with no apparent difference in importance to me, you, or the world at large. In other words, grey noise thoughts, grey noughts, gnoughts!
It does seem to concentrate most on news, views, science, etc.
- Added on: Nov 4th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Vladimir Oka
- Listed in: Society News & Media
Recent Posts
A Perfect eBook Reader
No, it doesn't exist yet. Also, if you were expecting to get advice on which one to buy you may have come to the wrong place. What I will expound on below is what I think a perfect eBook reader ought to be. I may give examples of little bits that som...
NO!
No, I am not writing about how we (almost) got burgled for the second time in not much more years. Which would have made it thrice in the same town (Reading), in just shy of seven years. Which again fails to account for my wife finding a burglars in ...
Could YOU Beat Me To Death?
Yesterday it hit the news in the UK, at least in the South, how a group of three teenagers (17, 17, and 16, not named for legal reasons), have cruelly killed a 4-6 week old red deer fawn in a wildlife park. The whole incident was watched, and relayed...
Cured Of Feminism
(This continues the series (of two, so far) translations of my contributions to the press at large.)Belgrade political weekly Vreme has recently (19 November 2009) asked its readers to evoke their memories of primary school teachers. I duly complied,...
Joint Enterprise (Another Misguided Policy)
Minutes after finishing the previous post I saw a BBC Panorama show on the subject of "joint enterprise", a piece of UK legislation that covers persons who were present at a crime (especially a murder) and did not leave or attempt to do anything to s...
Life Is Life (Or So It Should Be)
Again, this is not about that famous 80s song. Neither it is about that not so famous, but so much better in my opinion, cover by Laibach. So what is it about then?Life sentence. In the United Kingdom in particular.Why? Mostly because it is pointless...
