Experimenting with Uncertainty: Essays in Honour of Alan Davies: Studies in Language Testing
The Open Rights Group (Free subscription) | yesterday
Please adopt your MP and visit them to explain why disconnection is wrong! 24,000 people have signed the petition against disconnection. Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Graham Linehan and ORG patron Neil Gaiman supported massive efforts to get people to sign But a petition is not enough. It's changed the public debate, brought the media onside and got people active. But now we need targeted action to persuade...
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
More than 22,000 sign petition against parts of the digital economy bill, raising it to sixth place on the No 10 website The Don't Disconnect Us petition, asking the government to drop its proposed measure allowing the disconnection of illegal filesharers , has accumulated 22,793 signatures as of 9am today. After Stephen Fry used Twitter to express his lack of confidence in this law and tweeted a...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
It’s the Christmas edition of QI, the world’s most impossible quiz.On the face of it, QI (short for Quite Interesting) is a TV comedy panel game like any other. It has a chairman and four contestants who are asked questions and get points for their answers. But there the resemblance ends.The questions on QI are so difficult that the panellists almost never get one right. So the chairman...
The Villa Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Birmingham City News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Hitting back at taunts on Twitter, TV star and comic Alan Davies called Aston Villa a 'little club' compared to Arsenal.
Velvet Threads (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Originally published at tansyrr.com . You can comment here or there . 32403 / 50000 I’m catching up on the Alan Davies “It’s Up For Grabs Now” football podcast, which is awesome (especially the Alan Davies impersonation of Arsene Wenger – priceless) but sadly this is last week’s episode and features Alan’s list of the 6 players we need to stay fit all season...
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Henry easing France into World Cup Finals tonight, with his hand.. Ireland lost out to France by a highly controversial goal that was scored both offside and assisted with Le hand of God, Thierry Henry.. Robbie Keane scored the first goal of the night and Ireland troubled France all over the park and looked destined to win. [...]
Fragments of the here and now (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As I sit and wait for my pizza to cool - I just about rescued it from the oven in time but it's still fairly singed - I will consider the rude and downright stupidly hypocritical behaviour of people who are, to me, ignorant. Let me quantify this with a few examples. A man that I was walking past the other day, was angrily telling all and sundry, to sage nods, how he'd happily kill any man who looked...
Velvet Threads (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Originally published at tansyrr.com . You can comment here or there . 30094 / 50000 Christmas came early, Mama got iPod! Yep, I made it to 31 before getting an iPod of my very own. It’s a shiny iPod Touch, which is basically an iPhone without the phone part, and perfect for someone who, well let’s face it, almost never leaves the house. It’s also very well timed because a) my laptop...
McCabism (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Last night, the BBC's popular science series, Horizon , once again featured the urbane and amusing comedian Alan Davies, in a programme entitled How long is a piece of string . Like virtually every other popular science book or programme, it is also reiterated the following interpretation of quantum theory: A particle can be in two different places, A & B, at the same time , This is a claim repeated...
Cruella-blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Back on BBC Radio Two again today (click link, listen again, then forward to 1h 40) to discuss whether or not Colonel Gadaffi is pro-women. Pretty obvious to me that you can't call a man who runs a country where women are imprisoned for being victims of rape "pro-women". Still my opponent's point wasn't that she denied any of this (nor should she - since I was quoting directly from the Human...
Old Pond publishing days (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Alan Davies's Tractor Restoration: paintwork has taken three years to film. Details are in the blog of 14 October. The DVD is now in stock (£19.95, double-disk DVD approx 142 minutes) at Old Pond.
Spiked Online (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Secret Life of The Berlin Wall was gripping, but it didn’t explain anything new, like why East German coke was so bad.
South Downs Living magazine online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Shipley CE Primary School in West Sussex will be hosting its Traditional Christmas Fayre on 27th November this year. The event takes place on a Friday afternoon from 3.15pm until 6.15pm and will be full of festive magic for children. The schools new headmistress Catriona Bull says: “ This year we really want the children to experience the wonder of Christmas. It is a wonderful opportunity to...
Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Hey all! Have you missed me? I had to give up my regular Friday Afternoon Inquisitions due to my life being taken over by an evil presence called ‘work.’ But I missed you guys so I thought I’d sneak in here while Chelsea wasn’t looking and post an AI for today Lately, @phlebas and I have been overdosing on the British show QI (Quite Interesting), which is a panel show hosted...
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