Yesterday (19th September) was International Talk like a Pirate day.
However, I’ll be betting that more of ‘ee know about this pretty little flibbert o’ fun than the fact that tomorrrow (21st September) be International World Peace Day. Gharr.
So, you scurvy landlubbers, I thought I’d do me bit, and tell ‘ee about both.
One day, I’m hoping [...]

This is truly an appalling story, that is receiving NO media coverage whatsoever.
http://bookshop.livejournal.com/834653.html
Read it and be as outraged as I…

As some of you may or may not know, the lovely Ann attended SXSW interactive this year.
I so wasn’t expecting it, but I got brought back a pressie from Austin:

Note the tearing on the label? When I got given said pressie, it was Australian GP weekend, so I was sitting on the chair [...]

“I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike,
“I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like.”
It is weird. London is known for being a very traffic congested city, and yet, having been cycling through it to work from Cannon Street over the last couple of weeks, [...]

… the Government charge us girls 5% VAT on Sanitary towels, tampons and panty liners?
Now, I’m a great fan of the PM’s new Petitions section on his website. I feel it really is interactive democracy, and about time as well!
Some nice lady has started a petition to abolish this VAT, after all, I don’t [...]