They've found the deleted scenes from Metropolis! Sci-fi geeks rejoice! And pray Cthulhu we get a showing of it at the FFW next year...

matgb has a highly amusing post about the hypocrisy of the guy who sued the BBC for showing Jerry Springer: The Opera and upsetting his delicate religious sensibilities (related Facebook group).

Don't watch anything on YouTube which isn't allowed to be there, else you'll get got.

Creationism hits science classrooms in the UK. and we are funding it via the state school mechanism. *I* am paying for some poor kids to be taught complete bollocks as though it is fact. Amused Cynicism makes comment more eloquently than I ever could.

The Torygraph have picked their top ten ever Doctor Who episodes. No surprises that it's Ten-heavy, but perhaps surprising that it contains no Trout. And, obvs, Caves of Androzani should be #1.

James May is amazed that the BBC are upset with him for drinking a G&T, when really, they should be upset with him for putting slices of lemon in it. LIME, James, LIME!

Jeremy Thorpe says Robert Mugabe must die. I guess there's a limit to everyone's Liberalism, eh?

David Davies shows just how pro-liberty he really is. Hey ho. Is anyone actually surprised by this?

Chicky Yog imagines Gordon as a barman and finds him wanting.

The turkeys HAVE voted for Christmas: Mike at PB is right. Any PPC opposing any of the lot who voted for this is going to have a field day.

Firstly, PHD Comics, as innerbrat says, sometimes gets so close to the bone that it hurts.

My ambition for right now? Be able to make the rent this month.

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This blog entry made me cry. I have friends who have been through this, who GO through this, every day. I don't think I could, and will continue to fight for their right not to have to. Greek islanders notwithstanding.

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Nadine Dorries is evil and must be stopped. When I discovered I was pregnant with shrublette, I was already 19 weeks. This was mostly because I didn't believe that I could be pregnant, given that I was religiously agnostically taking the contraceptive pill, and had a very, um, sporadic sex life with my then partner. If Dorries had her way, I would have had no choice at that stage (because, lets face it, getting the NHS to act in less than a week? NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN). I do not in any way regret the choice that I made, but am none the less glad that the choice was there.

Well, luckily there is a campaign going. Lets all support it, eh?

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freddiefraggles makes an interesting point about role models:

As discussed here, there aren't that many women role models for girls who might be interested in a career in technology or engineering. Goodness knows, in this day and age where parents can often be behind the times and like to nudge their children in the right direction, more prolific women in I.T. and engineering could be a good thing.

But I don't understand why girls need female role models. In anything. Why can't girls aspire to male role models? Why shouldn't I admire someone like Lance Armstrong or Brian May? Goodness knows there aren't better role models in their areas, male or female.

So why do people (the media, the general public) presume that girls and young women can only relate to and look up to other women for careers and their ambitions? Well, I believe it's because they're still discriminating, even if it's subconscious. Boys can only do techie jobs and building and must look up to male role models, and girls can only do caring jobs and office jobs and must look up to female role models. What a load of codswallop.

I agree wholeheartedly. I am particularly proud to have among my friends the glorious strangefrontier, who wrote to the famed misogynist Patrick Moore to thank him for inspiring her to become a scientist. :D

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Several people have recently blogged about the nonsensical and counterproductive No Platform stance which is given to the BNP, and the strange fruit (yes, I am aware of the connotations of this term, and it was chosen deliberately) it has borne on the GLA, including the alternately brilliant and infuriating Johann Hari.

I have been banging on about this for ages. Enforcing No Platform gives the BNP ammunition when they claim to be the voice of the disenfranchised. It gives them a mystique, and lets them look hard done by. Censorship never changes minds, but the light of day can. For one thing, it might help prevent idiocies like the two consecutive comments on the Hari article - one from an immigrant (has he actually READ the BNP's constitution?) and one from someone who claims to be an investment banker (has he looked at their "costed policies"?). Let Nick Griffin by skewered by Paxo. Properly. Like Michael Howard was. Let the BNP show themselves up for the tossers they are, and then see if anyone wants to vote for them, rather than lending them the mystique of oppression.

Also, can people stop calling them far right? They aren't right wing. They're old labour with added racism.

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This reminds me. Need to put the Creative Commons thing on here...

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News for Radio Four folk: the fustercluckery on Sunday was particularly counterproductive, given this interesting little snippet (thanks burkesworks!). Who would have suspected that large numbers of goths listen to radio four, apart from the poor producer who has had to sift through all the outraged emails this week... palecast has more on this.

>:D

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And finally...

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