Posts Tagged ‘BBC’
Penguins
In a similar vein, the BBC surpass themselves (beating even the spaghetti trees in my opinion)
The Guardian runs down some of the ones it has spotted (The Sun’s is hilarious), including the above.
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Tags: April Fools, BBC, flight, humour, Penguins, video, YouTube
Coupla tings
Brain gradually readjusting to the idea that of a return to work, so nothing profound for my first post of 2008, sorry. Instead, a couple of things that made me smile today
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones has ‘predicted’ what next Decembers technology roundups will read like… amusement for all those geeks and tend-watchers out there! (bemusement [...]
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Tags: 1st post, 2008, BBC, Becky Garrison, Christmas, humour, Jesus, New Year, Rory Cellan-Jones, Seasons Greetings, TallSkinnyKiwi, technoloy
Misrepresentation of the People
[UPDATE: sign the Downing Street petition to support the bill!]
While waiting for my weekly dose of “Heroes”, I was watching a programme last night called “The Ministry of Truth”. It was a wonderfully provocative documentary about a campaign to institute a new act of parliament to stop our politicians lying to us…
You can read about [...]
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Tags: BBC, Documentary, downing street petition, government, Heroes, last night's TV, lying, ministry of truth, misrepresentation of the people act, MPs, petition, standards in public life, truth
Autumn
Autumn is probably my favourite season. I love the colour, the crispness in the air on clear days and the smell of damp leaves on wet ones. There is a quality of light on a clear autumn day that you just don’t get at other times. Just beautiful!
The BBC have a selection of readers photos [...]
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Tags: autumn, BBC, change, colour, fall, leaves, photos, season, sunshine
Beautiful
The BBC News website is good at drawing together collections of images from interesting photographers. This morning they had a link to these photos of India, taken from a kite!
They are just beautiful. Enjoy
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Tags: BBC, beauty, India, photography
Life: A Political Commodity
This story has saddened me, and is beginning to wind me up.
Learco Chindamo is a young man who, over 12 years ago (at the age of only 15!) made a stupid, stupid mistake to be part of a gang. That gang membership led to a fight outside a school where a brave teacher tried to [...]
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Tags: BBC, extradition, human rights, law, Learco Chindamo, media, news, Philip Lawrence, politics

