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I'm still not updating much. However, occasionally there's a matter of real significance.

The Guardian has a full page article about Age of Chance.

And apparently some bloke got a prize. Well done. Entirely deserved, I'm sure.
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The world continues to go to hell in a handbasket, but on the upside there's a new way to annoy people in pubs, and it's even got a cool name.

I've also been meaning to mention this BBC story. Hear that noise? That's the sound of the international biomedical community taking the antivaccine scare and sodomising its corpse like a Dutch mallard. This interesting page cites papers showing that the intestinal oddities that Andrew Wakefield thought were new and linked to MMR had in fact been seen and commented on well before that vaccine was developed - and seem to be harmless.

MMR should of course not be confused with MRR.

Ramblings.

Sep. 16th, 2005 12:53 pm
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So, following revelations that BAe were giving money to Pinochet as recently as last year, the Serious Fraud Office are to investigate. It's a shame we haven't had any good news about the general losing appeals, recently, but it's good news regardless.

I notice also that Cliff Stanford's slightly ill-fated copying of emails resulted in Shirley Porter having to cough up 12 million quid that she'd been claiming not to have. Result!

Doonesbury's apparently back in the Guardian on Monday, and if you like If . . . at all and you've not seen this week's, then it might be an idea to get someone to show you them. They're rather good. The new Private Eye cover is worth looking out for too.

Cthulhu last night, then home for an early night. Relatively early, anyway. Not long after midnight.

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