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BBC NEWS | Politics | Make child play safer, say Tories
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He added: "Adults' natural authority, good sense and positive instincts have been dangerously undermined, so adults no longer feel any right, or any responsibility, to constrain children's behaviour if they are not their own. This is a disaster for our society, and we have to reverse it."
BBC News - How stranger danger changed the way children play - 2009
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Growing affluence and the child-centred society has certainly not brought with it a richer outdoor play experience for children. The physical and psychological consequences of this lost world of children's play are now beginning to be felt, most obviously with the well documented increase in child obesity, child aggression and the isolation of children who now spend most of their free time indoors.
funny placenames Electrical Audio • View topic - Holy shit, go have a look at the Wikipedia home page
A whole list of them, with pics and links. Sadly I don't know what the Wikipedia Main Page was that started this off.
No Snickering - That Road Sign Means Something Else - NYTimes.com
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Add Sticky NoteThe guidelines mention the hypothetical residents of No. 4, with their unfortunate hypothetical address, “4 Corfe Close.”
- A bit sad if you ask me. - on 2009-12-03
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The guidelines mention the hypothetical residents of No. 4, with their unfortunate hypothetical address, “4 Corfe Close.”
Fucking, Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I think the Austrians don't want us to laugh
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tz-online notes that numerous villages across the border in Germany have names that are "unfortunate" even in German, including Affendorf (Monkey Village), Faulebutter (Putrid Butter), Fickmühlen (Fuck Mill), Himmelreich (Kingdom of Heaven), Katzenhirn (Cat Brain), Plöd (Stupid), Regenmantel (Raincoat), Sklavenhaus (Slave House) and Warzen (Warts).
Luke's Blog: Tory hypocrisy on health and safety
Red tape Britain - don't tell the Daily Mail
The gamers' voice on the backbenches: ePolitix.com | Dec 2009
Extensive interview with Tom Watson MP - a very interesting man, both an IT geek and a democracy geek
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"My message to them… was transparency and accountability wasn't a goal, it was a process to which we would achieve collaborative democracy using these tools.
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"This is now Britain's youth and under-30s saying we want a different settlement with copyright, don't mess around with the way we live our lives. I just really hope that the Government and the Tory front bench listen to that.
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paulcanning: Lessons from the great 2009 Birmingham City Council website disaster
Interesting
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However, it is not impossible and in fact we have undertaken a couple of such projects where we have utilised Alfresco open source ECM technology, and also engaged with the organisation on an agile basis (one of these based in Birmingham .... kinda ironic).
The trick has been about clear expectation setting up front, and ensuring that all stake holders understand the process and the requirements on them as an organisation.
I have to say though, both of these projects came about following fiasco's with large SI's, that held some kind of blanket contract to deliver all things IT related - including websites, DM systems, collaboration and the like - with subsequent failure to deliver on time, within budget, and to a degree of functional capability that could be considered acceptable.
4.8. The Open Source, Open Standards and Reuse Strategy « Make IT Better | Dec 2009
Woolly and vague UK policy update
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But the root cause is the failure of the Government to ensure that the public secures rights to access the source, to fix bugs and to add features to the information systems it buys. So, though moving completely to free and open source software (FOSS) would solve this problem, this isn’t not necessary.
Proudhon and Anarchism - L. Gambone
historical paper - about pragmatic anti-utopian anarchist philosophy
Alpha Mummy - Times Online - WBLG: Dilemma: what to do when your child is a bad loser
yawn
Alpha Mummy - Times Online - WBLG: These kids have TOO MANY SODDING TOYS
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I took exactly half the toys, put them in bin-bags, and hid them in the basement.
Crass Stupidity » Royal Mail: It’s All About Money
No concern for customer retention - and no flexibility. And 'Large' stamps, for your 6 mm thick mail, are not sold in shops, only at the increasingly rare Post Office counters. Pah!
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It contains a couple of screws a friend had sent me. I asked why there was insufficient postage on it and was told:
“A lot of people ask that [pause there to see if there's a lesson to be learned by Royal Mail]. It’s because it’s thicker than 5mm…”
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It contains a couple of screws a friend had sent me. I asked why there was insufficient postage on it and was told:
“A lot of people ask that [pause there to see if there's a lesson to be learned by Royal Mail]. It’s because it’s thicker than 5mm…”
YouTube - Batman - by Google search stories
Search, seen as a dynamic story. Funny and strangely compelling 30 second TV ad. A brief glimpse of an option I hadn't seen: image search filtered by colour.
The bank revolt of '09
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tri-state residents are fleeing to low-cost credit unions -- growing the amount of cash on account at the depositor-owned financial institutions by 34.5 percent in June 2009 compared to the year earlier month, according to a new survey.
That's well ahead of the 7 percent gain for all metro area deposits -- consumer, business, trust, etc. -- according to the survey by Chicago-based Moebs Services.
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