Author Archives: Giolla

Last week on facebook

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I’m afraid I’m going to join the ranks of bloggers that put up lists of links, I post all sorts of random stuff up on Facebook that I never get round to saying anything much about so I figure I should probably link to the better bits here. Not all tree rings show global warming Fracking surprisingly popular despite scare mongering The Guardian on why the Snowden revelations matter Punk Rock Libertarians explain in simple language what a subsidy is Obama demonstrates he doesn’t understand and has never heard of “industrial action” +170

There’s something about UKIP

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I was going to write a different article, but then I read more articles from various political pundits and changed my mind, so instead you have a slightly rambling article which probably isn’t going to say anything new. We are thankfully now out of political conference season, not quite sure what purposes these conferences do any more other than raise funds and get the select parties free TV time but anyway. What’s been interesting is how much time the political punditry (which as I’m writing this, should include myself) have spent talking about UKIP. Every other parties conference seems to … Continue reading →

High priests of the endarkenment

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The barbarians are it seems at the very gates of the ivory towers, and I apologise for such an over used metaphor. The popular on line science magazine “Popular Science” is drawing up the door bridge and closing down comments. Now their gaff their rules, they can do whatever they like, they could have moderated comments, rated them all sorts of things, but they chose to turn off comments and let people discuss things on their forums which does serve the purpose of restricting those that comment to only the genuinely interested so fair enough. Their reasoning is that: “Comments … Continue reading →