The misadventures of Chris Carter... (or, Carry On Circuit Bending)
Being a continuing saga of broken fingers... Read the latest episode here.

Being a continuing saga of broken fingers... Read the latest episode here.
Eric Carlin is the latest expert to resign from the UK government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, clearly unhappy with the way the our politicians base important decisions on drugs on how many favourable tabloid headlines and votes they think they'll get out of it. Read his letter of resignation here.
2010 is shaping up as a good year for Facebook scare stories. Earlier this month the rabidly right-wing Daily Mail exposed Facebook as a den of drooling paedophiles waiting to prey on its readers' innocent young darlings, only to have to correct the story later in the face of threats of legal action from Facebook. Then this week a story that claimed Facebook use was responsible for an increase in the spread of syphilis was picked up by the usual suspects among the UK "news"papers.