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Blair to tackle ‘menace’ children

Tomorrow’s potential troublemakers can be identified even before they are born, Tony Blair has suggested.

Sounds familliar

I have quite a lot going on at the moment so site updates for the next couple of weeks will be erratic, at best. Normal service will be resumed at the start of September.

If people are that ignorant about popular culture, what hope is there for politics?

- James Graham

Back in January, I mentioned The Root of All Evil, a two part series that was shown on Channel 4.

I’ve just discovered, via Perlocutionary, that The Troglodyte has the entire series online, split into nice easily digestible chunks.

Click here to watch it.

As explained by Dilbert.

This is great, just watch it.

(Via FilmRot)

Echosphere (via) has a rather entertaining collection of Star Trek Inspirational Posters

There are lots more. Click here to see them.

Click here to listen to stand-up comedian, George Carlin’s take on the Ten Commandments. (via)

Richard Dawkins on the celestial teapot…

When the next heatwave hits, enjoy a cool glass of beer dafe in the knowledge that beer bran, a by-product of brewing beer from barley, can be used to clean polluted waters.

Researchers at Kobe Pharmaceutical University in Japan have demonstrated that the bran adsorbs hazardous organic compounds including benzene and trichloroethylene (TCE) from chemical and industrial wastewater.

Since beer bran is readily available as a by-product of brewing, it is up to 100 times cheaper than the more commonly used carbon filters.

I’ll drink to that!