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Parliament — Too Secret To Report On

In a move that’s in dir­ect con­flict with the 1688 BIll of Rights guar­an­tee­ing the unres­tric­ted report­ing of par­lia­ment (“[t]hat the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or ques­tioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament”), the Guardian today was gagged by a high court injunc­tion

The End is Nigh

In a mere fort­night the final epis­ode of Galactica hits the air, and we will finally find out how it all ends. After nearly five years of watch­ing, I can’t frakking wait.
I won’t offer any spoil­ers here (for those people I know who are only still watch­ing the earlier sea­sons), but Topless Robot offers 20

If you only have 20 minutes to save the world…

Don’t save the world, just learn to listen. Starting with John Francis, who didn’t use any form of motor­ised trans­port for 30 years, and didn’t speak for 17 of them.

Das Rad (The Rock)

I’m work­ing on a short story about dif­fer­ent per­spect­ives over a long period of time at the moment, as was boun­cing around the inter­webs for inspir­a­tion when I came across this little gem from the 2003 Academy Awards for short films. It didn’t win, but it clearly deserved the nom­in­a­tion.
There’s a higher res­ol­u­tion ver­sion (def­in­itely

View from my Garden

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View from my Garden, ori­gin­ally uploaded by iamseb.

You wouldn’t think this is April, rather than January.