What's going down in the 'hood?
The latest entries into this pit of despair
- In the pink
- 10 December
The boys-who-kiss-boys couple who run LGBTQIABC+FLAPFLAPFLAP news website PinkNews stand, or kneel, accused of inappropriate behaviour towards their employees. In addition to molesting other boys-who-kiss-boys, their unwanted attentions turned towards female members of staff.
(more…)- A small matter of genocide
- 10 December
I have learnt not to take BBC News' reporting at face value. Critical pieces of information are often missing, leaving a trusting interpretation open to criticism. With that acknowledged, I have to comment on a French-Cameroonian political scientist and his publisher being found guilty in a French court for
(more…)downplaying the Rwandan genocide.
I, pedant; politics- Cecil al-Assad
- 9 December
Syria's fifty-year-old Assad dynasty collapsed in a brief two-week period, following a more than a decade of civil war. We thought Bashar al-Assad would never leave, so yay.
(more…)- politics; spitting image
- You can't dance
- 9 December
An Australian comedienne has created a parody musical of an iconic Australian story: Rachael
(more…)Raygun
Gunn's journey to epic humiliation at the Paris Olympics. Unfortunately, however, Gunn and her representatives threatened legal action to stop the production, to ensure thather brand remained strong and respected.
- entertainment
- A Jag for the few
- 8 December
Jaguar has been losing sales over the last few years, competing with BMW and Audi for the executive market. The company's recent rebranding and EV design concept announcement apparently herald a push upmarket to the luxury sector where it can compete with the likes of Bentley.
(more…)- business; design
The latest updates to past woes
- You can't dance
- 10 December
In her report for the BBC, Rossiter notes Stephanie Broadbridge as saying:
(more…)- entertainment
- Inline emojis
- 1 December
That method of image replacement causes the page to jump around, especially so for slower-loading ones, as text is removed and replaced. It's irritated me for a while, but I've only just got around to fixing it.
(more…)- coding; design; lil' ol' propeller-head me
- Workers' wrongs
- 28 November
Well, that's torn it. Or them…ho-ho-ho.
(more…)- BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?; business; celeb
- Paying tributes paid
- 20 November
With news of Payne's funeral to be held today, I thought I'd check up on how this little stub had developed. And it appears to have been abandoned.
(more…)- celeb; I, pedant
- Avengers disassemble
- 8 November
While the election results are updated on BBC News in real time, thanks to whizzy set-it-and-forget-it plug-in technology, it seems the PRPP's communards themselves have thrown in the towel because, despite what the droid maintains, now that Maine and Nevada have called their results only one state is left to declare, not three. Yet the summary hasn't been updated. I guess they've moved on to lick their wounds and write analyses of why their favoured candidate lost.*
(more…)- I, pedant; politics