http://www.min-data.co.uk/ Min-Data UK Blogs http://img.min-data.co.uk/rsslogo.gif http://www.min-data.co.uk/ en-GB http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 Today, Google is playing silly games with dropping <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/newton10-apple.png' title='an apple'>an apple</a> [google.co.uk] from <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/newton10-tree.jpg' title='a tree branch in its logo'>a tree branch in its logo</a> [google.co.uk] (to celebrate Isaac Newton). 2010-01-04T12:14:39+00:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 I don't know what it's about but <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/d4gwinner09_uk-hp.gif' title='it&#039;s pretty'>it's pretty</a> [google.co.uk]. 2009-12-18T11:48:02+00:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 By the light of the <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/wateronmoon09-hp.gif' title='watery moon'>watery moon</a> [google.co.uk] ... 2009-11-14T18:59:51+00:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 Yay - <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/wallaceandgromit09.gif' title='Wallace and Gromit'>Wallace and Gromit</a> [google.co.uk]! 2009-11-04T11:58:28+00:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/orsted09.gif' title='Another sciencey one'>Another sciencey one</a> [google.co.uk]. 2009-08-14T10:20:49+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 Another nice one - <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/perseids09.gif' title='the perseid meteor shower'>the perseid meteor shower</a> [google.co.uk]. 2009-08-12T12:56:51+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 Yay - <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/moonlanding09.gif' title='lunar landing'>lunar landing</a> [google.co.uk]! 2009-07-21T08:22:52+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/tesla09.gif' title='Science with (almost obligatory) lightning effects!'>Science with (almost obligatory) lightning effects!</a> [google.co.uk] 2009-07-10T08:30:27+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?852 A few more (a couple very delayed) in Y13: <span style='font-weight: bold;'>fairyV</span>, <span style='font-weight: bold;'>telepath</span>, <span style='font-weight: bold;'>plumber</span> (or dalek impersonator!) and <span style='font-weight: bold;'>fishing</span> (also multi-purpose). 2009-07-06T17:21:06+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/stravinsky09.gif' title='Stravinsky&#039;s Firebird'>Stravinsky's Firebird</a> [google.co.uk] 2009-06-17T10:47:43+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 PS and the <a href='http://www.google.com/logos/tetris09_res.gif' title='little one'>little one</a> [google.com]. 2009-06-06T08:27:59+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 It's gone all <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/tetris09.gif' title='tetris'>tetris</a> [google.co.uk] at us - making it harder to read than it need have been. 2009-06-06T08:00:47+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 A nice <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/missinglink.gif' title='google tribute'>google tribute</a> [google.co.uk] to the primate fossil, apart from inappropriately calling it "missing link" (as per the ridiculous over-hype from the media and a few dodgy scientists). 2009-05-27T07:40:02+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1189 Dear SEF,<br /><br /> I have recently updated the t-shirt pages and added lots of new science shirts. I also have many ladybird items. Let me know your sweatshirt size and I can check for shirts that might not be mentioned on the site.<br /> <br />Kathy 2009-05-12T16:06:25+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/stgeorge09.gif' title='Wooing a dragon'>Wooing a dragon</a> [google.co.uk] is much better than fighting it. 2009-04-23T08:05:36+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?1812 The 2009 <a href='http://www.google.co.uk/logos/earthday09.gif' title='earth-day'>earth-day</a> [google.co.uk] one is nice too. 2009-04-22T12:07:10+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?3569 I'd say it was definitely in the running for worst BBC programme "evah" - of the ones I've had the misfortune to come across, anyway. I don't generally listen to any radio nor watch the stuff which is pre-labelled as being religious tat and hence guaranteed to be full of lies. So it could conceivably be further down the list of the BBC's sins than I'm guessing.<br /><br />One problem is that there isn't a law against that reverse-defamation type of disinformation, ie telling flattering falsehoods (though I think there should be), and the modern BBC has apparently seldom regarded its remit (to inform rather than mis-inform and to educate rather than mis-educate) as being particularly binding. They also only have the slenderest grasp of the "to entertain" component, despite that being the only thing which genuinely seems to matter to them at all in their misguided ratings-chasing game. 2009-04-18T01:52:50+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?3569 Worst of all was the whole misguided quote along the lines of "Science doesn't claim to explain the big questions such as 'Where did we come from?' or 'Why are we here?' ... Therefore religion must be right." It takes some doing to distract me from a puzzle but this certainly managed it. 2009-04-17T17:54:12+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?3569 I saw the C.S. Lewis programme (although only half-watching it as I was doing a puzzle at the time). I loved the way the first half was hype, then they quickly explained the link with the planets, then they went "right, to hell with C.S. Lewis, here's some theology". The arguments were quite flaky at best. 2009-04-17T17:49:33+01:00 http://blog.min-data.co.uk/redr/?931 <a href='http://www.robsherman.com/advocacy/060401a.htm' title='An old one'>An old one</a> [robsherman.com] - damning rather than funny as such:<br /><br /><div class='md_quote'>Quote from <span style='font-style: italic;'>George W.Bush</span>:<br /><br />I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic.</div> 2009-01-11T10:51:02+00:00