links for 2009-11-03

"One day many years ago, I was wandering around alt.forest.urban when I saw a mysterious thread. I followed the thread down a long, winding, very dark path...". Worth reading just for the illustration of the hart with the wifi antlers.

Mike Chubb: "After a great deal of thought i shall be undertaking a winterval uk project in the uk in 2009. any interested parties/sponsors should contact me. Let us create another urban myth festival to which all are accommodated and let us see the press/media turn in their ire whilst normal folks get great value for money".

The film is rubbish, this colour fad will never last, the budget is overblown and detracts from the story-telling, what was wrong with silent movies anyway etc etc. The Chris Tookey school of blockbuster film reviews was alive and well 70 years ago it seems.

I think the opening sentence makes the best point: "I spend quite a lot of time arguing with people on the Internet. You could say that this is a waste of time, though whether it’s more or less of a waste of time than playing 30 consecutive games of Freecell (which was how I used to avoid working before the Internet came along) is debatable."

So, when Stephen Abell says "The PCC provides help for thousands of people every year, free of charge. People who actually use the service tend to find that it works", I'm looking at the word *actually*. Does that mean that the 21,000 people who complained about the Moir article and who have been fobbed off by the PCC haven't *actually* used it as far as he is concerned?