Top school plans to fail boys with bad attitude One of New Zealand’s top high schools has introduced a tough new scheme in which junior students will be held back a year if they don’t do their homework, have the right attitude, turn up to school on time…
Sir Edmund Hillary died today. I had the privilege of having dinner with Sir Edmund (along with a few dozen other people, admittedly – it’s not like Sir Ed and I went out to Subway for a foot-long meatball sandwich) about a year ago – he told stories of his Everest…
FAA: Terrorists Could Hack New Boeing Jetliner Aviation regulators have refused to certify Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet until it redesigns its computer system to protect against … terrorists [using] the Dreamliner’s in-flight Internet system to connect to “systems critical to the safety and maintenance of the aircraft…
This One Laptop Per Child thing … I mean, I’m as much of a singularity-seeking technodork as the next guy, but really .. as far as I’ve read, these laptops are to be put into the hands of various children in dire circumstances around the world. How dire? Well the…
Can Atheists Be Parents? “In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes’ right to [adopt] the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the Burkes’ “high moral and ethical standards,” he said, the New Jersey state constitution declares that “no person shall be deprived…
NYE … Went to Soamesapalooza at Mary and Soames place – drank many Gin an Tonics, plus some Baileys[1]. spent the evening talking with friends. Drama level Zero. Possibly the most relaxed NYE I’ve had in a while. Totally fantastic. WOULD DEFINITELY DRINK WITH AGAIN AAAAA++++ HAIL SATAN [1] I’…
I’ve not posted in a while – mostly, I think, because I am Sick with The Lurgy and I don’t really want to update daily with “HEAD STILL FULL OF UNWANTED LIQUID LOLZ” and “ROFL THE PAIN WHEN WILL IT END -O_o/- SERIOUSLY KILL ME”. Sudafed appears…
Deaf demand right to designer deaf children “DEAF parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf child over one that has all its senses intact, according to the chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (RNID).” How…