Not just Howard's End

As we consider the Tories' policy to exempt certain people from certain parts of the human rights act as they see fit, let us look briefly at the Labour party's record on human rights. This includes:
* removal of trial by jury in certain cases;
* allowing the Home Secretary to decide who can be under indefinite arrest without charge;
* since that particular law didn't get through, they can only be held under house arrest, tagged and banned from using the telephone;
* imminent plans to ban protesting on Parliament Square without a permit;
* instigation of a politically elected supreme court;
* did I mention ignoring legal advice on sending thousands of troops into war?
These people have no shame: they want to disenfranchise us.

Ain't nobody here but us chickens

All right, so it's not going to make force feeding geese and ducks any easier (that still needs to be done by hand), but the Bright Coop E-Z Catch Harvester certainly appears to make chicken retrieval easier. Take a look at it in action.

I want one of these

This is über-geek kind of stuff: a wrist-watch PDA. All right, so it's not in colour and there's no wi-fi, but you can run all sorts of applications on its 8MB memory: an AvantGo web browser, Vindigo movie guides, possibly Documents to Go (for reading Excel, Word and PowerPoint) as well as the usual diary and address book and memo stuff. Plus games, and tube-maps and all the rest. Take a look.

Lost in translation

Luis Aragones, manager of the Spanish national football team, has been taken out of context and mistranslated. "I used the expression 'black shit' when I was talking to Reyes, as a way of saying you are better. It is like a form of motivation. [...] If it had been translated correctly it would have said that Henry was a phenomenon, but it wasn't," he added.