Monthly archives: January 2005

The National Audit Office can fuck off

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Apparently the benefits system is losing �3billion a year to fraud and errors. They can have my sympathy when they change the rules to stop punishing people who try to do the right thing and tell them about part time work. Those “We know where to find you” benefit fraud adverts really piss me off right now given that my local office is following moronic rules and thus isn’t allowed to find its own arse with either hand.

Note to whoever- if someone tells you they’re doing part time work then they probably aren’t trying to defraud you. Give them the benefit of the doubt and pay them the balance of their benefits based upon what they tell you, otherwise next time they won’t bnother declaring anything. They’ll be a benefit fraudster and you’ll be further out of pocket, all because some fuckwit wants documentation for everything before they’ll help someone who’s trying to help themselves.

Sorry if that got a bit incoherent, but I’ve had my benefit frozen since November because the JSA people want every single payslip for a job that pays a maximum of forty quid a week and can’t get it through their thick skulls that such a low paying job is exactly the type that employers won’t waste money to post out documentation for. (Plus the department that does payslips is in the University Union and I’m working for the Northern Campus UMIST and paperwork just seems to disappear [read: never gets sent] between the two locations.)

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The fairy king of fairyland

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What an appropriate headline, given that I’ve spent the last two days drawing a Frightened to Death by Fairies image.

George Monbiot presents another view of the Chimp’s new rules of journalism. I still get Americans repeating the “liberal media” lie to me based upon one or two newspapers adrift in a sea of corporate interests and self censorship.

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Windsave

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A “Personal Wind Generator” that can save up to 30% of a household’s annual electricity bill. There are grants available to pay for them as well. A wind turbine, even a small one, is quite high visibility. I don’t think it would be an option for a rural location like Mum and Dad’s Eco House (but don’t quote me on that, I’m not designing it), but I imagine they could work well in the urbs and suburbs.

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The Pope must die

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Did Hitler plan to have the then Pope, Pius XII, kidnapped and whisked away to a German castle so that a new religion could be formed with Adolf worshipped as the saviour of mankind? That’s what recently released documents suggest, but others hint that they have come out at just the right time to distract from reports of Pius’ attitude to the Jews during and after the war.

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Kill your .tv

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Tuvalu continues to disappear under rising seas and, despite UN meetings about the problems of island nations, few industrial countries are willing to accept it’s due to global warming and greenhouse gasses.

“My memory is going as a little boy to visit my aunts on this beautiful island, with three houses and kitchens. Twenty-five people lived there,” he said. “Now of course those houses have all gone. It’s just sand.”

via Informage

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Phantom menace

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Zarqawi is so much better than WMD. He’s small, compact and mobile. He can travel from Falloojeh to Baghdad to Najaf to Mosul� whichever province or city really needs to be oppressed. Also, conveniently, he looks like the typical Iraqi male- dark hair, dark eyes, olive skin, medium build. I wonder how long it will take the average American to figure out that he’s about as substantial as our previously alleged WMD.

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Glaciing (that may not be a real word)

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Hungover and surfing the channels, random shit from casa Spinneyhead

How fast do glaciers move, and what affects it?

Visit the Cairngorms.

I really want to go canoeing again.

Who’s dirtier, Britney or Christina?

A new birthday checker

And would someone please kill the frog before it drives us to this.

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