Archive for July, 2008

A tweak and an update of an old image to mark the House of Lords overruling Lord Justice Moses and Sullivan’s decision that the Serious Fraud Office had acted unlawfully in dropping the investigation into the BAE Systems slush fund.
More info here at Obsolete - “A victory for the arms dealers, the kleptocrats and the government.”.

NB If your viewing from my blog’s feed, the flash animation may not be visible so you may have to view it on my site - sorry- gremlins.
This is very much a draft and, considering the time taken, I’m a bit unsure whether to continue.
UPDATE - Yup, I’m bottling it, it’s not really worth continuing.
Checking with a couple of people, it’s obvious that some monitors display things the way I see them and others reveal differences in contrast which make the ‘face-swaps’ look too obvious.
The reason I thought I could do this in a reasonable amount of time was the darkness of the video which meant I could hide the shortcuts I was taking but it seems that I was wrong.

Due to the filesize, the sound quality is set to low and I’ve also reduced the number of posts on my front page for the moment.

On the day that David Miliband throws his school cap into the ring, this week’s Channel 4 News Image.

Update - New image later today is now live on Channel 4 News website here.

I’ll post a larger version on my site tomorrow.

As EDF whack up their energy prices, a little comment about Jake Ulrich, MD of Centrica, owner of British Gas from Frankie Boyle.
NB - This only works in Firefox, IE users will hear the damn thing at 5 times the correct speed.
I’ll try and put an alternative version up later.

more on the BBC iPlayer here.

I still can’t figure out why Scottish Labour use an English rose for their logo. Maybe it’s time for a change.

And, as I’ve pointed out before, maybe the Scottish Conservatives should adopt a bonsai tree to reflect their popularity.