Er, whatever you say there, Swen. Glad to know someone is still watching.

Hop David illustrates and animates some theorems about conics.

Government and the godawful greatest generation: Bob Smith traces a cluster of social ills to veterans’ benefits post 1945. (Link updated 2006.)

Statesman or Skatesman?

I found a fantastic picture of Enoch Powell MP on a pogo stick, and so decided to write to a load of MPs and Peers, to see whether any of them had ever been on other forms of children’s locomotive toys (ie Skateboards, Roller skates, Space Hoppers etc etc.)

Much to my amazement over 80 of them responded, including three Prime Ministers, five Chancellors, six Foreign Secretaries, four Home Secretaries, and three Speakers of the House of Commons.

(Link from B3ta)

Somebody posted one of my Doodles to a board in Thailand and I don’t know anyone who can translate the text there. Boo hoo.

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(The telephone is in Uruguay.)

Maria Farrell relays the story that eight prisoners at Gitmo are begging not to be sent ‘home’ to Russia. History repeats?