Blog Bits
- Conservative Home blogs a UK poll that has Labour at 20%, and even lower at 17% for European elections – equal to the UK Independence Party.
- Lew blogs at Kiwi Politico that he left should stop treating the Maori Party as their enemy.
- Aaron Bhatnagar blogs that the $20,000 limit for contracts that can be signed without approval from the Transition Authority is a bit low. I agree $100,000 or so would be more sensible.
- Adam Smith has discovered the Obameter – tracking Obama’s campaign promises. To date of the 500 promises 29 have been implemented, seven compromised, six broken, seven stalled, 63 underway and 404 yet to start. We should have such a tool here.
- Eric Crampton is impressed that Wolfram Alpha knows the answer to “What is the meaning of life” is 42. I’m not surprised – after all geeks programmed it!
- No Right Turn supports a bill drafted by Charles Chauvel, in Lianne Dalziel’s name, that will end provocation as a defence. After the McNee case, I also support it ending.
- Farmgirl responds to the Mike King piece on sow crating, and says pig farmers don’t like doing it, but it is the only way to compete with overseas farmers who do.
- Iain Dale blogs a sign seen in a window in a Notting hill store – “No more than one Member of Parliament in this shop at any given time. — The Management.” – Heh I love it.
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May 18th, 2009 at 9:43 am
I hope its OK to add here Barnesly Bill ( http://barnsleybill.blogspot.com/ ) who has a link to one of the funniest things I’ve read in ages-
The IOWAHAWK and The Barack Obama celebrity Roast-
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/05/i-guess-you-had-to-be-there.html
The roast is hosted by ‘Shecky’ Ahmedinejad who says-
“this clueless pussy (Obama) is the biggest gift to international insult comedy since Neville Chamberlain. Holy dung, when we heard the infidels elected him, I almost had to shut down my nuke program. My scientists were laughing so hard they kicked over half of our centrifuges!”
“I called up Letterman, and I’m like, Dave how about a couple Obama zingers for the roast tonight? He’s like, “no, no, too controversial. Everybody loves him.” And so I’m like, how about if I just insult America? So he’s like, “yeah, sure, that’s fine.” ”
Raoster Vlady Putin
“Tank yous Shecky! Tank yous very much. Ho boy, it is good to be in America! I love America, is great country. It is land of free! Not like my country. In my country, whole government run by corrupt communist thugs. They ignore the laws. They take over companies and give the money to their friends. America is very totally different! It has 110 volt outlets.”
May 18th, 2009 at 10:30 am
“the answer to “What is the meaning of life” is 42.”
Tsk. It’s not the answer to the meaning of life, it’s the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. A much different proposition.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Note that Alpha parses the “meaning of life” question, as it does every question, saying what it thinks you’re really asking. For “what’s the meaning of life” it says “answer to life, the universe, and everything”. I found it more impressive that it managed the parsing then went on to do the Douglas Adams bit.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Wolfram Alpha is cute but useless. Try “biggest mushroom” for example. Or “fastest mouse”. It knows very little. (I used “mushroom” to see if it was going to be literal (a fungus) or lateral (a mushroom cloud). It failed altogether. Maybe one day it’ll have a large enough database – it’s early days yet.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
I’m with redbaiter – lets leave links to other worthy blog bits.