Category Archives: balance

A thorny issue: transcripts and intellectual property

Posted on May 22, 2021 by pendantry

The story so far Forty-two§ days ago, I wibbled about the upcoming Towel Day, in a post that featured a video interview of Richard Dawkins talking about Douglas Adams — and the transcript I’d (laboriously) made of it. Goldie left … Continue reading →

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Happy World Bee Day!!! 🐝

Posted on May 20, 2021 by pendantry

Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
This is a re-post of the one I wrote last year for World Bee Day, but some of you haven’t yet seen it, others may have forgotten it, and it says everything I would…

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Defeating the list block walloftext problem using CSS

Posted on May 15, 2021 by pendantry

Addendum 09Aug2021:I submitted a bug report via GitHub back in Feb2021 related to the problem I noted below about an aspect of the aberrant behaviour of the block editor in certain situations: Inline CSS is lost in a List block … Continue reading →

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What really happens to your plastic recycling?

Posted on May 1, 2021 by pendantry

Many of us spend time carefully sorting our recycling. But what actually happens to the plastic waste we put out for collection? Greenpeace UK enlightened me on this subject a short while ago. There’s no WordPress ‘reblog’ button on their … Continue reading →

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Green Party 10-point climate plan

Posted on April 27, 2021 by pendantry

Blatantly stolen from the Green Party 10-point climate plan: This is what real climate ambition looks like The Green Party has been proposing radical and necessary action on climate change for the past three decades. We were talking about these … Continue reading →

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UK government: please introduce charges on carbon emissions

Posted on April 17, 2021 by pendantry

tl;dr Air pollution kills 64,000 people in the UK every year, yet the Government provides annual fossil fuel subsidies of £10.5 billion, according to the European Commission. To meet UK climate targets, the Government must end this practice and introduce … Continue reading →

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Think before you thank?

Posted on April 10, 2021 by pendantry

Research in 2019 by expert survey consultants Censuswide, commissioned and publicised by OVO Energy, revealed that more than 64m ‘unnecessary’ emails are sent every day. One result of this is the emission of nearly 23,500 tonnes of additional carbon, in … Continue reading →

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Who wrote the song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”?

Posted on April 7, 2021 by pendantry

There’s a famous song, written in 1988, that begins, “Here’s a little song I wrote”. I believe in giving credit where credit is due; here’s a miniquiz…. What was the name of this song’s writer? (a) Bobby McFerrin (1950–) (b) … Continue reading →

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“Believe only half of what you see and none of what you hear”

Posted on March 27, 2021 by pendantry

The Internet tells me that the idiom “question everything, especially rumors [sic]” can be traced back to ‘The Proverbs of Alfred‘ (mid-twelfth century), which are ascribed to King Alfred the Great (c.848-899). Clearly, the concept has been around for a … Continue reading →

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Petition for a UK national citizens’ assembly (PR2028)

Posted on March 24, 2021 by pendantry

Update 28Mar2021 (current signatories: 20,317): I’ve just had an email from Open Britain requesting donations to the PR2028 campaign. I’m chipping in a few quid a month; I think this matter is too important not to. Whether you agree is of … Continue reading →

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