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Fresh Squeezings From the veins of the Internet

• Alan Johnson's Nutt Sack is still causing ructions. Nature has a particularly scathing article on it, in which they say that Britain's politicians can't cope with intelligent debate. Ben Goldacre's post today is also illuminating. I choose to take some hope from the fact that Lord Drayson has broken cover on this, though.


• How you react to problems with gadgets may be partly determined by gender. I'm posting this simply because it's one of those rare things where I fall down on the female side rather than the male. If something goes wrong with a gadget I own, I will read the instruction book and google before I start asking other people to help.


• Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People looks like it's going to be awesome again this year. Sadly, there's not a cat in hell's chance I'll be able to go.


• Pope-shits-in-the-woods news: many of the games on facebook and myspace are there to fleece you of money. Is anyone actually surprised by this?


• Moonbat has an interesting column today. I would insert the word "alone" in the title, though.

And today's meme is a bit of shameless self-promotion:

I'm starting the polls on Monday, so if you have ideas for nominations for my blog awards, go and nominate people now!

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