Indeed. To put this in further context, the Daily Mail ran an article titled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" in the 1930s.

I'm still confused over how he's going to excise the homosexuality from the script. The book is terrific, but a great deal of the plot covers alterations in social mores, sexuality in particular. I suppose that angle could be covered in other ways, but it's certainly going to be nothing like the book. On the other hand, I can't imagine whichever studio is behind this allowing him to leave it all in, intact. Wouldn't appeal to their target market.

The way that people parrot Quantum Theory at the moment (in an attempt to explain anything vaguely unexplained) has parallels with the Victorian reliance on the Luminiferous Aether.

This thing is hard-wired and scoops everything, and the vast majority of people who are targeted won't even realise it's happening. I think it's considerably worse than what google gets up to.

There's not a great difference between that and the way that papers will alter their headlines based on stories that are popular with other papers. And the papers are probably using google's various tools to do similar things. At the end of the day, it's public information. News broadcasters do the same thing when deciding which stories to run with.

The real story here is how the agency obviously thinks it can frighten ISPs into giving them a free ride, by invoking the dreaded paedo-bashing tabloids. Pretty shabby behaviour.

That game was absolute class, I won't hear a word said against it. I got it out and played it on the emulator a month or two ago. It's still excellent.

You are neglecting to mention my very favourite sea-bird: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Shag

The Wikinews articles on the Scorpions fiasco should give you a good idea. Most of them were listed there. Thank heavens I left Virgin Media last year, what a shower.

This test may not accurately screen out people with certain particular personality traits, but it does select favourably for people with the intelligence to second-guess the answers required, or find them on the internet. That alone will cut staff turnover very effectively, at least for the sort of jobs described in the linked article, and unlike an IQ test, it covers intelligence, intuition, and initiative.

Shining flying purple wolfhounds show me where you are.

Exactly the same here! I would see my cat in the places that he used to sit. Very strange indeed, something odd going on there (in my head).