Today I received this email from a moderator on the BT Broadband forums:

Your recent posts titled: "Re: Internet Radio Bandwidth usage?" and "Re: How do I delete my account?" have been removed as they contravene with the Forum Guidelines.

New Humanist magazine has published some amusing "cut out and keep" trading cards (God Trumps), each focussing on religions (oh, and atheists and agnostics).  I particularly like the Scientologist card, especially as I am just re-reading Russell Miller's excellent 1987 biography of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard.  I also rather like the agnostic card!

The Register reports that the anti ID card campaigners No2ID have succeeded in their long standing aim to obtain samples of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's fingerprints.

Hot on the heels of announcing plans for draconian new communications monitoring Smith is taking forward the batty ID card agenda (first victims: overseas people, second victims: airport workers).  Now it seems a glass bearing her dabs has been "borrowed" and those precious prints preserved, presumably for some nefarious purpose.

A scary reminder of the 1958 movie The Fly, here's writer-illustrator Zina Saunders' (no relation) picture of the ghastly Palin. Check out her website for a some acute political art, and click on this thumbnail for the bigger image.

I think that's me in the lab coat.

Now, I have to admit that I don't frequent knitting blogs as a rule, but this is a cracker - spotted via Pharyngula, for more info, see the originating website.

One of the great things about the UK is that we don't have people of the calibre of Sarah Palin running for high office.  As light relief from the latest banking news, here is a flow chart which illustrates Sarah Palin's undoubted debating skills (original source blog).  For further entertainment, generate your own Sarah Palin interview.