Grey on May 30th, 2008Short, Frightening Documentary about Photography in London
As someone who has been stopped, repeatedly, in London by the police for taking photos, this short documentary really hit home for me. The film maker is shooting pedestrian video shots in Oxford Circus when a police officer stops him. The officer shoves the man on camera then claims he didn’t. The […]
Grey on Jan 31st, 2008McDonald’s Can Award A-Level Diplomas in England
As if English education hadn’t been dumbed down enough, the government has awarded McDonald’s exam board status, meaning that the company can now start giving A-levels to students. For the non-English readers, A-levels are the school exams that children take at age 18. From the government’s perspective, McDonald’s is now on the same […]
Grey on Nov 12th, 2007Peoples’ Math Skills So Poor They Can’t Tell if They Won the Lottery
In England the National Lottery recently introduced a scratch card game called ‘Cool Cash’. In the game you have to scratch off a temperature lower than the temperature a nefarious penguin has. The problem? Sometimes the penguin has a negative number and the general population doesn’t remember from year 6 mathematics […]
Grey on Oct 22nd, 2007Fake UFO Fools Local Residents
Linn Murphy, 51, made a three-foot fake UFO with blinking lights that he could fly via remote control. For three years locals of his town reported that they saw Aliens flying in the neighborhood, traveling many miles in a few seconds, leaving behind odd odors and dripping fire across the sky. Goes to […]