Last Straw

‘No cred­ible evid­ence’ of Ira­nian nuc­lear weapons, says UN inspector:
The UN’s chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said today he had seen “no cred­ible evid­ence” that Iran is devel­op­ing nuc­lear weapons, reject­ing Brit­ish intel­li­gence alleg­a­tions that a weapons pro­gramme has been going on for at least four years.
Any­one sur­prised by this is just a fuck­ing plonker.

Elgato is a favour­ite com­pany of mine. They pro­duce USB TV tuners and the excel­lent EyeTV soft­ware for watch­ing and record­ing TV on a Mac. Today they released EyeTV for the iPhone, which let’s you watch live TV or record­ings on your iPhone via your Mac. As expec­ted the exper­i­ence is flaw­less. Now I can […]

I’m in Aotearoa New Zea­l­and for a couple of weeks and driv­ing about provided me with the great priv­ilege of catch­ing up with the sea of enlight­en­ment that is NZ talk­back radio, in this case the lovely Leighton Smith. Flip­ping through the chan­nels I just had to stop and listen to one of Smith’s callers complaining […]

John Tim­mer writ­ing for Ars Tech­nica:
If sci­ent­ists had to pick one area of sci­ence that’s most fre­quently mis­un­der­stood, evol­u­tion would prob­ably win the vote. It’s not simply the sea of mis­in­form­a­tion avail­able on the Inter­net (although that clearly doesn’t help); it also seems that a lot of people who accept the sci­entific evid­ence don’t fully […]

No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT government’s oppos­i­tion to a new bill that would make it a national crim­inal offence for any New Zea­l­and polit­ical leader to “plan, pre­pare, ini­ti­ate or execute an act of aggres­sion” in viol­a­tion of the UN Charter.
… when Wayne Mapp says he doesn’t want our for­eign policy to be sub­ject to […]

No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT gov­ern­ment giv­ing them­selves a pay rise dur­ing a reces­sion and refus­ing to jus­tify it.
It’s much the same situ­ation here in the UK. Politi­cians have a deep sense of enti­tle­ment and non-accountability when it comes to rais­ing their income and expenses levels, but are quite happy to spend mil­lions of […]

Bill O’Reilly being called out again out on what can only be described as his feeble fact-free attempt to paint Amer­s­ter­dam as a cess­pool of crime and corruption.

You can watch the ori­ginal Bill O’Reilly clip here, and the Roberwter’s first response here.
(via Rus­sell Brown’s Hard News)

John Siracusa’s in depth review of Snow Leo­pard, Apple’s latest upgrade to the Mac OS X oper­at­ing sys­tem. Always worth the read.