“The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.  Beheadings, electrocutions, hangings, lethal injections, shootings and stonings have no place in the 21st century” – Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International. You’re probably not aware of it, but this morning, whilst you slept, some time around 02:30UTC; China executed a mentally ill [...]

Greetings to all of you, most of whom will be arriving via Twitter (praise be the tweet). Today, I have a most wonderful infographic for you, produced by yours truly. it’s 119540×700 pixels of distance-y goodness! I made it because I felt people didn’t quite appreciate the scale of the distances involved when it comes [...]

Just a short message for you. Christmas isn’t an excuse to be more wasteful. Keep recycling (or start if you don’t!), don’t waste materials or food, and don’t use more than you have to! Our carbon footprint is big enough the rest of the year as it is, so why not try to actually cut [...]

Finally got around to making the blog look a little more unique. Naturally this is achieved by adding Batman to every page. Anyway, I was actually lazy with this, it’s built upon the Retromania theme, hence in terms of layout it’s identical to before, just with new, blue and white colours.

It’s December 2009. A few weeks from now the year comes to an end, and with it, we usher in 2010, and the start of the second decade of the 21st Century. I could talk about all the things expected in this coming decade, and what it means for you and me, society, and humanity [...]