Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

Discovered on Wikipedia whilst writing yesterday’s post:
Bob the Builder is a children’s television character created by Keith Chapman and inspired by the Kafka short story, ‘A Departure’.
If only it were true.

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This could happen to you:
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Mock Pity the poor Children’s Secretary Ed Balls this week for he has been subjected to two web-based attacks.
First up is the flash game A Kick in the Balls. Inspired by reports that Jack Straw threatened to punch Brown’s protege, it’s a fantastically satisfying, if very simple, beat-’em-up (hat-tip: Shane Greer).

Following hot on its heels, [...]

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Politics Home, the successor to my former employer 18 Doughty Street, launched today. The site is essentially a news aggregator, bringing together the disparate news stories from around the country to one site. Its unique selling point is the PHI100, a poll of one hundred political insiders on various topical issues. As I’m sure it [...]

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April Fools (I think I’m surprising no-one with this, right?)
Other pranks being played around the web:

Gmail’s new “Custom Time” feature.

The BBC flies some penguins.

Lib Dem Voice reveals Labour’s new family and immigration policies.

Andy Mayer on the Electoral Commission’s new requirements.

Boris to do PMQs tomorrow: Guido Fawkes. Is it wrong that I really want this to [...]

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The Byron Report, on children and the internet has come up with this piece of Venn diagram pseudo-analysis that looks like it’s come straight out the mind of Chris Morris, the genius behind Brass Eye and The Day Today:

It would seem that we now live in a truly post-satire age.
The front page also [...]

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Wikileaks, the confidential document provider that has played host to such things as the Northern Rock briefing paper for private investors (which, of course, the public are not allowed to see), was stripped of its normal URL by a judge in the US last week.
Far from letting that deter it, the site is now up [...]

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Following up on the earlier post about the BNP and their dominance of the political internet traffic, another interesting excerpt from the politics and the internet report by the Centre for Policy Studies:
"Worst of all, say the critics, is the style of debate that this new arena fosters. The blogs are good at trashing things [...]

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Thank you BBC, thank you. Now if only you could allow me to download programmes in Firefox, all would be good in the world.
That is all.

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Unfortunately she’s not been reinstated (full details here), but her website is now back up and running, so you can listen to those spoof announcements in full.

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