Seen yesterday in a short story by Doug Hawes: How strange that only one room in my house is called the living room: what do I do in the rest of it then?

Amnesty International have released their annual report on global human rights covering 2003. (SeeAmnesty International Report 2004).

W I L D L A N D S : Komodo. Rather them than me getting the camera in place.

Lynne beats me by an hour or so to posting about Wildlands at Lynne Taylor: On good news…. I’ve just been listening to the interview by Linda Clark on National Radio with James Frankham about his virtual documentary visiting the wild places of the world and documenting them real-time so people can experience (virtually) those…

Jon Reid’s posted a thoughtful piece about Iraqi prisoners and the monster lurking inside each of us over at blog one another: The Monster at Abu Ghraib. Definitely ++ Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. ++

Just read Culture Watch – Bob the Builder. My simple faith in Bob and the gang deconstructed in a few minutes of reading. Bob’s relationship with his workforce of machines has also prompted much discussion as to the socio-political leanings of the programme.  Is Bob representative of the entrepreneurial ideal of capitalism, as he monopolises…

Sometimes you read stuff on people’s blogs and it fits in really well with other things going on in your life. I was preparing a lecture on human sexuality last week and both Maggi Dawn and Paul Fromont posted things that helped tie some loose ends for me. Maggi’s posting, Honesty, part ii, contained a…