My friend Jonathan alerted me to the Sense About Science campaign to prevent libel law being used to stifle scientific debate. Jonathan writes:

The broadcaster and science journalist Simon Singh is being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association as a resulting calling their remedies 'bogus'. There is a …

I've just released Polifesto. Everyone has read access, but you need an OpenId to make edits. I'd like to know what you think!

Polifesto is a wiki of political policies. Add new policies and edit existing ones to improve them. You can also rate the manifestos and policies.

Of course …

The poster says, 'Everybody's talking about it!' and people do still talk of it, so I thought I should see what it was all about. So Kazim and Liz came over and we watched Citizen Kane.

For me, the film is a morality tale. Its essence is revealed when Kane's …

New release of Imprimatur with the following changes:

* Changed so that a regex matches if it's found anywhere within the string.

Previously you'd have to use the pattern .*hello.* to match 'hello' within a response. Now you can just use the pattern hello to do the same thing.

* In regexes …

Yes, that's a good point. I've had a think about it and I suppose what I mean is that when someone copies something, you've still got it. But you're right, you lose the money you could have made if you'd kept a monopoly on it.

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I've visited the EU's election website (filled with dull and worthy headlines such as 'From One Legislative Period To The Next') seeking a list of the candidates standing in my area, and what their manifestos are. Not there. Ah, found …

On the 4th of June, I've got the Wiltshire Council elections.

My ward is Trowbridge Central, so I've got a choice between John Knight (Liberal Democrat) and Chris March (Conservative). Let's have a look and see what they say...

John Knight

Presumably he will follow A Liberal Democrat Vision for …

This is the font where my latest nephew was christened earlier on today.

I dreamt I started a new job writing software. They didn't have a computer for me, but eventually they found a really old 286 and an old-fashioned printer. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do the job working on such hardware. Nobody was very nice to me …

My house (and street) wasn't on OpenStreetmap (OSM), so I put it on there! I've got a phone running Android so I used the My Tracks app to record a GPS trace as I walked down the middle of the road along Yeoman Way.

Then I uploaded the trace to …