Ed Dowding

Month: March 2011

Radiation Dosage Chart

Country Man

It only takes a generation to redefine normal.

Bullshit doesn’t get much more insidious than this: Today the first ID cards that include iris and fingerprint biometric information were registered and issued in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.   The juicier part of the story is that for now, only children will be enrolled in this national biometric database. It is intended that ...

Link round-up

£3m Community energy fund divesting funds British Gas is committed to distributing £3m via the energyshare fund to community renewable projects over the next 3 years. energyshare really wants to hear from all types of communities across Britain. A registered community group can apply for up to £100,000, and all they ask is that projects: ...

My MP strives for growth

My MP strives for growth, quite possibly by selling your medical data to the pharmaceutical industry: The Department of Health should examine how to unlock the value of the UK’s goldmine of patient data – the holy grail of modern biomedical research worth billions to the Pharma industry. He’s also keen to invest in road ...

Tidy your room planet or else there will be no pudding Maldives.

A great piece from David Mitchell on the messaging around climate change. Why can’t we just dispense with all the talk about how wonderful it’s going to be and the opportunities for fun which await and say: Look I like driving cars and taking planes and eating strawberries at Christmas, but we’re can’t do it ...

Skipping dinner

I went skip raiding last night around the back of Waitrose with a friend who lives locally.We thought we’d go see what’s thrown away and liberate some meals from the tragedy of landfill. It’s illegal, but as an imaginary legal team suggested, “being immoral is clearly worse than being illegal.” We parked around the corner ...

Masters of the Universe

and a bonus one, because it’s an interesting thought: