Today the inquest opened on the events surrounding Derek Bird’s killing spree in Cumbria.

On the BBC news tonight, reporting on the inquest, the following phrase was used…

Bird’s killing spree was outlined in detail for the first time

Now, how can you outline something in detail?

Yet another from the Daily Fail…

Organic vs. normal

Yep, in story one organic vegetables “aren’t as good for your health”, yet in story two “pesticides on fruit and veg interfere with male fertility”.

You’ve got to have some kind of admiration – and not necessarily positive admiration – for a ‘newspaper’ that can have two opposing viewpoints in two stories right next to each other.

David Attenborough…

David Attenborough

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. To which I reply and say “Well it’s funny that the people, when they say that this is the evidence of the Almighty, always quote beautiful things. They always quote orchids and hummingbirds and butterflies and roses”.

But I always have to think too of a little boy sitting on the banks of a rier in west Africa, who has a worm boring through his eyeball, turning him blind before he’s five years old. And I reply and say “Well presumably the God you speak about created the worm as well”.

And now I find that baffling, to credit a merciful God with that action.  And therefore it seems to me safer to show things that I know to be truth, truthful and factual, and allow people to make up their own minds about the moralities of this thing, or indeed the theology of this thing.

via Twitter today, I came across this awesome infographic about the true size of Africa by Kal Krause.

I’ve also uploaded it here, because it really is an excellent illustration of the size of Africa, compared to other major areas/countries.

The true size of Africa, copyright Kal Krause

Nabbed via @Mattverso on Twitter (and hosted originally on imgur), I think this is seriously cool…

Batman vs. Penguin

I love images like this, where you can turn them round and see something else. I can’t remember the precise name for them – but they’re cool as hell.

In a similar vein, the 20th Anniversary collector’s edition DVD of  Princess Bride was equally cool.

The lettering is the same both ways

Always nice to see when the Daily Fail gets to screw things up. (again)

In this case, they’ve managed to forget to put two photo captions in on one story. (This may have changed on the page by the time you look at it)

First example

Second example

Way to go, Daily Fail!