(and also for better sandwiches and bar-snacks for all)

The Internet should be a free and happy place. Unfortunately, some governments think otherwise and want to lock up anyone who says their country is a cruel, vicious bastard.

I rather like my country (Britain. Or Scotland, to be more accurate) for all its little problems. It’s nice here, the weather is interesting and no-one wants to throw me in jail for writing things like “The prime minister is a silly bum-bum” or “organised religion is stupid”. God knows what the Chinese government would think of that. I’m sure they’d find some sort of ridiculous issue with it.

And so, being totally ignorant when it comes to politics, and having only the vaguest knowledge of pro-democratic movements, I figured it would be worthwhile to mention this website, irrepressible.info, which seems to have a vaguely good plan to counter this whole thing. You too can publish little chunks of “Forbidden sites” to stick-it-to-the-man, as it were. Well, if you were a hippy, or something, you’d be sticking it to the man.

Otherwise, you can rest assured you’ll be doing your little part for making the internet a betterer and less oppressed place.

Check out this thing I did gone made for an online shop I help run.

It’s a lotta fun, it is

Flipper! Flash Flipbook

Yes. Yes indeed

Hello people of the world, welcome to another fruit filled and dangerously explosive episode of Neville’s Garden! Yes, that’s right. I’m here to stay and I’m not going away.

Damn straight

I’m quite looking forward to the release of The Da Vinci Code. Not because I think it’ll be a terrific film - it may well be, I don’t care. Neither is it because I want to see how the book has translated to the big screen - I’ve not read the book.

No, it’s because I take a curious, slightly sadistic pleasure in the fact that, yet again, a work of fiction (pulp fiction novel, The Da Vinci Code written by Dan Brown) based upon another work of fiction (pulp fiction novel, The Bible, written, changed and re-interpreted by countless thousands of people over the last two thousand years) is going to cause *shock* controversy! Undermining of beliefs! Mass hysteria! Resistance to the idea that maybe, just maybe, someone other than yourself could have another viewpoint on history!

Religious people aren’t crazy, they’re not ignorant, they’re not insane. They just seem that way, because of the ridiculous tenacity with which they hold onto their beliefs. Beliefs which they feel are threatened by a hollywood blockbuster based on (from what I’ve heard) a fairly standard paperback novel. Now that’s just silly talk.

This is like how I believe that tea is the greatest thing that has ever been made. Ever. I love tea, I drink it all the time. The fact that someone else might like coffee instead doesn’t really bother me. Oh wait, no, it does actually. INFIDELS! COFFEE DRINKING INFIDELS. They must all pay for their sins. Seriously, it’s that bad.