Until now, I had never taken notice of The Mark Thomas Product website, but it’s worth a look.

For anyone outside of the UK, Mark Thomas is probably best described as a tame Bill Hicks crossed with a slim Michael Moore.

40 years ago today, boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay), aged only 22, shocked the world when he stopped the heavyweight champion Sonny Liston after six rounds in a display of pure theatre.

If you’ve ever seen footage of Ali in action, it comes as no surprise that he eventually became known as The Greatest.

Windows XP, in a Windows XP carboard box.

Found on Martin Little.

Taken today with my phonecam.

I’m not the biggest fan of Scary Duck’s weblog, but his recent entry about working life at the BBC is very good indeed:

“So, who do you trust? A BBC that makes mistakes every now and then, or a rabid print media in the hands of a few millionaire businessmen that can lie and distort on their front pages and never have to take a word back; whilst spoon-feed stories by political spin-doctors?

“For 116 quid a year you get eight TV channels, five national radio networks, separate networks for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with their own language services. Local radio. The world’s best web site. Your taxes buy the world’s most listened to radio station. I know who I trust, and I’m proud to work for them.“

The results of a national survey into the use of supermarket disabled spaces has shown that an average of 21 percent of spaces are being abused by people without a disabled badge.

Unfortunately, the system of disabled (and child-and-parent) parking spaces in UK supermarkets is not officially regulated under the Road Traffic Act (1991), so the decision of any individual to make use of a disabled space is entirely based on their own conscience and carries no penalty or consequence for misuse.

Simply ‘naming and shaming’ people who abuse disabled spaces at supermarkets over the public-address system isn’t good enough; the offending indivduals need to face the threat of sanction.

Two weblogs I’ve encountered today thanks to the wonderful Technorati:

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and

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Keep an eye out for both making an appearence soon on The Copydesk’s recommended bar.

As mentioned last week here on The Copydesk, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie has been refused access to an un-broadcast BBC documentary about the construction of the Scottish Parliament building.

Today’s Sunday Herald exclusively reveals, that Fraser believes the evidence could be crucial in answering why the Holyrood project ended up two and a half years behind schedule and £350 million over budget.

Given the BBC’s co-operation with the Hutton inquiry, argues Fraser, the same courtesy should be offered in this instance.

However, the acting BBC chairman Lord Ryder has replied by saying that there are “clear differences” between the Fraser and Hutton inquiries; with the Hutton Inquiry, the BBC itself was under scrutiny – whilst the Scottish Executive are being examined in the Holyrood Inquiry.