The World According To Dan

Random photos, TV, politics and anything else that comes into view

Blogs I read

TMZ.com

Hudson Meek's Death Being Treated as Accident, No Foul Play Suspected - Actor Hudson Meek's death is being treated as an accident, and it doesn't appear substances played any role in the fall that took his life ... TMZ has lear...
FAIL Blog

Employee offers to fix store's computer, boss refuses and calls a professional, only to reach the same employee and pay X4 the rate: ‘You fool, I am the professional’ - There is something about having a hidden talent that just makes you… better than other people. And even though it is called a 'hidden talent', who doesn'...
Guido Fawkes

April: Police Investigate Rayner, Humza Resigns and Wragg Wrapped in Honeytrap - The heat remained on Angela Rayner, as weeks of Guido’s relentless coverage of her murky living situation finally forced the mainstream press to take not...
PoliticalBetting.com

Challenges - “They slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.” Those words from the poem, High Flight by John Magee, were said by President Reagan on th...
Iain Dale's Diary

Wishing Everyone a Happy Christmas - [image: Christmas] I’m working all over Christmas at LBC. In fact I only have one day off next Saturday. So do join me all this week and Sunday from 1...
Awkward Family Photos

Top Heavy - “My 9 year old daughter drew me a picture for my 40th birthday…at least my legs look good!” (submitted by IG @kerrinaomi) The post Top Heavy appeared fir...
Ben Charlton

Moving to the Hugo Static Site Generator - I finally got round to updating from my old 2006-era DIY static site generator Meek to hugo, which is much more flexible and has far nicer support for im...
FT.com Westminster

Markets latest: GameStop closes up 68% – as it happened - *All the latest as a wild week on Wall Street, which pitted Redditors against hedge funds, comes to a close.* Read more
There, I Fixed It.

Epic DIY Chainsaw Fails Video Compilation - It’s funny that you need a license to fish, hunt, own a gun, drive a car, and work as a manicurist a nail salon, but there’s no such requirement for owni...
Anna Raccoon

My campaign is bearing fruit. - Not sure if I can do this but I will do my best. The disease is progressing and today I have had my medication pushed up to 300 ml of Ketamine and 275ml of...
Radiac's Diary

Tagulous 0.12.0 released - Tagulous v0.12 is now available - it adds support for Django 1.10 and addresses several issues - see the changelog for full details. Note that this versi...
Chase Me Charlie

new look 6262, part 2 - So far it all seems to be going ok. I accidentally cut the back bodice piece a size smaller than I needed, but it still seems to fit alright so I’m not to...
Bagehot's Notebook

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Benedict Brogan

RIP Benny Green – the boy who brought black Britain to a generation of schoolkids - IT'S perhaps no surprise that the death of Terry Sue-Patt, the actor who played Benny Green in the BBC school drama Grange Hill, is one of the most-read it...
Cranmer

Canon Andrew White deserves a knighthood - He doesn't care about temporal honours, of course. You only have to hear the 'Vicar of Baghdad' preach, or take a few minutes to watch the above short fi...
Peace. Of. Analeigh.

It is a Sunday, and I wanted to find my disjointed thoughts in front of me. For me. - There was an old wicker bird cage, canary yellow, that sat on some unnecessary piece of furniture in a lovely, but unnecessary room we fittingly dubbed the...
Torah Club

A Simple Noahide - This is something I learnt during my die-trying seeking for conversion to Judaism. There is a beauty in Judaism that it does not require you to be Jewish...
Henry Porter

I'm off, but the struggle for civil liberties must go on | Henry Porter - With the new government promising to respect our civil liberties, I think now is a good time for me to bow out This is my last post for liberty central, a ...
The Carrie Prejean

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