The World According To Dan

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

Blogs I read

FAIL Blog

29 Interview Memes for Job Seekers Fed Up with the Search - The interview process brings about a whirlwind of emotions. It's like buying a house. After sifting left and right through job postings, you finally find...
Guido Fawkes

MPs Skewer Menzies For Hostage Abduction Farce - After *The Times* revealed that now-suspended Tory MP Mark Menzies was in a hostage situation with “bad people” and forced Tory volunteers to send £6,500...
TMZ.com

Kanye West & Bianca Censori Drive Around L.A. Hours After Alleged Battery - Kanye West and Bianca Censori seemed to be in good spirits this week ... driving around L.A. in separate cars -- this just hours after a man filed a batter...
PoliticalBetting.com

1931 in reverse grows closer - The UK’s longest standing pollster has published their latest output and it is utterly grim reading for the Tories and Sunak. The lowest Tory share of in 4...
Iain Dale's Diary

Me and My Books - The Daily Mail runs a feature on Fridays called Me and My Books. This week they asked to contribute. Well, it would have been rude not to! WHAT BOOK… ...
Awkward Family Photos

Charmed - “At the Lakeside mall in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1985, I was lucky enough to meet a leprechaun.” (submitted by IG @alcorniv) The post Charmed appeared...
Radiac's Diary

Putting the fun in funeral - Welcome to Radiac's Guide to Death! My father died a few months ago, and as the last member of the family it's been my responsibility to organise his fun...
Ben Charlton

RTSP video from a Raspberry Pi (Zero) Camera using VLC cli - I think this is the easiest way to get reliable RTSP video out of a Pi Zero with a camera attached.
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...
Bagehot's Notebook

And then there were two - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt progress to the final stage of the Tory leadership contest
Anna Raccoon

A clattering of Jackdaws. - When we bought this house, we noticed that there appeared to be a pair of Jackdaws living in the chimney. We had to block off the chimney, so felt rather b...
Chase Me Charlie

i knit, therefore i am - The past few days have been pretty busy, so I haven’t had the time to sew. (I live in a very small flat, so getting my sewing machine & ironing board out ...
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

-