links for 2008-08-17

I'm on holiday for a week next week, with absolutely no guarantee of any internet access whatsoever. The publishing should tick over, but don't expect any del.icio.us links, or for comments to be moderated and published.

"The Sun being the kind of newspaper it is, it''s difficult to tell whether this report is 100 per cent true or not". Matthew Ingram gives The Sun a generous benefit of the doubt

Awesome set of visualisations of travel distances in the Netherlands from Kars, but I have to say, without being mean, I was slightly misled by the title - there doesn't seem to be any time travel involved at all ;-)

"A number of stories have been released that are avaiable nowhere else (with the VHS releases now long out-of-print), like 'The Krotons', 'The Sun Makers' and 'Planet of the Spiders'". Unless, of course, you are in the UK, in which case you can bloody well make do with re-watching your scratchy old VHS tapes and repeats on UK Gold.

Don't tell me I'm going to get back to the Uk and find that it was easier to watch Premiership football over here...

Ah, you really can't win, can you, even if you are an Olympic champion. Some of the user comments praising them for achieving this despite not enough funding from the Government. Some of the user comments saying it is about time we got value for the money wasted on them by the Government. And a couple chipping in from down under to point out that relative to population size, Australia and New Zealand are doing much better! [Bonus point if you spot the comment from someone saying they don't support Team GB because it is too politically correct!]