Nick Jordan

NewsBiscuit: Refugees from Congo Civil War ‘more angry about Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand’. Nothing I’ve seen or heard puts the current furore over Ross and Brand into perspective better than this. The prank was stupid and they should have known better but there are more important things happening in the world. Besides, the sheer quantity of coverage of this has become deeply irritating, at least to me. Can we forget this and go and solve some real problems now? It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of them.

I saw this in a kitchen cupboard in a church hall yesterday. I have a mental image of some poor little kid being deeply traumatised by it.

I’ve just been introduced to We The Robots via Metafilter, and have spent a happy time reading the archives and chuckling to myself. It’s clever, witty, tragic and just plain damned funny. This is one I shall be reading regularly.