A couple of MP3’s online:

• Jonny‘s campaign to save his post office (via)
• A Green Day/Oasis/Travis/Aerosmith mix (via)

The Dalek kidnapped last week has been recovered.

A Dalek stolen from a Somerset tourist site has been found on Glastonbury Tor after thieves said it was “too hot”.
[…]
Cave owner Gerry Cottle made appeals for information. In the early hours of Tuesday, staff recieved a phone call telling them where the Dalek was.

Mr Cottle has denied that the theft of the Dalek was a publicity stunt.

Meanwhile, some excellent news from the land of the free:

Rules requiring Irish citizens to carry high-tech passports when visiting the US are to be dropped because the technology behind the scheme is seen as unreliable. The US Department of Homeland Security had previously set an October 2005 deadline for the inclusion of biometric information chips in the passports of European citizens who avail themselves of the Visa Waiver programme. This programme allows people to make short-term visits to the US without a visa. The chips would have included a variety of biological information about the passport holder, such as their fingerprints and retina scans.

But according to a report in the Sunday Times, Ireland has shelved plans to include biometric chips in passports amid expectations that the US is to abandon its biometric passport requirements.

Bang goes another justification from Big Brother.

After making some nit-picking comment at the weekend, I was told: “I don’t like pedantism.”

To which, of course, I replied: “I think you mean pedanticism.”

Which would have been a cleverer remark if the term weren’t “pedantry”.

Replacing the slightly unachievable previous pledge, there is a new anti-ID card pledge on PledgeBank which I recommend signing.

I’ve also signed a pledge from Brian Eno to promote the campaign for proportional representation.