Blog Snippets

Graeme Edgeler has spotted a story about how the UK Tories’ tactics to defeat the Religious Hatred Bill were modelled on an episode of The West Wing.

Basically they publicly declared the vote was only a two-line vote meaning not compulsory to attend, but then secretly told their own side it was a three-line vote so they all turned up and won by one vote.

If they had not managed a win, then Rowan Atkinson could have faced prosecution for some of his former skits.

Samantha Burns makes the obsevation that “Blogging is like sex. You have to keep it fresh and interesting, or else everyone will get bored and move on.” 🙂

And back home the plagiarism issue between Jason Watson of Keablog and TVNZ’s Chris Harrington has been settled with a retraction and apology. Well done to both parties for not letting it drag on.