Snowing again and I've got Wanda Wisdom on the headphones.

It's surprisingly snappy to use GPRS on my laptop. Even Gmail works nicely, and I was thinking that would suck up bandwidth and wouldn't be snappy. Even tunnels don't pose a threat. You still remain connected when you get out the other side (of course, you can't transfer while in the tunnel, but you don't have to dial up again when you get out - long TTL, I expect).

How about a little post from the train? I heart flat-rate GPRS.

I really don't get why Joystiq have a "today in Joystiq" post. Did someone not tell these bright sparks that RSS means that I can see your stories of the day without you having to manually point me to them? Along with adverts, this is yet another annoyance in their feed which is just millimetres away from being unsubscribed.

Om Malik on the CES: "corporate egos on show". I haven't heard anything that's interested me yet, though I haven't actively sought it out.

Awful Plastic Surgery is a blog documenting celebrities who fuck up their surgery. Scary stuff.

If you only read one story today, read how an anti-gay Southern Baptist pastor was arrested for soliciting a male prostitute. "I wanted to hook up with a rent-boy. Give me an hallelujah!"

Strategy Wiki is a GamesFAQ replacement that uses Wiki to build game guides. I'm gonna wait until they announce their licencing before contributing.

MetaFilter has some funny links on fringe science.

Joystiq links to a family tree of portable gaming systems.

Setting the World to Rights is talking sense on David Cameron's new teenage slavery plan.

MetaFilter are discussing Celebrity Big Brother. It turns in to a Galloway-slagging match. Fun.

Guess who's now supporting Christian Voice? The British National Party. No, really. Woah.

The NCSE have reports of proceedings in the Selman appeal.

Michael Arrington links to dPolls and Pete Cashmore points to Quimble.

Kenneth Miller gave a talk at Case Western recently where he talks about ID and Kitzmiller. Get the streams and downloads over at Panda's Thumb (browse down the comments to find the latest mirrors).

BBC News are expecting that the cannabis reclassification decision will happen shortly. There's only one good outcome: they'll leave it how it is. Which, in the grand scheme of things, is bad. But it's better than them doing anything. The only problem with cannabis is the possibility of getting locked up for using it. The best thing this government could do would be to legalise it completely tommorow. Any politician standing in my local area who promised to legalise cannabis completely - and signed a legal document stating the fact - would get my vote, and the vote of everybody I herded to the voting booth. Instead, anybody who wants to change their consciousness has to risk their liberty doing so.

The Government have waffled on, since the Licensing Act, about wanting to cultivate a "cafe culture" rather than a happy-hour culture (I'll ignore the fact that, like community, the word culture is vastly overused). They want people to drink responsibly. You know what would make a big dent on that? Legalising Mary Jane would do a hell of a lot to help that. How many fights do you think the Amsterdam police have to break up in the coffeeshops?

David Cameron ought to get on with his promises. A Tory party who wanted to legalise drugs and cut back public spending. That would get me to the polls. We should totally ignore the UN and the WHO and traditional opinion. Cannabis must be legalised.

That said, the Tories now have RSS feeds and links to blogs by MPs, Councillors and other chunks of the Conservative movement. The Lib Dems also have RSS feeds but they don't really advertise them too well (Google for rss site:libdems.org.uk to see them - even searching on the Lib Dem website brings up no results). Labour, of course, have no syndication at all. Guess that pretty much sums up their attitude to things like Freedom of Information.

BBC News are reporting that David Cameron is planning to introduce a policy of community work for school leavers. A compulsory scheme. Kind of like getting a job, but you don't get paid. Kind of like studying, but you don't learn anything. Fantastic idea, Dazza. I'm just trying to think of a country which had mandatory community involvement for youngsters to produce a "new National Movement" and "[a]n essential part of growing up to be a British citizen". It was in Germany, and was very popular. Still can't remember what it was called. Perhaps this'll refresh my memory.

Oh, DeadBrain is funny today. "It's great to have Sir Bob on board, though not as you might have expected because of his possible appeal to the younger electorate - to be honest, 99% of them see right through his self serving antics... But having him around, with his incredibly grandiose delusions, colossal ego, and his hand wedged firmly up his own backside, does serve to bring back such happy memories of my days at Eton."