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Anthony Baggett, the developer of my lovely Darkwater WP theme, has had one of his themes ripped off by none other than Gordon Brown, Prime Minister.
If you look at the bottom of my blog you’ll see a link to Anthony’s website. This is part of the Creative Commons 3.0 licence, which means that under the terms of use that link has to be there whether I modify the theme or not (I have as it happens). This attribution has been removed from the No 10 site.

Anthony’s been in touch with the developers, New Media Maze, but he says “it hasn’t gone well”.

EDIT 21/08/08: The developers have responded to the allegations here.

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Two Galway-related blogs I’ve only just come across are the Moore Group’s and Julian Gough’s. They’ve both been around for a while by the looks of it but I only found the Moore Group’s one from a trackback on Damien’s, which led me to Julian’s. Both subscribed to now.
Have a read of the Moore Group’s excavations of Eyre Square and the centuries old skeletons they found there.

Also best of luck to Jazz Biscuit.

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Photo: Galway Advertiser.
Galway Circus Project was destroyed last week by joyriders crashing into the back of Karen’s van, which then caught fire.
I’ve known Karen for most of the time she’s been in Galway and circus and clowning is her life. She dedicated a huge amount of time and personal resources into establishing the project. Many kids have benefitted from her training over the years.
She’s had her livelihood destroyed by scumbags who obviously have enough free time to go joyriding at 6am on a Monday.
I’m really sorry Karen.

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Please spread the word. The planting of the memorial tree for Trent Keegan will take place on August 17 at 2pm on the green area at Palmers Rock on the Promenade. It is on the right side of the car park or the opposite side from where the memorial was held, for those who attended. Those attending are welcome to join for a few drinks at a to-be-decided location to honour Trent and his 34th birthday, which would have been on August 12.

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New Yorker, you’ve fallen flat on your face if you consider this satirical. There’s no gag, no slugline, no play. If you wanted to reference the terrorist fist jab you could have riffed on terrorists bumping fists saying, yeah I saw it on Fox, they called it a terrorist fist jab.
This is an EPIC SATIRE FAIL.
Found via Rick and Una.

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