While browsing the 'Have Your Say' section of the BBC (yes, yes, generally a bad idea, I know) I stumbled across this on the topic of the Scottish Parliamentary elections and spoiled votes:
"The voting form for the Scottish Parliament was appallingly badly designed. The only instruction at the top of the form said "You have two votes" - which might have meant one in each column, as intended, or two in each column (as evidently it was interpreted by many), or two in one or other column.
R Byrne, St Andrews"
O_o
In the interests of making this slightly more educational:
Ape gestures 'show human links'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/
hi/sci/tech/6610447.stm
...apparently. In general there's nothing screamingly wrong with the article, though I did think that the following paragraph was a bit daft:
"And when apes gesture, they use their right hand, which is controlled by the left side of the brain - the same side as the language control centre in the human brain."
Hooray for the popular media!
If Jack Bauer was put in a room with Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Nina Myers and handed a gun with two bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.
