Monday 8 November 2010

Inappropriate metaphors

Here are the first two entries in my new collection of inappropriate metaphors.

When Galloway Forest Park was announced about a year ago as Britain's first official "Dark Sky Park" because it is so free from light pollution, Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham said the worldwide interest in the Dark Skies initiative would put the forest park "firmly in the spotlight".

Last week, a House of Lords committee was discussing the possibility of taking action against Google who had "inadvertently" recorded lots of personal data such as Wi-Fi passwords while driving around to add Street View images to Google Maps. Someone said that it was difficult to know what could be done as there was no clear legal precedent; in his words, "we are in uncharted territory"!

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