Wednesday, August 30, 2006
AAARGH!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Powerful evangelical churches are pressing Kenya's national museum to sideline its world-famous collection of hominid bones pointing to man's evolutio
Saturday, August 12, 2006
GI Who Exposed Abu Ghraib Feared Revenge
Here's anothe example, after the naming of an undercover CIA agent, of the Bush administration putting other peoples lives in danger, just to get revenge for being inconvenienced. There really is no end to the vile behaviour exhibited by Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush.
Read more at www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Sink and Swim.
koti.mbnet.fi/~soldier/...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Engrish
This is a flickr set of pictures devoted to English words popping up in inappropriate settings in Chinese adverts, clothing etc. There are some beauties.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Bed, bed, where is thy spring?
Google warns on 'unsafe' websites
This is good news, alerting people to malware can only be useful, if only there was a built-in virus scan on XP like the built-in firewall, I wouldn't mind getting emails from my parents-in-law. Despite clearing their computer out several times, and buying them anti-virus software ( they don't trust the free stuff), they never update it, and always open attachments from people they've never heard of 'In case it's important.' When my father-in-law suggested that people making viruses should be strung up, I said that it was just as much the fault of the computer owner if they haven't taken basic precautions to prevent spreading the virus. He gave me a peculiar look, and I haven't been asked to sort out his computer since.
Read more at news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/tec...
Doonesbury on Bush
This neatly encapsulates Bush's, and to a lesser extent Blair's method of argument, 'Do you want what I want, or do you want the end of the world?'.
A while ago, I got a questionaire from Charles Clarke asking 'Do you want the police to be able to do their job effectively, or do you disagree with Labour policy?'. I paraphrase slightly, but that was the gist of it. I think many people besides me must have complained about it, because a couple of days later I got a circular email apologising. Treating people like idiots always backfires in the end.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Over 450 reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon
I love it when things like this happen. Hundreds of people have written reviews of a gallon of milk on sale at Amazon.com Somewthing similar happened to a guy selling a car on Ebay a few months ago, he was pestered by hundreds of stupid questions, but replied to most of them, albeit in an increasingly tetchy way. www.amazon.com/gp/produ...
Saturday, August 05, 2006
The Shamless Ignorance of the American Right
This guy, Congressman Westmoreland, has done nothing at all in his period as a congressman, but co-sign a bill requiring the Senate and House of Representatives to display the ten commandments, yet when asked to name them, he hadn't a clue what they were. Honestly, it's grade A morons like this that make the rest of the world worry about America. We have our own morons in parliament too of course, but it is a struggle for me to think of any that are quite as 'special needs' as this Congressman Westmoreland.
Fame at last.
Friday, August 04, 2006
Mel Gibson Launches Rockets Into Israel | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
This is great, the first of many anti-Gibson satires I hope. I hate the way he's tried to wriggle out of his dangerous behaviour by saying he's 'wrestling with the disease of alcholism', as if he has no will power, and despite driving in a way that was likely to result in other people being injured or even killed was deserving of sympathy. The whole Jew-hating thing is exactly what we've come to expect from a man who has rejected the second Vatican Council as deviating from the word of god. The Jews killed Jesus, the Jews are Evil, is basically his belief. Never mind the fact that Jesus said that the second coming would take place within the lifetime of those he was talking to.
Matthew 16:28 'Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.'
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Atheist Quotes
Here are a whole load of one liners to use when smugly dissing your religious friends, my favourite being
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do..And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you.
-George Carlin