| Author | Message | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Milk Lorry Destroys Three Houses" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/03012007/356/milk-lorry-d estroys-three-houses.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"God Told Me Of 'Mass Killing' in 2007": http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/01/02/robertson.pre dictions.ap/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Killer dog owner 'was drugs dealer'" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/03012007/344/killer-dog-o wner-drugs-dealer.html Woah! I bet he was gay, left-handed and his eyes were too close together too! | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
According to this rather badly composed photo, he certainly has tiny little woman's arms and a fur trimmed shell-suit... 2007000564%2C00.jpg,http://images.thesun.co.uk/pic ture/0,,2007000564,00.jpg | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
Hmm. That didn't work, did it? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
This? http://tinyurl.com/ygycj3 (URLs with double commas in them seem to confuse discus) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
First utterly indispensible invention of the year: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/vid eo-high-tech-north-face-endurus-xcr-boa-shoes It's like, shoes, right? But with a knob ... | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
>>This? That. Thanks! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Unidentified Goat Found." Not too much happening in Pittsburgh, then: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/07002/750679-100.stm ?89 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
>>You never know what you're going to run across in the middle of the big city. Like, say, a goat. Actually, when I was young my mother and I were followed to school by a goat. This was in Islington. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
You've got to be kidding!! Boom-boom!!! I know, I know ... | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
Baphomet! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
We should go with a new shower accessory in '07 - the Baphomet bath mat. Cleanse that outer dirt, then trample your favourite infernal deity firmly underfoot. Available in: Hell Red, Brothel Pink, K-Hole Bad Trip Moire. Buy two, and get the Bono bog brush free. Your Salvation: Our Pleasure. | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
Don't you mean the Bath-o-Mat? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not to mention the Lucifer Loofah. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
>> Lucifer Loofah Sounds like a forgotten flower power hit of the 60s. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Cue the perm! Cue the stripey troos! Cue Syd Barrett! "An uncouth youth-a/Used the lucifer loofah -" | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"He told me, 'Get in the car, mate/'Cos I'm feeling incarnate -' " Anyone put me in touch with Roger Waters? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Alternatively: "In-a-luci-fer-loo-fah, baby - don't you know I'm in luuuuhve with you!" | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Just sign here, kid. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not headline, but picture of the day. All our troubles are nothing more than this: http://www.bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.htm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Astonishingly; "Conservatives are more likely to be religious. Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music." More findings from the eerie world of "professional psychologists" here: http://psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term =pto-20061222-000001&page=1 | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
"US air raids target suspected Al-Qaeda hideouts in Somalia" Why does America's every foreign policy act look like permanent heartless lunacy? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
It's probably something to do with the highly trained operatives at the heart of its military machine - troops of steel and inhuman bravery, who know nothing of fear and watch little but "Top Gun": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4WjTO-mnns | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Creator of Scooby Doo dies, aged 81" http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/artic le2140273.ece And if it hadn't been for Iwao Takamoto, and that fucking dog, I'd have got away with it too! | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Sorry dude! No hard feelings after whale hits boat" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/10012007/80-132/sorry-dud e-hard-feelings-whale-hits-boat.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Fantasy Coffins From Ghana" http://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/15/fantasy-coffin s-from-ghana/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
That's it. I'm going to the grave in a giant wah pedal! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
More Newspeak from Airstrip One: Blair describes "our" situation in Iraq as an "absence of victory." http://tinyurl.com/y5lndl | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
I like the current conjunction on the BBC News front page of: "UK 'must continue to fight wars'" and "Man cleared of 'revenge killing'" | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Also on BBC, there's: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/12012007/344/jowell-rejec ts-bbc-collusion-claims.html Well of course she didn't! Honestly, the things some folk imagine, eh? Anyway, Tess: how's his trial going in Italy? You poor lamb, etc. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But, enough cynicism. Time for that Friday feel-good feeling: "African Lion Kisses, Hugs Woman Who Saved It" Load the video! http://www.local6.com/spotlight/10726779/detail.ht ml | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Then Something Went Horribly Wrong." You bet! Savage. Unnatural. Hunter S. Thompson, thou shouldst be living at this hour ... URL/Tiny URl doesn't work here, so go to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Open "Books" (top menu); then read the OJ feature. If The Other Simpsons don't do a version of this, they're missing a comic goldmine. | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
"Half-brother and former head of revolutionary court executed." I don't know if it's the 'half-brother' bit or the 'former head' that has me laughing and weeping at the same time... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Wealthy Man Chooses Heirs From Phone Book" http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=29&art _id=iol116868618930H620&set_id=1 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But, wait - they've just missed the latest comet. Haven't they ..? http://webspawner.com/users/godsgatesorg/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"France and UK considered 1950s 'merger'" http://tinyurl.com/y6ypns | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Great story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6259367.stm But extraordinary, "omigawd I'm up against deadline" comment: Shawn is "much bigger than the pictures on the missing posters." Bet he's not flat, either. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Good Morning, Mrs. Shameless" http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_articl e_id=33172&in_page_id=34 It had to be an Alan Partridge-type story from Norwich, didn't it? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"I was thinking: “Whatever is going on?”." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Empty Space with a vengeance: Jonathon Cainer informs all us Leos that 2007 will be governed by "the comet of destiny," and that there's "an historic alingment with the Galactic Centre." Cripes. One thinks of Kepler, no? http://www.cainer.com/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Male Panda Too Fat to Have Sex" Zoo staff "have held a mock wedding, announced plans to separate the two to spark a little romance and even talked of introducing panda porn - videos of other pandas mating - to get the pair in the mood." Right ... http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0116Pand aSex16-ON.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Smile! You're in the 21st century! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6270871. stm | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
More cause for smiles: 'Ad Nauseam' "When Dateline NBC recently asked children to choose between a banana and a rock with a Scooby-Doo sticker on it for breakfast, nearly all chose the rock." http://www.motherjones.com/news/exhibit/2007/01/ex hibit.html | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
That panda stroy reminds me of the line from Fight Club: "I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species..." *sigh* | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I think there was a cook book in the days of the British Empire, which treated them as a delicacy: you shot the poor creature - but then were told to throw most of it away, as the recipe only required the paws. *Contemplates trying to stuff large, mutilated bear carcase into standard UK wheely bin* I dunno. Maybe you could recycle it, or something ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Metro is spoiling us today with: "Drunk bulls disqualified from fight" "Police offer drunks taxi service" "Hunt for cigarette arsonist pigeon" "Council angry about dog shrine" "Panda too fat to have sex" "Drunk bum-flashing burglar jailed" But the prize goes to: "It's a two-faced, four-eyed pig" http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_artic le_id=33747&in_page_id=2 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, those Russians ... http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,2 1084549-5003401,00.html That final comment could only have come from Dostoevsky's homeland, I think. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And as for filth like this - I'm ashamed to be human: "Man Arrested For Asking To See Girl's Foot" http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-li foot0118,0,4794666.story?track=mostemailedlink | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Study Blames 'Car Karma' For Accident Rate" http://autos.canada.com/news/story.html?id=d823565 b-be1e-4b0b-bec8-cf9d32730a68 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Blood! Use MORE BLOOD! Aghhhhhh - " Another story HST should have lived to cover: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070119/od_uk_nm/oukoe _uk_swimmer_amazon | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Flying dinos had bi-plane design" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6287367.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Afghan opium 'could be used in NHS'" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/23012007/344/afghan-opium -used-nhs.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Threat or treat, though? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Wanted: People Who Helped Bury Plymouth" But not what UK readers might think: http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070122/D8MQJF204 .html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Psychologist 'Forced Bulimic to Wear Dog Collar' " http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21107363-1245 ,00.html - and much else. But somehow, I can't help feeling the doctor's surname was a Freudian shoebomb just waiting to happen. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Boy's Shouting Kills 400 Chickens" http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&new sid=38471 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
And that same reputable source also informs us: "Cruise unable to convince Beckhams to join Scientology" http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newsid=38436&newst ype=local&PHPSESSID=656fc87d965c976fd318166e243555 41 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
That, despite - 4-2007030603%2C00.html,http://www.thesun.co.uk/art icle/0,,4-2007030603,00.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
This is more of a disappointing news item. The headline promises so much, but it turns out to be a rather boring footie story: "Mancini: Blues job would be fantastic" http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/26012007/1/mancini-blue s-job-fantastic.html | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
It just struck me. Headline of the Day III. We only have seven of them altogether so only four to go. It's like that Beckett line: "What time is it?" "Same as usual." How long is Day III anyway? "Ahhh. Another glorious day." | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
>>How long is Day III anyway? A blink of the eye of Vishnu. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Good news for a change - the world does have loads of nice people in it after all: http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2007 0128/INGHAM01/701280481 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Hospice Helped Dying Man Lose His Virginity" http://tinyurl.com/yusylv I can't decide: did he simply notice this stuff before anyone else, or is it really just Chris Morris's world - and we happen to live in it? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"The limp-wristed regulation of gambling won't work" http://tinyurl.com/2hd934 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, undoubtedly no dirty money were involved - so I say: hats off for this sensible decision, and put a pony on for me! Ahem. Obviously those ranch holidays and the free cowboy outfit weren't quite enough. I hope Mr. Prescott has bought himself some serious "insurance" - because accidents *do* happen, don't they Luigi ..? Never mind that pony. Horse's head, anyone? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
He's Here! http://tinyurl.com/2d9yup *Orders black goat from Waitrose* *Sets up altar in old bike shed* *Scares relatives with round robin in green ink - "I will not be sending Christmas cards ever again, because -" * | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Schoolyard Penis Seen From Space" It *is* C. Morris's world, etc. http://tinyurl.com/yubgbb Choosing my words with care, it's hardly an outstanding feature, is it? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Astronaut in 'love kidnap plot' " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6333975. stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Two Hurt In Fresh Letter Bomb Blast" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/06022007/140/hurt-fresh-l etter-bomb-blast.html Opening shots in a gas guzzler terrorist campaign? Stick the lot of them in Guatanamo Bay! | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Is Angry Motorist Behind Letter Bombs?" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/06022007/140/angry-motori st-behind-letter-bombs.html Does the pope shit in the woods? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Man admits illegally burying dogs" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6368201.st m Sorry, I'm not about much at the moment. Property-owning grief. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But, hey - let's meet up in Liverpool! I want to see His eyes catch fire! http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_artic le_id=37188 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
What do you mean - "chary"? http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn1121 5-endangered-languages-encode-plant-and-animal-kno wledge-.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Depressing reading. M. Amis isn't "the greatest living English writer" - it's, um, Julian Barnes. http://tinyurl.com/3yw2yy Course he is, dear. Are they looking after you here? | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
I get a litte bit confused here: The greatest english writer is the greatest from England or writing in english?(Good trick to get out of the competition that Coetze geezer and that other Pynchon dude and whatnot) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Good point, Arturo: I think they were being provincial here, and saying "in England." Sad, isn't it? | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
The Guardian occasionally does the equivalent of crapping its pants - its opinions being informed by 1 year olds. Such is this occasion. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Meanwhile: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_techno logy/article2303022.ece Personally, shoes and feet don't light the blue touch paper. But it's a big world, and I'm sure there's room for all of us, etc. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
And on a religious note: 30200-1253156%2C00.html,http://news.sky.com/skynew s/article/0,,30200-1253156,00.html 'Titanic director James Cameron believes he may have discovered Jesus's lost tomb.' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I've never been up with all this. I mean, if you're a Christian, you believe Jesus rose from the dead, so the tomb's irrelevant. And if you're not a Christian, the tomb doesn't matter to you, any more than Buddha's footprint or Muhammad's retreat on Mount Hira gets singled out for reverence by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Or maybe it's identification. After all, James Cameron = JC ... We can only wait and and wonder. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
It'd be an interesting one for theologians. If it *is* the grave and the body is in there, that would suggest that his divine nature and human nature were distinct, and that would also draw a line under the docetic position. However if there's no body and a note saying "back in ten minutes, JC" then the orthodox position is coherent. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
... Or maybe He's still flapping around in there, like a bee in a bottle ..? | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
>> He's still flapping around in there Cracked open a few beers and watching the telly. Enter James Cameron. 'Fuck me, is that the time?' etc. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
On a related note - given that they are so clearly link - when Jesus Christ swears, does he say 'James Cameron!'? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
'Titanic' sinks, Jesus rises - I think we see a certain career arc, here. All too close to C. Morris/Peter Cook's routine of finding "the bones of the infant Christ" in the desert - "up in the Promised Land, as I think it's called" - and cloning them for a mass mail-shot, sponsored by Honda. "I want to be the first to shake Jesus by the hand, and say - 'well done!' " | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6403263.s tm - A small feast of "fnarr, fnarr" Freudian puns: "It's not a big part ..."; "Ladies, get over it"; and "the talking point of the play" - quite a mental image. My favourite? "I take my hat off to him" - which could come in rather handy, all things considered. | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
The guy is smart. After "Star Wars" Mark Hamill had a number of adult film offers he refused as not to hurt the franchise (I do remember the film offer for "The boys in the band) with the current results. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Wagner - public genius with a private passion for bustles, bows and bodices' 2023849%2C00.html,http://www.guardian.co.uk/german y/article/0,,2023849,00.html From the article: 'Certain schools of recent Wagner scholarship have focused on the composer's erotics. Joachim Köchler, author of Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans, conveys, according to Spencer, "a lively portrait of a cross-dressing composer who needed an aura of femininity to stimulate his senses".' | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
And: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6406 001.stm Space-age funeral for 'Mr Noodle' Momofuku Ando The late inventor of instant noodles was symbolically blasted off into space at a funeral ceremony attended by thousands in Osaka, western Japan. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
You mean - they didn't boil him in a bag ..? | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Hmm, they should have done - he'd probably have reconstituted and come back to life in 3 minutes! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
http://www.galwayfirst.ie/donkey/ 'Lonely man brought donkey to hotel room, court told' Apart from donkey / latex related shenanigans, he 'was also charged with damage to a mini-bar in the room, but this charge was later dropped when the defendant said that it was the donkey who caused that damage.' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Sort of like "it's the horse wot gets the blame," then! Ahem. I'll get me latex related shenanigan ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
They said, 'You've got a knife sitting in the head of the president of the United States,'" McDonald said. "I said, 'No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.'" Literalists, eh? What can do you do with 'em? http://www.nbc11.com/news/11148845/detail.html | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Literalists? You're being very polite! | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Liechtenstein: no retaliation for Swiss 'invasion'" http://tinyurl.com/yudp3x It's WAAAAAAAAAAR! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Not quite a headline, but... http://www.suprememastertv.com/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I think I'm in love ... | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
martin.. Monday and you are in love? i am trying hard to think about another Cure song to answer that but no success... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
As long as you steer clear of "Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me" we'll probably be fine. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Rhino gives 'first' birth on web" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6421549.s tm Poor spider! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Arturo: "10.15 Saturday Night" is a bit closer to my current state of mind, I'm afraid. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Hi all! Been a while. Found this and had to post it here: "Photo Essay: American Happiness and the Need to Consume" http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/03/ha ppiness-22.html More of MJH's narratives of the mall. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Hmm - as much Ballard as MJH, surely? | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Yep, surely. Haven't read Kingdom Come yet though. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
My mum and dad live about 5 minutes from where it's set. As yet have witnessed no real life riots down there. Give it time... Quite haunted tho', it's on the site of the old Brooklands racetrack, apparently the ghosts of 1920s racers, cars etc can be seen round there. Haven't witnessed them either, alas. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Scooter Libby guilty as charged... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6424319. stm Cat, pigeons, etc... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
You're the BBC! Your news teams witness the most important event of the 21st century - despite reporting bits of it, er, strangely wrong!! So you'd certainly keep all that coverage safe and secure, with back-up copies ,wouldn't you!!! - Wouldn't you..? http://infowars.net/articles/february2007/280207BB C.htm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Another blow to the hi-definition memory banks of the 21st Century... and, um, to truth. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
In fairness, a BBC editor has responded - "cock-up, not conspiracy." Knowing both large organizations and the problems of their archives, this rings only too true: but not to the posters at his blog. Scroll down for the full opened tin of condemned paranoid offal - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part _of_the_conspiracy.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"A paranoid is just someone who's realised what's going on around here." - William S. Burroughs. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/0907 05bombingexercises.htm No freemasons, Jews, or giant lizards disguised as royalty seem to have been involved, though - so that's some relief. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
I do like the fact that a BBC editor will quote a comment on YouTube to back up his argument. But yes, you can normally rely on organisational incompetence to give the illusion of conspiracy. | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
Well the following is on spanish news: Rigth now the trial for the train bombings is starting. One of the threads has been about the supossed use of boric acid to make bombs, there is a police expert that claims it has some use for that because he remember reading so once in the net even though he doesn´t remember wich page. *And he put that on the official report* | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Something may be going on; nothing may be going on. here are some articles from the non-conspiracy side of the fence to help us make up our minds: or not. http://ourworld.cs.com/mikegriffith1/refute.htm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
True life imitates fiction, which was about other fictions imitating true life: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6425927.stm | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Not quite a headline, but post-apocalypse golfing in the Big Easy: http://neworleansnation.blogspot.com/2007/03/where -is-dr.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"When a narrative voice becomes your own..." http://tinyurl.com/26s8gs Not especially great as a headline - but a useful thought. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
We're ALL individuals! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/science/05cnd-br its.html?ex=1330750800&en=b9b6996d54ba5cc6&ei=5090 &partner=rssuserland&emc=rss 'English, Irish, Scots: They’re All One, Genes Suggest' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Baudrillard dies; Captain America get written out; and Iggy gets interviewed by "The Daily Telegraph": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/ar ts/2007/03/08/bmiggy108.xml "Strange things are happening/Like never before" -Mississippi Sheiks | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
And as far as I´ve been able to check Steve Rogers´s death has gathred much more attention in the us media than baudrillard... mad world. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Supremes Member Calls for Protection from Imposters" http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/ missouristatenews/story/2230E84B4BAC3F998625729800 70FFBA?OpenDocument | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
"Priests to purify site after Bush visit" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/guatemala_bush_purifica tion | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Women Pretend to be Stupid to Make Men Feel Masculine and Strong" http://english.pravda.ru/society/sex/87897-1/ "Men are ready and happy to pardon women’s follies, bad memory and inconstant desires. But they will never agree to pardon women if they prove to be more successful in scientific researches, have higher wages and a stronger will." Ah, those Russians ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Also: "Ants Test Nonviolence of Buddhist Monks" http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2 942725 | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Not quite a headline, but it should be. J.G. Ballard's 'Jackanory'... http://imdb.com/title/tt0773480/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Swiss man admits Thai king insult" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6440 645.stm These Swiss, eh? They're either invading Liechtenstein or insulting kings. And they call themselves neutral! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
The King bears a weird resemblance to His Holiness 'You're disenchanted? Well I'm disenchanted, too - we're all of us disenchanted' the Pope. But given the first syllable of his name, what does he expect? Stop laughing at the back. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Threat to Church Phone Masts 'That Relay Porn ' " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2007/03/12/nchurch12.xml | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
After the Bishop of Southwark's heroic example, Isreal's naked ambassador: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/64414 61.stm Israel recalls 'naked ambassador' 'Israel is replacing its ambassador in El Salvador after the envoy was found outside the embassy, drunk, wearing only bondage gear, officials said.' 'I'm the Isreali ambassador. It's what I do...' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"We heard you were leaving, so we've had a whip round -" All the old jokes ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Secret Service Investigates Satanic Vampire" http://www.columbiachronicle.com/paper/arts.php?id =3525 “You can’t threaten the president’s life even if you say it cleverly.” | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
“I guess the question is, if he’s a vampire, why is he the one staking people? Shouldn’t he want to bite the president and feed on him? [This], I suppose, is perhaps further evidence that this is not a true threat.” Damn clever these lawyers! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
More on the naked ambassador: Naked, drunk, surrounded by sex toys - it's the Israeli ambassador 'When San Salvador police discovered him in his official embassy residence yard in the capital San Salvador, however, smooth talk was not really an option. For starters there was the gag and the rubber ball in his mouth. There was also the matter of being drunk. And naked. And bound. And surrounded by sex toys.' 2032318%2C00.html,http://www.guardian.co.uk/intern ational/story/0,,2032318,00.html The Isreali foreign office is now reviewing its recruitment procedures. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But do ball-gags have to be kosher? Have the rabbis ruled on this yet? *Feels unsettled. Flips worriedly through Zohar* | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Presumably theres a precedent in the binding of Isaac? | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Perhaps it was a re-enactment? And he just misunderstood the whole impaling thing. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not as barmy as we might think: >I played Joseph being sold into slavery with a group of small children. They got rough with “Joseph” but it made the point.< "Crucify him! Whoops, sorry - wrong story -" http://www.pcacep.org/publications/EquipArchives/T ips/9701-RolePlay.htm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Mind you, some of those kids grow up to be very confused: >around the time of my attending at secondary school, i wanted to find a meaning in life, so i read the bible of my own accord; then the rabid thoughts started< You don't say ... More fun with one-time wine and wafer freaks here: http://www.users.bigpond.com/pmurray/exchristian/ | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Magic realism lives! And it's over the limit... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2 007/03/13/national/a190307D72.DTL 'Lawyer: Man Said Unicorn Caused Crash' 'Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings. He told officers at the scene that a unicorn was driving, she said.' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"He should have used the horn, then!!"  *Nurse drops sheet across face* *Closes curtains on bed* *Distributes spare grapes round ward, etc.* | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Unicorn clarification: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/03/14 /news/local/33-unicorn.txt Yellowstone County Attorney Dennis Paxinos said this morning that widespread reports of a Billings drunken-driving defendant who told police that a unicorn was driving when his truck crashed into a light pole are inaccurate. "That did not happen," Paxinos said at a press conference he called to set the record straight. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Our whole universe is string-net liquid." http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325954.200 Still no sign of black cats, white cats, or a skull-headed creatrix out there, though ...  | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Comeback for 'non-offensive' pigs" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/645696 1.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Today the BBC tell us that a third thought the war in Iraq was right, while The Guardian informs us that 60% thought that the war in Iraq was wrong. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
... leaving 10%, who said: a) What war? b) Rushdie had it coming. c) I don't know, I never watch tv. Interesting use of the past tense, too! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Archer attempts to rehabilitate Judas 2038810%2C00.html,http://books.guardian.co.uk/news /articles/0,,2038810,00.html 'So where do you go after selling 125m books and spending time in jail for perjury and perverting the course of justice? It was obvious to Lord Archer. He wrote the fifth gospel and then got the Vatican to unveil it to the world.' Archer comments: "This is a gospel - and I think we're the first people to do that." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Time for some cheap laffs! http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2007/03/top _15_unintent.html - I'm especially fond of nos. 9 and 6 ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Number nine seems a little unfair on Cockneys. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I got the impression it was either a private joke - or they had no idea what it meant. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Quite possibly the oddest news item this year: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/OHEASsturgi s.html | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6482981. stm Pakistan's coach 'was strangled' Is anyone else astonished by this? It's like an episode of Columbo... | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
The Shrander's work continues: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20math.h tml?ref=science Seriously: wow. I occasionally do stats analyses that rotate my findings/models in n-dimensional space so that the model fits the data as closely as possible. But this...makes it look like I'm just splashing around in the kiddie pool. Wow. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Don't know if you guys have seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic Mary Poppins recut as a horror movie (or at least trailer thereof). Now that's one film I'd like to see... | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
Who could have guessed that Mary Poppins was really Helen V from the Great God Pan? | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Cormac continues to make it impossible to believe that the end is not actually upon us: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_en_ot/books _winfrey Why wait until you're too old old to enjoy it to sell out? I really don't know what to think about this. I hope he just says he's doing it to sell books. Least he can do is be honest. Even Cormac's gotta eat. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Hey, kids, it's Easter! Or should that be - "EATER"??!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6509127.stm Yum! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Hmm, My Sweet Lord? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
That is like *so* Jodorowsky. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Gives a whole new meaning to "chewing his nails," though, doesn't it? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And it's high time Pete Best stopped doing this kind of thing, too: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,214 85820-663,00.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Headline of the Year, of course: http://harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=11 056 - except for that worrying date under Mr. Mills' by-line. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Photo credit: courtesy A.P. Rilfool, RETNA Images" Hmm. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Stones star 'snorted dad's ashes'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6524661.s tm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0407/410995.html A bit like: Mr Man: You see, what I really wanted was a regiment where I could be really quiet and have more time to myself to work with fabrics, and creating new concepts in interior design. RSM: Working with fabrics and experimenting with interior design! Mr Man: Yes. RSM: Oh well you want the Durham Light Infantry then, sir. Epsidoe 30, "Mary Recruitment Office" : http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/justthewords.htm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Almost identical to certain passages in Jocelyn Brooke's Orchid Trilogy. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
*Still* have to find a copy ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Definitely worth tracking down. Wonderful stuff. If I see one I'll snap it up for you. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
You're too kind to an old man ... *Sobs hoplessly over zimmer frame* *Skids* | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
Judge rules Proctor and Gamble not satanic http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=8610 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Last time I buy their stuff, then. Meanwhile, there's a growing call to pardon Jim Morrison from the charge that he exposed himself on stage in 1969. One fan quoted by the BBC said: "He shouldn't have this hanging over him." A neat trick if you can do it ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And in another stunning development, the head of Apple resigns because he can't stand the thought of the Beatles being a "cash cow": http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headlin e=mad-apple--%26method=full%26objectid=18886813%26 siteid=89520-name_page.html - begging the question, what on earth does he think they've been for the past 45 years? | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
Silly, silly, silly girl! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6549267.st m | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Rob, you should've been there - a bit quiet for my tastes, to be honest, but we still had a heck of a time! | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
Reminds me of the parties of my youth (without the urinating on wedding dresses bit- we were never that rebellious!) and the memorable time when a raucous gathering was silenced by a VERY ANGRY Irishwoman who strode into the room and bellowed "Who's been fecking my daughter- she's red raw!" Rob | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Christ - you were at that one, too ..? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not sign of "Hamlet": http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4028056a1861.html "The alpha male bashed hell out of the computer with a stone and the other monkeys did little else but urinate and defecate on the keyboard." But, hey, that's office life today ... | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Not quite a headline, but some very groovy talks here: http://www.treadwells-london.com/lectures.asp 'Demon Hunters of Japan' this Thursday looks particularly cool... alas can't make it! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Dickensworld under construction in Chatham http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6559197.stm 'Housed in a modern, aluminium-clad hangar on the Chatham Maritime estate in Kent, its creators promise a flavour of "dark, smoky, moody London, full of smells and mist".' Why not just go to London? *lurks atmospherically* | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
lo-res judaica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEH1S7ktJ3E&mode=re lated&search= 'Just a warning, though, this model Beis Hamikdash is in a very early stage. That's why all the colours are, well, ugly. ' | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat" http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4740 000/newsid_4748200/4748292.stm (sorry, I should be back in effect in a few days - adjusting to the new space age bachelor pad) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/artic le2458855.ece - Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm huntin' wabbits! - Ah, say Doc - you caught any yet? - No ... Hey, wait a minute - | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Kremlin Revives Plan For Tunnel to Alaska" http://tinyurl.com/2fj8yv | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
The world exists only in Chris Morris's mind, etc. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/weird_news/20070 418_ap_ohioprincipalconvictedofkissingfeet.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6584229. stm Next week: global warming reveals weird island in South Pacific, small children begin muttering "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" in sleep, M&S withdraws entire range of fishcakes, etc. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"New 'Super Earth' Found in Space" : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6589157. stm Somewhere else for us to f*ck up, then ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Breathing Android Created" - which, spookily, looks just like its inventor. And they could both be Chris Morris in disguise. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/no l/newsid_6590000/newsid_6592200?redirect=6592251.s tm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
>>"New 'Super Earth' Found in Space" Where the fuck did they expect to find it? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Mucus Substitute Helps Artificial Nose Scent Success" - That's easy for you to say ... http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11715-mu cus-substitute-helps-artificial-nose-scent-success .html | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Ann Summers love egg fails to crack Cyprus' 'Cypriot readers in search of some "serious clitoral lovin"...are advised not to bother looking for tablecloth-clenching ecstasy down at Ann Summers' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/cypriot_eg g_ban/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Animal Rights' Arrests: Statement by Assistant Chief Constable - sorry, what was that name again? http://tinyurl.com/3ycp4v | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Just dropping in briefly to deliver a choice morsel: Bill O'Reily interviews Richard Dawkins: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/04/orei lly_interviews_dawkins.php#more I'll be back to posting soon...work is settling down. Hope you're all well. | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Fascinating. I think Bill O'Reilly presents as good a case as Dawkins. Very sharp behind that avuncular exterior. Not that I agree with either of them; but it remains as Reilly says that Stalin and Hitler were atheists, which makes Dawkin's argument in blaming religion for human evil illogical. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
You're a US soldier! You've served in Raq and Stan!! You're tired and traumatised!!! You want some good R&R!!!! And so - you get: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID= /20070501/LOCAL/705010426 | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Good grief. I can only respond with: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20 070430-3.html Bush declares 'Loyalty Day 2007' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
It reads like something from bed 8 in the secure ward, doesn't it? Definite air of glazed eyes and Nero as it moves into CAPITAL LETTERS. Tony must be kicking himself for not having thought of it sooner. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Yup, quite astonishing. On a less imperial note, have just discovered this: http://twittervision.com/ which is lovely. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"70 year-old Ham Back on Display in North Carolina" http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/local_story_12219374 8.html Odd thing to do; odder still when your restaurant's called *that* ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
First - wedding to goat (see April 17). Now - goat dies in bizarre "plastic bag" incident: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6619983.stm No mention of satsumas - but all too reminiscent of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Milligan Some people'll do anything to put the magic back in their marriage ... | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
I missread that as "wendigo coat" Glad to know that imagination still goes over the news | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"The Wendigo Coat" - it sounds like the most frightening story Lovecraft never wrote. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
On a par with "Fish Found Dead At Sea": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highla nds_and_islands/6618995.stm?ls And: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highla nds_and_islands/6599485.stm "The water-filled inflatable mammals we use are so lifelike that when the course has been run in the past, members of the public have offered to help, thinking they were real." | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
Some year ago there was a headline in the spanish newspapers. It seems that fishermen were puzzled by the spate of small of young fishes that were caugth in the nets. Biologist found that many died because of the fish equivalent of heart failure. The fish were flying something. It seems something had come out of the depths and scared them into flying. So far so horror story-hoax-journo making out something, alas it is actually a factual horror story. The biggest predator had come out because the current was warmer than usual and they no longer could survive in the depths because of global warming. This was in Cantabria some five years ago. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Kefahuchi, anyone? http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11799-did- antimatter-factory-spark-brightest-supernova.html Neat animation to load half-way down, showing how these events generate a lot of - well, light (amongst much else). | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
You should watch writers very carefully http://www.icomment.org/index.php/main/video/show? id=4174629 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Weather divine. Met some dead happy people for lunch. Glad you're not here." http://postrapturepost.com/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Vibrator 'threat to national security' " http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=2 9&art_id=iol1178707839645V163 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Tarrant arrested over restaurant incident" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070514/tuk-uk-brit ain-tarrant-fa6b408.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Earlier reports claimed he'd rounded on the couple in the restaurant and declared: "I've had enough." All the usual cheap jokes can be posted below. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
We're all lost - do you hear me? Lost! LOST! - Well, in a few billion years anyway: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11852-gala ctic-merger-to-evict-sun-and-earth.html Actually, I thought the sun would be dead by then, but I must have been reading the wrong fusion figures, or something. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Borat now writing for Pravda: http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/11-01-200 6/9488-condoleezza-0 'Condoleezza Rice's anti-Russian stance based on sexual problems' 'The US Secretary of State released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children.' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Unborn Babies Targeted in Crackdown on Criminality" http://tinyurl.com/yv7kt4 "The Piranha Brothers were born, on probation - " | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
Didn´t Phillip K.Dick write that one already? | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Antarctic 'treasure trove' found http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6661987.stm "What was once thought to be a featureless abyss is in fact a dynamic, variable and biologically rich environment." 'ware Shoggoths, Old Ones, buried cosmic cities, etc... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Shoggoths, eh? http://www.folloder.com/talbert/1999.htm (6 down) | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Baby Shoggoths: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/s ci_nat_antarctic_treasure_trove/html/1.stm (and other alienata) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
... Where even the Munna crustaceans say: Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough. Bloody prawns. We had a right set-to wiv 'em when Millwall played away in '98, I can tell yer - | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
More from the deeps: http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg1942 6045.300-high-levels-of-biodiversity-found-in-the- deep-ocean.html 'The carnivorous moonsnail can detect food from a great distance; the polyps that cover its shell hitch a ride to reach their food (Image: British Antarctic Survey). | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not much happens in Swindon: http://archive.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/2002/5/14/1 88374.html The cheap laffs are in para 9: the name of kitten's owner (can this be true?), plus the name of her previous cat - and what happened to it ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"The Uncomfortable Reality of Sex in Space" http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/ sexdrive/2007/05/sexdrive_0518 "We cannot expect astronauts to spend three years in a spacecraft and not have sex -- of some kind. Probably with each other, and likely in more than one combination." Why isn't science fiction addressing real issues like this, etc. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Surely you're forgetting the legendary Star Trek flashback to a drunken Captain Kirk on the pull at the Science Department Christmas Party? Always ahead of their time, those guys... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
It was "probably with each other" that I liked: not so much for its suggestion that they could well spend time alone with a Paris Hilton box set, but the suggestion that there might be - Others out there who might oblige. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
>>there might be - Others out there who might oblige. Solaris, anyone? Meanwhile, while we're on the subject of sex: "Captive shark had 'virgin birth'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6681793.stm | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
The shark messiah? Has the Lord returned in a new, toothier guise? Is 'Jaws' now the fifth book of the new testament? Have we been misunderstanding 'I will make you fishers of men' all these years? THE SHARKY END TIMES ARE UPON US!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
A crucified shark would be awfully awfully Jodorowsky. Might be a good way to barbeque them? I bet you could get thrown out of a church for suggesting that Our Lord was spatchcocked. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And early Christians used the fish as a symbol!! And Jesus kept saying 'ye shall be FISHERS of men!!! No wonder Mary hung out by the Sea of Galilee all the time - she was obviously some kind of eldritch "Shadow Over Innsmouth" hybrid!!!! *Wipes fevered brow* This is The Big Story. Obviously. And that means Big Bucks. *Checks 'Holy Blood & Holy Grail' against future loss of earnings* *Contemplates fall of Papacy, impulse purchase of dream home in Slough, platinum loyalty card at Primark, etc.* | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
>> A crucified shark would be awfully awfully Jodorowsky Might not that be... THE SHARK OF THE COVENANT!?!?!?! >> Mary hung out by the Sea of Galilee And didn't Christ walk on water? And did not the storm calm at his urging?! IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER!!! XTHULHU FHTAGN!!!! Etc. *drafts article for the Fortean Times* | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Ah well, gives one a sense of porpoise. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Most of Jesus' miracles involve water ..." http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/jesus-cthulhu .html | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
On the holy blood and the holy grail - the French crown prince is known as the Dauphin... THE DOLPHIN!!!! Could this be a hangover from the fishy ancestry of the Merovingian kings, WHOSE BLOODLINE WAS DIRECTLY DESCENDED FROM THE SEA WALKING GALILEAN AND HIS SHORE HAUNTING WIFE????!??!?!?! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
A lot of fun, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuY2wXTd0o&mode=re lated&search= And - don't have nightmares: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdIAxwOxiZ8 Very Viv Stanshall! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
- And somewhere in the Bible, Jesus walks on the water and Paul calls out - "Come on - give us a wave!" *Gets toga* | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
That first one we saw in an enormous audience of SF geeks at last year's Eastercon. Good, though! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Yup, very enjoyable. It was a double bill with that evening's Dr Who! Found a fantastic Lovecraftian movie in two or three parts on YouTube a while back, about a scholar being sucked into the Necronomicon. Captured that HPL oddness perfectly... authentically spooky and surreal. I've never been able to find it again...! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
This..? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkYiB9GPVi0 (It just came up with "Necronomicon" as a search term). If it's the one you were thinking of, I see what you mean! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
No, that's not it - same kind of feel, tho' only it went on for about 10 (very spooky and disorientating) minutes. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
So: you're a teenager who writes about murder and necrophilia - let's face it, who hasn't? Logical career choice? http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_143120902 .html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Snake bursts after gobbling gator" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4313978. stm | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Shrinks get a hold of Star Wars: Pathological teenagers like Star Wars because they're pathological teenagers. Fucking deep, man. "Anakin Skywalker: Borderline Personality, Bipolar or Narcissist?" http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2007/05/a nakin_syndrome | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Founding family sells Patak's" http://tinyurl.com/ytk5cv | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Performance Artist 'Eats Corgi' " - with Yoko in attendance. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6703423.s tm | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Not quite a headline: http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
... but in later life he went and designed this! http://www.strawbsweb.co.uk/related/fother/holiday s1.jpg | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Duuuuuuuuude! Pretty hardcore bloke - wasn't he locked up in some grim Japanese prison camp during the war? And wondering if this could be a candidate for the new empty space header: http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/topp/music /music1.htm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Searle: Burma-Siam Railway - so "grim" doesn't come near it. Left England for France, I think on account of Thatcher, and works to this day. It came as a small surprise a couple of years ago to learn he was still alive: I hadn't heard of him since the '70s. People keep cropping up in all sorts of unlikely times and places. I only learnt this week that Ivor Novello got 2 months in Wormwood Scrubbs for petrol coupon fraud during World War 2, and met - Mad Frankie Fraser. A pity Joe Orton never got around to giving us a version of that choice encounter: still, never mind. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Yup, googled him yesterday - very surprised (in a good way) to find out he was still around. My favourite odd couple - Arthur C. Clarke and William Burroughs. They met at a 60s party, apparently got on like a house on fire, spending most of the time chatting exclusively in a corner and bitching about how appalling the music was. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
My favourite odd couple moment came watching the new DVD of Dylan's '65 tour film, "Don't Look Back." On the commentary, the director suddenly revealed that he'd had a letter from Samuel Beckett asking for a large-print copy of the script. Beckett loved Dylan's work, referred to him as "the Poet," and apparently had all the albums. This seems almost too weird to be true - hard to picture Sam playing air guitar in front of the mirror to "Desolation Row" - but maybe he was just as susceptible to Dylan's cool as the rest of us: http://beckettjapan.org/re_beckett2006tokyo.gif - Harmonica not shown. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Psychic Museum Closes Due to Unforeseen Circumstances" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/09/psychic_mu seum_closes/ More posts from sceptics on the link below, including stories of mediums having "visions" of Madeleine McCann: she could be in Denmark now. Or Mombassa. No, tell a lie, it's Toulouse. Possibly ... http://www.skeptics.org.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php? f=17 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"This does not betray me." Nor anyone else: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3699 516.stm |