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| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Cold object delights astronomers" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6720831.stm "Identifying an object like J0034-00 is a more challenging version of finding a needle in a haystack... In this case it was like looking for a piece of slightly reddish straw rather than a nice shiny needle." | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
I'm a blogger! http://alrobertson.48dayscoach.com/blog/?id=alrobe rtson 'Bringing Understanding to the Church About Its Hebraic Roots' | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
In fact I really AM a blogger, started it today... http://allumination.wordpress.com/ So this is the official launch! Will see how it goes and whether I actually keep it up. *pops champagne* | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Talking paper made by scientists' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6723475.stm What will these boffins come up with next? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Fidgeters 'likely to be thinner'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6725107.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Man tries to jump into popemobile" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6726441.st m | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Tssk, stage diving again Zali... | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
"wearing a pink T-shirt, black shorts and a baseball cap." Yep, thats Zali alright. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not white; not cutely blonde; no professional PR contacts, so - no worldwide publicity!  But the family's grief must be just as terrible: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-07060 5girl-missing,1,43810.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctra ck=1&cset=true | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
You have to register to read the article - presumably another missing tot? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
My apologies: I logged on from a general news source. Vastly unhappy reading, though - >Police and family members continued to search Tuesday for a 12-year-old girl who was reported missing five days ago on Chicago's West Side. >Desiree Ruvalcaba, who is called "Shay," was reported missing by her mother at around 7:45 p.m. Thursday, and was last seen by a family friend getting into a late-model dark green car driven by an older man near Central Avenue and Lake Street. >Desiree has wandered off at least seven times in the last year, her mother Dorothy Barnes said, but only for a few hours. The girl, a 6th grader at Woodlawn Community School, takes medication for depression and hallucinations. >"As long as she's taking her medication, she's a normal little girl," her mother said. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Yup, very sad indeed. What gets me about these stories is the sense of frustrated care you get from the parents. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But - there *is* a god!! Our prayers have been answered! I need a witness!!! http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/07/paris-hilton-free-wo man/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Chernobyl Becomes Wildlife Haven" http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070607/D8PK6ID80 .html Mutated barn swallows: no groups of black or white cats reported in the Zone, though. | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
Ohmigod! Mutated barn swallows what? R. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Wheelchair man gets highway ride' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6732003. stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
robp:  The barn didn't eat any of this lot: interesting to compare, isn't it? http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626 519,00.html | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
Intriguing that the British family from Cllingbourne Ducis (where!!??) cite their favourite foods as avocado and mayonnaise sandwiches... and the picture shows their weekly food shop to include Go-Cat. Give me the pigs knuckles any day. Rob | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Is science art? http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/06/eur oupdate_2_is_science_art.php I think MrvnMouse's comments are spot on. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Bring Yourself to Work!" http://www.bringyourselftowork.com/top50.htm Right ... nos. 13 and 18 should go down especially well. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
>>16. Wear a T-Shirt that reveals something of you. Thank God they didn't say underpants! >>35. Choose Your Attitude - Each day you choose how you are going to act or which "side of the bed" you wake up on. The choice is yours and, the way you act, affects others. Quite right too! I *always* choose to get out of the wrong side of bed on a work day. >>39. Bring something in your pocket really dear to you and be ready to participate at the "Show and Tell Tea/Coffee Break." See No.16. >>52. Connect with everyone you meet in a deep and meaningful way. Someone would probably get hurt. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah. Right. Whatever... http://tinyurl.com/yqygv7 | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
>> 4. Carry your favourite CD so that everyone else can listen to it. I've tried that. People start throwing things at me. >> 18. Play hide and seek in the office. I do this anyway. I don't want to be found. >> 44. Work as if you'd do it if you weren't being paid. There is no Colombo here. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Headline of the Year: probably. "Owner's Appeal Over Cat's 26 Toes" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_wes t/6741167.stm | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
I see your 26 toed cat, and I raise you: Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb' http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.h tml 'A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Chris Morris must have been right about gays in the navy, then: "Homosexuals can't swim ... they attract enemy radar. They get up late. They muck around." | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
"Labour-Plaid deal talks to start" A spokesman for Warp records has confirmed that one of their top electronic acts has been approached to create the new New Labour theme tune. "We wanted something that was glitchy, repetitive and a bit fucked up," said Hazel Blears, "so we thought they'd be ideal." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Perhaps conveniently for Ms. Blears and the Cash For Honours inquiry: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2 651053.ece I'm sure no vital documents were lost ... | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Tssk, those ravening beasts... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Who you callin' a nutter?" http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/photosfirst.h tml Amazing these people aren't under restraint, really ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"US town set to ban saggy trousers" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6751777. stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
... And Michael Barrymore is re-arrested. I think we're seeing a Greater Pattern to world events here. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Woman jailed for testicle attack" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4253849.stm It's all connected! All of it! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Wikipedia reminds us myself about Barrymore: >His catchphrase is "Aw-wight!" (a London pronunciation of "All right?"), which he usually follows up with "Aw-wight at the back?" * Sayings from Strike It Lucky which have caught on include "Top, Middle or Bottom?" * and "What is a hotspot not?" (the answer to which is "A good spot!")< * Rather unfortunate choices, all things considered... - Where's me washboard? Have you seen it? Have YOU seen it? Eh, missus? Where's me washboard? | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
I don´t think I can provide a headline for this in english. Bob Dylan is going to get the Principe de Asturias Award. The most prestigious spanish award to relevant culture heroes.Given by the heir of the crown,no less. The spanish royal heir is Principe de Asturias ( prince of asturias) much in the way than the royal heir in England is Prince of Wales. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
My Spanish is nonexistent: please excuse me. But fortunately, Mr. Bob's audience isn't confined to monoglots like me. http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/efe/20070613/ten-bob- dylan-gana-el-premio-principe-de-9f4d5bb_1.html - And more items listed here: http://expectingrain.com/ | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
Hi, Martin. Yes, That the news. The juiciest part is that the jury speaks of Dylan as a "Living myth". There is some info on english now http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,665193453,00 .html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/13/ap/enter tainment/main2923143.shtml Previous winners include Woody Allen and Jane Goodall. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"About 20 Werewolves Wander Around the World Nowadays" Russianglish with lots(!) of exclamation marks - and some freak-show links it may be best not to open if at work (I haven't checked them, and I've no idea what Paul McCartney's doing there). But still: http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/19-06-2 007/93567-werewolf_syndrome-0 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Marilyn Monroe's amazing hips and protruding breasts will never fade" ?! Personally I'm currently enjoying the Bernard Manning news. One colleague of mine thought that it was Bernard Matthews who was dead. When I corrected him he said, "didn't like either of them very much!" | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
Cool! i didn't know till I tuned in here. Comment on the BBC site says it all "Bernard Manning dead? Well, it could have been worse: it could have been someone else" rob | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"He went into hospital. But yesterday his condition improved." All these jokes and more, on almost any forum care to name. Meanwhile: "Vatican Issues Ten Commandments for Drivers" - Especially no. 8. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2007/06/19/wvatican119.xml | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
The 11th commandment was cut from the public list, but is still issued to those in the church: "Thou shalt not cruise schoolyards for little boys while in your Chevy Nova." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, for heaven's sake ... *Hands back costume to PriestsRUs, ignition keys back to Avis, etc* | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Do Black Holes Really Exist?" http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12089-do-b lack-holes-really-exist.html "Hey! There's one just over ther -" | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
A nation mourns. Obviously. http://tinyurl.com/3dop54 New of the theology degree is somehow laughable and, at the same time, just what we might expect. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Lake Disappears Suddenly in Chile" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6225676.stm Don't look at me. I haven't got it ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/22/1958 797.htm - an extraordinary admission, even for a criminal lunatic. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
If cheap shoes are a false economy, then oil and SUVs must be... Forget it. Not getting started. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Britain under Blair was, above all, a smiling place. We shall miss that." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/art icle1976763.ece | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Of course they will ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/art icle1985806.ece | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Sheesh... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Auschwitz Is Officially Stamped As 'German' " http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article272008 0.ece Even more bizarrely: there were "demands at last week's European Union summit in Brussels that Poland's war dead should weigh in the country's favour in any calculation which would determine Warsaw's voting strength in the EU." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Russian Fishermen Catch Squeaking Alien and Eat It" http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/07-02-2 007/87167-alien_monster-0 Check the video: obviously plastic head glued (you can see the join) to a fish's tail, I am thinking. Oh, those Russians ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
- "Glimpse of Time Before Big Bang Possible" http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070701/sc_space/gl impseoftimebeforebigbangpossible;_ylt=AlMCfuUvzTuV6gwcbr7OomYDW7oF "Loop quantum gravity" ? I wondered, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_quantum_gravity - but even this is beyond me. If anyone can explain it in words at galactic village idiot level, I'd love to hear more. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Probably just suffering from cosmic forgetfulness. | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
I can explain it. Once the world didn't begin. Before it began. Then was way back then. Think of now as a wave and then as the wave's having passed. Then after it didn't begin a whole history of finite metaphysical popcorn flooded space at billions of light years a second. Then Stephen Hawking picked up some of the pieces and thought about what it all meant. That's the story so far. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Particularly enjoyed this global email today: "Subject - Middlesex and the Independent newspaper The Press Office have been offered an opportunity for some very positive media coverage of the University in the Independent newspaper during Clearing week, which is perfect timing for us. We have been trying to find the right kind of student to put up for interview with a journalist, but have had no luck so far. If anyone knows a student who fits all the following criteria, please contact the Press Office on 5093 or 5920 as soon as possible. The journalist is on a very tight deadline. The kind of student we are looking for: - is just finishing their first year - is pleased they came to Middlesex - came to us through Clearing - had not originally intended to come to Middlesex Thanks in advance. If we can find this student very quickly, we can achieve exactly the kind of media coverage we need to boost the numbers of potential students coming to Middlesex through Clearing. Sarah Birdsall Head of Media Relations" | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Belgian guest finds frozen bodies' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6274346.st m 'A Belgian man has been arrested after a dinner guest helping to clear up after the meal opened a freezer and found the body of the host's wife and stepson.' | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Ah! Dessert!" | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
'All I want from Science Fiction' http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2007/07/a ll_i_want_from_science_fictio.php?utm_source=sbhom epage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=sublink "when the makers of science fiction go into a lot of detail about the wild new capabilities in their fictional world, trying to show us how very smart they are with the scientific grounding for these gizmos, they tend to lose the suspension of disbelief I was prepared to spot them at the beginning. It's often more effective, in my view, to just specify that in this story, people can do X, rather than trying to sell us on the plausibility of an explanation for how they can do X." | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4605476.stm 'Librarians 'suffer most stress'' *makes camomile tea for Zali* | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
'D.C. mugger turns out to be a hugger' http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/ 2003787003_robbery13.html 'Ad Nauseum' "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 'Say Hello to the Biggest Fucking Hero in the World' http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/bush_hero_fligh t_suit.jpg | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"!0,000 Bees found in Lounge Chair" http://www.local6.com/spotlight/13711969/detail.ht ml Like - they counted them ..? | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Jeremy Bentham appointed CEO of Shell Hydrogen' http://www.shell.com/home/content/media-en/news_an d_library/press_releases/2003/hydrogen_new_ceo_190 32003.html Who knew? | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Norway princess talks to angels' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6915262.st m | ||
| arturo Username: arturo Registered: 10-2006 |
I´ve been away a couple of days and I just heard about the current trouble with water. I hope everybody is all rigth. | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
Forget about the water- this Dihydrogen Monoxide stuff is what we should be worried about http://www.dhmo.org/ | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Somewhat Ballard, methinks: Incidents at the Ringhals hotel complex http://www.vattenfall.com/www/vf_com/vf_com/370103 press/370165vatte/558562vatte/index.jsp?pmid=84813 &WT.ac=content | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Pencil removed from German's head" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6933721.st m | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Putting electronics in a spin" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6935638.stm ""With quantum computing you are able to attack some problems on the time scales of seconds, which might take an almost infinite amount of time with classical computers," said Professor David Awschalom of the University of California, Santa Barbara." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"If You Could Travel in Time -" http://tinyurl.com/2vpbje Wells only went forwards. A hundred years later, most people just want to go back. Draw your own conclusions. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"My Hellish Love Triangle with George & Eric- Part One" http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/ar ticle.html?in_article_id=473174&in_page_id=1879 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Send more Britons into space, urge experts" http://tinyurl.com/yvvwjc | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Feeling Lonely? Just Switch on Your Robot Friend" ALdiss inspired, but it never buys a round: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/e arth/2007/09/14/scirobot114.xml "His brains are not inside him." I know the feeling, I really do. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Report on Hindu god Ram withdrawn" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/699441 5.stm "Hindu hardliners say the project will destroy what they say is a bridge built by Ram and his army of monkeys." | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
I've often wondered, but have always been too polite to ask, if 'Hindu hardliners' (and Pratchett fans) had a crisis of faith when photos from space showed the earth was not supported by elephants and turtles? Rob | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
He paid 'em peanuts, y'know ... After the funeral, friends and family of this joke will be holding a wake in the Bleedin' Obvious. All welcome. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
"A Private Shot to the Moon" http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/a-private -shot-to-the-moon/ If I were the moon, I'd break orbit and run. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Lovecraft: "The Coloiur Out of Space" It could never happen here. Could it ..? http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/sc_afp/peruhe althoffbeat | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
It could happen, sure. But probably with far fewer spastic adjectives. Personally, I harbor a suspicion that these "meteorites" are really just the moon's way of fighting back against Google and the impending lunar suburban sprawl. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Iraqi ministers back Blackwater shutdown" http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/18/blackwat er.iraq/ | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah Io, similarly dig this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/09/16/AR2007091601341.html?nav=rss_politic s In which we learn that: 'A week ago today, Gen. David H. Petraeus started his rounds on Capitol Hill, reporting that security in Iraq was improving to the point that a small number of troops could begin coming home by year's end. But 10 days ago, his commanders in Baghdad began advertising for private contractors to work in combat-supply warehouses on U.S. bases throughout Iraq because half the soldiers who had been working in the warehouses were needed for patrols, combat and protection of U.S. forces. "With the increased insurgent activity, unit supply personnel must continue to pull force protection along with convoy escort and patrol duties," according to a statement of work that accompanied the Sept. 7 request for bidders from Multi-National Force-Iraq.' | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
This is another one that caught my eye yesterday. http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004196.php Note that, no matter how many civies are slaughtered, it's only murder if the U.S. decides it's murder. Is anyone actually under the delusion that blackwater is going to leave? It's more than likely that Maliki (little puppet that he is) isn't getting something he wants from the Whitehouse and needs leverage to get it. At least he's playing by the same rules as Bush Co. I tried to talk to people about this at work. The response I got was not encouraging: bovine eyes and a desire not to be troubled with complicated problems from a far away land. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
'U.S. Working to Reshape Iraqi Detainees' http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/09/18/AR2007091802203_pf.html In which you will read about "religious enlightment...and education programs" that are "intended to 'bend [extremists] back to our will'" in the part of the Iraq war that is being waged in the "battlefield of the mind". Strangely enough, the battlefield of the mind seems to have the same address as the US military's "House of Wisdom" brain washing facility. Extremist prisoners not amenable to brainwashing are "put...away" in permanent detention centers. Basically, if you think bad thoughts and subscribe to what the US thinks is a "destructive ideology", then your brain is fair game. I just doesn't do to think to myself "this can't get worse", because it always does. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
'Peru : Meteorite, Or A Crashed US Spy Satellite? 600 Sick, Showing Symptoms Of Radiation Poisoning, National Emergency Could Be Declared' http://yournewreality.blogspot.com/2007/09/peru-me teorite-or-us-spy-satellite-600.html This is shaping up to be a doosie. Meteors are cold, freezing even...so why the reports of boiling water in the crater? Because the crater had nothing to do with the meteor? Why the radiation sickness symptoms? Could it have been a satelite? Were there little green men about? Or did somebody just forget to turn off their cosmic dildo? | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Nothing brings a bloated twelve-part epic to a screeching halt like going belly up. Apparently the wheel of time turned too fast. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBy7pK1U-kIvTHx 4PYeiI8rqBkmg | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Baroque and a soft place" http://tinyurl.com/2lxp4a Martin should appreciate this, if he hasn't seen it already. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I hadn't - thank you! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
See also this Castle set of obscurities from the same period, which I bought for "Love Song" : a track with a lot of memories. But if you like Nick Drake, and haven't heard things like "All My Friends, "Graveyard," or "Rosemary Hill" - well, you should! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gather-Mushrooms-Various-A rtists/dp/B0001MXRKM/ref=sr_1_1/026-3786497-976206 4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1190638363&sr=1-1 | ||
| robp Username: robp Registered: 10-2006 |
Feuding nuns force convent demise- Mother Superior mauled!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7023245.st m | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Only three of them left - and then there were none! Ahem. I know people who'd pay good money to watch nuns square off to one another. Personally, I'd rather have seen Charlie Watts smack Jagger into a plate of smoked salmon: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/ showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=484675&in_p age_id=1773 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"De Menezes police warned suspect was 'up for it', court hears" http://tinyurl.com/38m5p2 "The team leader, identified only as "Ralph", understood the order to use tactics - which had never before been deployed - meant firing at a suspect point blank in the head." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Ralph," eh? Was his second name "Savage," by any chance ..? Officer: Savage, why do you keep arresting this man? Constable Savage: He’s a villain, sir. O: A villain … S: And a jailbird. O: (exploding) I know he’s a jailbird, Savage. He’s down in the cells now. We are holding him on a charge of possession of curly black hair and thick lips. S: Well, … well, well, well there you are, sir. O: You arrested him, savage! S: (stupidly pleased) Thank you, sir. O: Savage, would I be correct in assuming that Mr Cudoogo is a coloured gentleman? S: Well, I can’t say I’ve ever noticed, sir. ("Not the 9 O'Clock News") | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Ill health claims are work of 'novelists', says Kim" http://tinyurl.com/3bwgbo | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Today's Chris Morris headline: Fleet Street stock market analyst says - "Jump Off the Deranged Bull *Now* " http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/business/ambrosevansp ritchard/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
... And: "Leapfrogging Mayor Bruises Tomato" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/702685 1.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Police cancel Manchester concerts" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7044799.s tm They must be so gutted in Manchester. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
It's still one of the great rock critic one-liners - Charles Shaar Murray, reviewing a so-called "intellectual" offering from them: "O Sting - where is thy depth?" | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Deadly dangers for graffiti 'taggers'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7038509.stm Not so much the headline here as some of the wonderfully antiquated "along with the buzz comes a fatal danger" and "tragedy that goes with seeking thrills on the railways". I was hoping for a "living for kicks" in there too. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"De Menezes took cocaine, trial hears" http://tinyurl.com/2wzxk9 Well, of course that's okay then. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Neither a child nor a dwarf but something of both, with the eyes and gait of a large monkey ..." No: it couldn't be. Could it.. ? http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/166/ 166192_the_mystery_streaker_of_tib_street.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Elephants electrocuted after beer-fuelled rampage" 2197379%2C00.html,http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/ story/0,,2197379,00.html | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
"Kucinich Had A UFO Encounter, According To Friend Shirley MacLaine" http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/kucinich_had _a_ufo_encounter_according_to_friend_shirley_macla ine.php Notice that bit about the smell of roses. I suspect activity in the Pleroma. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Parasite Trick Helps Fetus Avoid Attack" http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists With Theory of Everything" No mention of strings, no branes, no M-theory (though it's hard to tell, isn't it?): "I think our universe is this beautiful shape ... Holy crap, that's it!" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/e arth/2007/11/14/scisurf114.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedb ox | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Why Absolutely Fabulous Star Julia Sawalha and Her Water Gipsy Lover Drifted Apart" Mooring ropes, or something. Who gives a toss? http://tinyurl.com/2dkc9d | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Man Sells Soul on EBay" http://tinyurl.com/ywxbhg | ||
| dan Username: dan Registered: 10-2006 |
"Any old soul is worth saving, At least to a priest, But not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment..." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Italy's Harry Potter Guide Slain By Son With Spumante Bottle" http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article330758 9.ece | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Planets form twice for old stars" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7180329.stm Not particularly funny, but quite interesting. "Great 'cosmic nothingness' found" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6962185.stm Is probably a better headline, although many months old. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not headlines - just ads no one would run today. After you lot with the Thorazine ... http://www.2spare.com/item_92595.aspx | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
You pay the booking fee - but no one ever turns up ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=507548&in_page_id=1770&c t=5 "Strange things are happening, like never before ..." | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"She said: "When we heard a film might be made, Kelsey said 'Mommy, I could play Madeleine'." | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"666 church motion doomed" http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3 326209.ece | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Yes, doom is here to stay. According to these folk, anyway: http://www.prophecies.us/ "I had a strange experience. I fear that a titanic evil prows the land. It has been placed at the westwards watch tower. Dark and misty is a sign of its present. It has come into this dimension through human evil manifesting there destructive and wicked thoughts. Those like me have been treated cruelly by the people of earth. This evil has infects me but i have the power to reflect it into the westward corner." Good for you, matey. But a sign to the rest of us that some Tolkien fans should never take acid. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"One minute it was there, huge silhouette on the water, then KABOOM and it was completely gone. I jolted awake wondering "what about the onboard nukes?" It was a very frightening dream and I hope it does NOT happen!"" Hey, I like totally concur, girlfriend! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But I admire them when they nail their colours to the mast: 30.12.07: "Weapons of Mass Destruction will be used in Iraq in 2 days." Wrong. Next? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Then again, they could use this: http://www.ifate.com/fateball.html Astonishing. As the Queen told Paul Burrell, there are dark forces at work in this country of which we know not of, Sonny Jim. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Scientists unveil 'supercarrot'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7188969.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Sort of a, ha, "24-carat carrot," eh? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Those still are the days" http://tinyurl.com/2ln5gx I recall some similar rumbling here not so long ago. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
If only I'd known I was living in the future back in 1973, I'd've paid it more attention. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
I had a dream a few weeks ago where I had to time travel back to the 70s to find material for a court case. For some reason I could only do this by reading journals in a library back then rather than reading them in the present day. Anyway, betweek research sessions I took a wander around a rooftop high street which included an early Wimpy, which was spelled "Whimpy" on the sign. I "knew" that this has changed a few year later so I decided to take a picture of it but my digital camera wouldn't work because it was an anachronism. I could send texts back to the present day but I couldn't take photos. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
A few of the joys of typing quickly at the library counter. Oof! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Fortunately, I never dream about those days. It was bad enough living through them once, thank you - brown peplon clothing, rumours of National Service, power cuts, and skin-EEAADs round every corner. Dread and dreary times. Craving to somehow go back there seems something that could only creep out of the deeper kinks and crannies of a national masochism, and I think the nostalgia sparked by "Life on Mars" a worrying sign of folk road-blocked by middle age: deeply depressing. If I'd had a time machine back then, I'd have set off for 2008 without a second thought. (It's interesting that Wells's time traveller never dreamt of doing anything so boring as visiting eras before his own life - the future was far more exciting! I wonder when the paradigm changed for that sort of fiction. Today, England is a place where time machines work only in reverse). As Paul Morley would say, all this is yet another symptom of a culture which believes nothing can ever happen again, because everything has already happened - the infinite but bounded plain of the Blairite present tense. Then again, knowing how culture jumps, zig-zags, or vanishes down the nearest chaos crevass to re-emerge in fool's clothes and bells - perhaps we should relish this bit of peace and quiet while it's still on offer ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Not sure to what extent this dream was "Life on Mars" related and to what extent it referred to family issues rooted back in the 70s. But there's certainly a knot of it in there, in spite of not having seen the programme. Even without a television you can't escape popular culture. The culture has a common complaint of wanting to return to its childhood or remain perpetually ensconced in adolescence. Personally I've never been more unhappy than I was as a teenager but in terms of the lack of responsibility and the sense of potential I can see their point. Is this what Wyndham Lewis meant when he blasted against the cult of youth, or was it already latent in Peter Pan? Perhaps it's an intuition that if there is anything in the future of the West it may force us to grow up and put our toys away. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"'Darkest ever' material created" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7190107.stm None blacker. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
The upper English classes have sentimentalised childhood for the last 200 years, ever since they invented it: mainly because their early lives were otherwise a mish-mash of parental desertion, beatings, and buggery. Lewis, I think, was more in revolt against the bright young things and the cult of the new in the 1920s, which - in England, anyway - discounted a great many people who'd suffered in the Great War and were now adrift in life. After all, if Evelyn Waugh was poncing about in front of you, wouldn't you twat the bastard, just on general principles? "Peter Pan": weird stuff, grounded in trauma - Barrie's brother died in an acccident, and Barrie tried to curry love from his mum by pretending to be the dead boy, who (of cousre) never grew up. You can only wince at what general trauma might have made so many grown men weep at the play. Weird scenes inside the gold mine, and no mistake. And us - well, we're suffering from rock'n'roll as a paradigm. Not as rich as Presley? Not as famous as Bono? Not as "sincere" as James Blunt? Your life's been a waste of f*cking time, annit? Triumph of marketing over experience, more like. | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
>>None blacker. Curses! I was just going to post the same thing, with the same joke Ð although I would have said 'none more black' which would have demonstrated my superior knowledge of Spinal Tap. *walks away grumbling while Iotar flicks the 'v's" | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Airliner crash lands at Heathrow" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086. stm Two alarming things: * I didn't even notice this headline as important or shocking as I scanned the page for the first few times. *"On its approach it took the runway too low, just missing the roof of my cab." It's alarming that a cabbie should be considered a reliable witness! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Depending on your point of view, it either crashed too close to Gordon Brown - or not close enough. Not sure if this would have made Harman or Darling PM in his place. But let's think of happier things. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Putin to revive Soviet muscle-flexing parade" http://tinyurl.com/2foqa6 Yay! I'd been missing this. Unfortunately they're no longer staging it on my birthday. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Morrisons Jettisons Hot Pies and Follows Lulu to Invasion of the South" http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/ind ustry_sectors/retailing/article3233988.ece - less a headline than the blurb to a great fantasy novel, with the Scottish singer as Joan of Arc. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
We might have a winner! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
More than a whiff of Viriconium about it, too! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
You're a journalist! You get sent to Bridgend to cover a spate of teen suicides!! Most of them tied a noose, put it around their neck, and jumped!!! So what would be the very last phrase you'd use in your feature ..? >> Then there was 17-year-old Katie, **hanging around** Nolton Arcade during her lunch break from a business course, who told me about a friend's father who had jumped off a bridge last year. "It's become like a bit of an everyday thing. When the first one happened I was shocked but now it just seems normal, fashionable almost. I don't know. It's that time of the year, isn't it?" << http://tinyurl.com/3b88wl | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Bloody papers. They're either telling us that teenagers are monsters who beat dads and grandmothers to death or they're worried about whether they are going to top themselves. It's all extroversion or introversion, innit? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"New Bond film title is confirmed" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7206997.s tm Quantum of Solace? As the young 'uns say: WTF? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
It sounds like a Mark E. Smith phrase. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Can't manage on £88k per annum? Bless. http://tinyurl.com/3brelv - Perhaps we should send them buns, or something. Poverty's a terrible thing. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"I Heard Them Drill My Skull" http://tinyurl.com/33kvwz - but now he's back at work, as a chef. So that's nice. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"The way I look at it is that they drilled into my skull and now I can cook again." Kinda like maintenance then? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Head like a salt-shaker - "You want some more of me in that?" 'This is disfgraceful behaviour' -W.S. Burroughs | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"German beer sales at 15-year low" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7216123.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Shouldn't that be "15-year Lowenbrau"? Probably not. Meanwhile, at the "Telegraph," their amazing series on just how hard it is to live in the UK nowadays on a six-figure salary has prompted a lot of symapthetic hand-wringing. My favourite on-line response so far: "This is an excellent article and identifies a number of fears and trends that are already obvious in the London suburbs and out to places like Guildford." Always interesting to hear from someone so well-travelled - though I'm not sure they've ever dared venture as far beyond the M25 as they'd have us to believe. One thinks of Mandeville and Marco Polo, don't one. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
After you with the 12-bore: http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/33677/Teb bit-Teach-all-boys-to-shoot "It is much better than playing a ghastly computer game. To have them struggling through the brambles, seeing people shoot, is much more in the interest of the kids." | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
I wish I hadn't looked. Not for the story, pretty much what you'd expect from Tebbit, but the sole comment is sadly revealing of their readership: "Most non whites seem to already know how to shoot according to crime figures" Yeah, you can't go into a Thai restaurant without having a pistol waved in yr face, and as for balti houses! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Craig Brown did a wonderful parody of Tebbit's hangdog style, for a survey of "modern" Britain. One phrase he coined comes to mind whenever I hear about Norman and his supporters: "Black people, *as we must learn to call them,* allowed to roam freely in the streets ..." Dark times indeed! Personally, I think he should model a dashiki or stop listening to Cliff Richard - but it's not up to me to solve his problems. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Indian guru Maharishi Yogi dies" http://tinyurl.com/2dhspm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Thai diners show appetite for rat " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7230233.stm "It's better than chicken." Presumably there will be a fad in the Vatican for spicy rat burgers, or Rat Zingers. I'll get my cassock. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Boy, 5, finds local bank unlocked" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire /7231078.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"'Romantic' trick tattoo to stay" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7139492.stm "That was until she showed it off in a Chinese takeaway and found out it actually spelled "supermarket."" | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Britney: the truth. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/02 05083spears1.html Point 12: she changed the dogs' clothes 3 times a day, then read the label on a pill bottle and asked: "What's insomnia?" For some reason, her parents thought this was out of character. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"aximum Beardy Respect!" http://tinyurl.com/yp2gzd | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Maharishi is Cremated" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/723841 2.stm This is so obviously linked to the fire in Camden. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Archbishop tears up script to face critics" http://tinyurl.com/2by8mf · Williams to 'improvise' in general synod address · Subject switched from Zimbabwe in wake of row "And next up: it's the Rowan Williams Quintet who will be improvising tonight on Middle Eastern and North African themes with his multicultural jazz. Take it away, Rowan!" | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"All I said was, this mosque wouldn't disgrace Jehovah - " | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"India court in moustache notice" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/724026 5.stm | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
You could say Williams is being courageous; or instead that he is just thinking too too much. It seems to me another one of those needless confrontational things like the thoughts of a man who talks to himself too much and comes to believe he is the only one who eats marmalade or something. Mum? Budget! | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
I wonder if his nose hair blends with his moustache. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Victor Joynath De or Rowan Williams? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Online reaction to Williams's speech has been one of the most depressing bits of racist intoxication I can remember: "Whatever next - beheadings in the high street??!!" It's the sort of zealous trash that got directed against Jews in medieval times. A mystery that the UK could colonise so much of the world, yet gain so little understanding of it. You'd think all that imperial travel would've broadened a few minds: apparently not. These are savage times. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Sonic Youth Deterrent Should Be Banned" Absolutely. Everyone should own "Daydream Nation." Oh. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/02/12/nmosquito112.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedb ox | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
>>Victor Joynath De or Rowan Williams? Rowan. You can tell Victor's doesn't. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"World's Biggest Christ Struck By Lightning" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/worldnews.html?in_article_id=513855&in_page_id=1 811&Jesus - and Comment of the Day (given the story): "I Thought New York Was Safe." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/12/2008-02 -12_victim_of_nearfatal_sex_play_at_bondage_.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Why I Don't Have A Mobile" http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/02 /why_i_dont_have_a_mobile.shtml Unfortunately I no longer belong to this club. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Fall Destroys Rare Stradivarius." Another Mark E. Smith incident ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7242860.s tm | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
I keep coming here to post headlines, but then I decide not to. None of mine are ever funny. Just depressing political news. I think living in America is bad for my sense of humor. In any case, if you guys want to know about the FISA vote or Justice Antonin Scalia's torture interview with the BBC, you just let me know. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Israel hit by spring-roll strike" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/72425 51.stm Hi Dave: from a few people I know who live in the States I get a feeling that you might just be right about the depressing political news. Then again, "Headline of the Day" isn't just about funny. Anything which catches yr attention, whether it's shocking, amusing, weird or says something about the spirit of the age, is perfectly admissible. So, as I would refrain from saying to the Bush administration: fire away! BTW: how are you getting on with The Weight of Numbers? Finished it last week. Great book. Grim, funny, bizarre, complex and many other adjectives. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Hi, Dave - the USA leads in these headlines. To take just one, the link below has food fight madness, a dognapping mayor in Texas, pot vending machines, Masonic secrets of the Great Seal, and some tantric masochist immersing himself in ice for an hour. Not one word about the Primaries, either. http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/default.htm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Naked Cowboy Sues Mars for $6.5m" http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-naked-cowboy- sues/2008/02/14/1202760438896.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"China Bans Ghosts from the Internet" http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/china-ban s-ghosts-from-the-net/2008/02/14/1202760469180.htm l | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
The Titanic sails at dawn: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/m oney/2008/02/13/cnusa113.xml Some very serious stuff coming down. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Schools Pull Book About Penguin With Two Dads" http://wtopnews.com/?nid=732&sid=1344191 | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Hi Io, Martin, Yeah there are some ridiculous headlines coming out of America. But there's also stuff about FISA, waterboarding, the USAG purge, and the theater of waatching firends decide which of the two nearly identicle corporatist Democratic candidates they "need" to support. All pretty bleak. All going pretty much unnoticed by most Americans who aren't political junkies like me. We're in bad shape. The kind of shape that makes me feel so lonely and alienated that I'd like to just resign from the human race. There is one website that still offers hope though: http://www.naderexplore08.org/index.html I'm applying for a job with his committee. Io - Haven't even touched Weight of Numbers yet. Too busy. But yours is an endorsement I can trust, so that might motivate me to get reading it. I've had no free time lately: I'm executing the last stages of a life overhaul (new apartment, getting financially stable, FINALLY finishing my degree, new job) while working two heavy, demanding jobs. I predict I'll be done with it all by the end of March at which time I'll be able to live a settled life with time to read. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Same over here, Dave. It's just like the old Thurber cartoon of the woeful husband and his dog. His wife's had enough: "You're disenchanted? Well I'm disenchanted, too - we're all of us disenchanted!" | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Disenchantment indeed, Martin. I'm just sick and tired of experiencing the world through a disenchanted lens. Just read this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23168160/ It's just a random example, but this type of headline is reaching critical mass for me. I feel almost intolerably negligent when I consider pursuing a career in science with this going on in the background. It's leading me away from what I want for myself and into a fight that I didn't pick. This isn't my mess, but I think if people like me don't start cleaning it up, nobody will, so now I'm looking at research positions at vera.org and thinking about law school. On the other hand though, I hate the thought of eventually having kids in this country and a big part of me wants to just move to the Netherlands to get my PhD and set up a life there. Everything was so much simpler when I used to let myself just want to be a bassist. If only that still did it for me... I just had to go and yank myself out of the twink tank though. ;) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And I've just been cataloguing editorial files here in Oxford. First author's name? Sprake. You have to wonder about this stuff. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
What, pray tell, is Sprake writing about? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Children's books, sir. A strange world, and no mistake! | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Ha! Children's books? That's just great. That Sprake sure gets around, doesn't he? I can handle strange. It's the feeling that the world is broken that worries me. Sprake'd have a thing or two to say about that, I'm sure... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Machines 'to match man by 2029'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7248875. stm No need for disenchantment. Think positive. The BBC has made up a helpful to-do list for us: Make solar energy affordable Provide energy from fusion Develop carbon sequestration Manage the nitrogen cycle Provide access to clean water Reverse engineer the brain Prevent nuclear terror Secure cyberspace Enhance virtual reality Improve urban infrastructure Advance health informatics Engineer better medicines Advance personalised learning Explore natural frontiers Right: I'm going to reverse engineer the brain. Who's going to prevent nuclear terror? | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Fascinating article in today's Independent on Champix. A give up smoking drug, it has hallucinations and waking nightmares as its side effects. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Hallucinations? You mean - ? "Prince Philip rules the country behind the scenes. I think Prince Philip is the actual head of the Royal Family. He is a racist. He was brought up by his aunt who married one of Hitler's generals. This is the man who is in charge who is manipulating and can do anything. Time to send him back to Germany from where he comes. You want to know his original name – it ends in Frankenstein."" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/02/18/nburrell618.xml | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm somehow reminded of Lee Scratch Perry. As for Champix, I tried it - didn't have hallucinations or waking nightmares. Didn't quit smoking either. |