| Author | Message | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Porsche challenges C-charge rise" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7252092. stm One might be tempted to suggest that the C stands for something other than "congestion". | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Sex With Dead Model 'Was Wrong' " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7252746. stm Now they tell us ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"But he admitted there was no reaction during the sex attack, even when he bit Miss Bowman." Flanders & Swann warned us about this. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"It was on the Monday morning a necrophiliac came to call/He kissed her and he bit her, but she did nothing at all -" Rolling in the aisles. Then they had the big finale, and everyone sang "Mud, mud, glorious mud." Funny folk, that war-time generation. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
"Kafka Court" http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/179125.php You guys should watch what you say to me. Who knows who is listening in... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I always thought they came here anyway, to catch up on the cheap laughs and recommended reading. God bless us, one and all. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Actually, this is what they should be investigating: the most secret organisation in the world. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20 080219/NEWS05/802190359/1007/NEWS05 I can't remember how I found this news item. It was as if an occult hand led me to it ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And: "Killer Fish Terrifies Britain" http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23245 195-5005940,00.html Whatever, dude ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Looks oddly like Gordon Brown (texture like sun) on a bad day. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Hasta La Vista, Commie" - Various CIA schemes to off Fidel included: "Booby-trapped seashell: The idea was to take an unusually spectacular seashell that would catch Castro's attention, load it with an explosive triggered to blow when the seashell was lifted, and submerge it in an area Castro was known to frequent for skin-diving. The plan progressed so far that Desmond Fitzgerald, then head of the CIA's Cuban operations, bought **two books** on Caribbean mollusks. It was later decided the scheme was impracticable for a variety of reasons, among them that a midget submarine to have been used in placing the seashell had too short an operating range." *Two* books?? This was one serious spook! http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/19/c astro.top10/index.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Even Blowing His Nose, Obama Gets Applause" http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog /2008/02/even_blowing_his_nose_obama_ge.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Facebook sees first dip in UK users" http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/21/facebo ok.digitalmedia | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Toddler's Elmo Doll Makes Death Threats" http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/21/toddlers-e lmo-doll-makes-death-threats/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Did Adolf Hitler Draw Disney Characters?" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/02/23/whitler123.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox Sadly, not the revelation that he had a secret post-war career in Burbank, or helped cast those nice Aryan children for "Mary Poppins." | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Today, there was good news: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23321310#2 3321310 I'm elated. I'm going to apply for a job with his campaign. It feels so good to feel good about something political again. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I don't have any say in the election - but it does seem that whenever Hilary looks at Obama these days, she's thinking about something else: maybe even an old film. But whatever could it be? http://www.morethings.com/fan/blazing_saddles/blaz ing_saddles-cleavon_little.jpg | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Ralph Nader contrasts himself with Corporate America. Seems to me that Obama fits that description too, just as well at least. The hopelessness of Nader's candidacy illustrates a narcissistic streak in him. Strange that it should seem to be on so slight a thing as this cult of self in Nader - the very basis of corporate culture? (narcissism) - that we got George Bush and the catastrophe of Iraq. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Hmm - tho' that assumes that the 2% or thereabouts that voted for Nader would - had he not been there - have voted for Al Gore. And that Dubya's power grab / vote rigging wouldn't have just been extended a little had Nader not been in the race. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, I have to say that there is nothing anti-corporate about Obama. Absolutely nothing. Nader, on the other hand, is a public servant in the truest sense of the word and I doubt he's a narcissistic man. His behavior speaks too loudly to contrary. And blaming him for Bush, well, that's an absurd lapse in logic MJP. Gore won the election. Nader was not responsible in any fashion. The supreme court handed Bush the Office and Gore didn't even protest. We got Bush because nobody stopped what they were doing to say "no" loudly enough. Blaming Bush on the one sane voice in American politics just seems so defeatist to me. | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
The statistics do seem to illustrate that. Whatever his intentions Nader functioned as an electoral spoiler. Anyway, whatever might have been the case, was there any point to him being in that election, and is there any point in his being in the one now? I think you will find - unless I am very much mistaken - and I am rarely wrong - that woops ... wait a minute | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm a complete outsider, but it seems to me: McCain is surely too old; Hilary is desperate to get her chance at the pork barrel; and Obama - well, he's got charisma and the "new dawn" rhetoric that so many fell for in the UK with Blair - but I still have little or no idea what he stands for, and ( as you say, Dave) there's not one shred of anti-coporatism about him or his campaign. Were I a US citizen, I'd be scratching my head or checking who else is up for office. Also, I'd be worried about accountability: a paper trail at the polling stations, and scrutiny to prevent the kind of abuses so prevalent in 2004. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/wa s_the_2004_election_stolen | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Obama was against the Iraq war. That counts for a lot. McCain wasn't nor was Clinton. If Gore had got in there almost certainly wouldn't have been an Iraq war in the first place. Nader possibly took from his votes. Has that issue ever been addressed by Nader? Perhaps Gore fluffed it; perhaps he is stuck up or whatever. But Gore has produced global campaigns against climate change. More effectively than Nader. My criticism of Nader is that he should recognise his own limitations. He is not a politician but a one man pressure group. Good for him. But only up to a point. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
With all due respect MJP (and I say this without a bit of antagonism), you're missing the point: in a democracy, there is no such thing as an electoral spoiler. The point to him being the race is that, in as much as his voice is allowed to be heard, he drags the Democratic candidate further to the left. He acts as the guilty conscience of the Democratic party: if the Democrats were really small "d" democrats, they wouldn't have a problem with Nader. He also gives voice to all the issues that the other Candidates won't even touch (http://www.votenader.org/issues/). Furthermore, he is interested in reforming ballot access such that third parties become a more viable option in American politics. Martin, I'd caution you not to count McCain out. My best guess is that, one way or another, he'll be in the White House next. In any case, if any of you are interested in learing more about Nader, I'd highly recommend the documentary film called "An Unreasonable Man". The last lines of the film will resonate epecially strongly with MJH readers. ;) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But, hey - let's concentrate the big stories: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20080225/NEWS/802250315 "It just kind of brings us back to our roots." Ho, ho. Even on zoom, there's, um - nothing there ... | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Is this evidence that Jesus supports the Green Party? | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
I think my view is the general view of American Democrats as reported in the news. It has been reiterated many times over that they blame him for Bush getting in; so my position is hardly unusual. I think your position is Dave, at least logically. If by your logic such a candidate can drag the main contender further to the left, then by the same logic he can also deny him votes. So if voters vote for Nader, then they don't vote for the central candidate. Votes that don't go to that candidate(Gore in this case) that go to Nader, diminish the main candidate's constituency. But I don't want to hijack this thread so this is the last thing I'll say on the matter. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Once he gets out of that tree, Jesus may well want to relax with a good book - like, "I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen." http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/arts/ceriradford/feb0 8/cheeseproblemssolved.htm "What evils await Captain Henry Mitchell on the island below? A U.S. Navy fighter pilot, hes forced to abandon his Grumman after battling Japanese Zeros over the Pacific, but soon Japan is the least of his worries. Parachuting into rainforest canopy Mitchell is greeted by a lost tribe of pygmies and their insanely cruel leader, a female, a Caucasian westerner like himself who subjects him to unholy tortures both painful and erotic. How does she control the pygmies to carry out her sadistic punishments against him? What secrets are kept on this island? Secrets which she believes Mitchell has come to take from her? And how does a man deal with being tortured for answers to questions he knows nothing about? One strong man, stripped naked, bound and helpless, versus one female tyrant and her legion of little devils - who will win this battle?" http://www.powells.com/biblio/66-9781934625132-0 Maybe the author went on a pygmy management course, or something. Anyway, a restful night's sleep seems assured to each and every reader. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
A Rethuglican speaks in Salon.com's quote of the day: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/02/26/ qotd/ What an ass he is. He should try growing a brain. >>If by your logic such a candidate can drag the main contender further to the left, then by the same logic he can also deny him votes. So if voters vote for Nader, then they don't vote for the central candidate. Two points in response to this MJP: 1. It is impossible for one candidate to deny another candidate votes in a democracy. At least not by virtue of simply running for an office. Gore was not entitled to any votes, he was meant to work towards earning them. To the extent that Gore was the Democratic candidate, he should not have been running on a centrist platform. But he was obligated to because of his corporate funding. If he had responded to Nader's challange politically and idealogically, there would have been no challange. But he never strayed far from the well so to speak and, thus, stopped being a Democrat in any meaningful fashion. The same applies to Kerry only more so. Kerry seemed to believe he was entitled to votes though given that he and and the DNC launched a myriad of unconstitutional law suits that prevented Nader from even getting ballot access. Even with Nader almost totally out of the equation in 2004, the Democrats proved to be almost terminally incompetent. 2. You can deny a candidate votes by doing what Bush did in 2000: get your brother to have his Sheriffs set up road blocks that prevent ethnic minorites (who predominantly vote for the Democrats) from getting to their polling stations in time to vote. Or you could fabricate a list of Texas felons suspected of fleeing to Florida and prevent anybody in Florida with similar names from voting. That's denying a candidate votes. But, hey, that's how you win elections baby! This post got long. We should cut and paste this stuff and move it to another thread if you're interested in talking more about it. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Did L. Ron Hubbard Plagiarize Scientology?" http://www.iheartchaos.com/2008/02/27/did-lron-hub bard-plagarize-scientology-the-more-you-know/ | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Martin that's great. It opens up an interesting legal question too: Is scientology still tax exempt? This could provide a great opening for just demolishing the whole cult. One of the best hours of television ever, IMHO, was the Millenium spoof on scientology. So funny. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
"Famed geneticist creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel" http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/newsmlmmd. 58743dd5fb8b2e465eab3799a02bc35a.561.html Awe inspiring and terrifying in equal measures I'd say. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Did someone say ... Ron? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-moX_gduI He couldn't have converted me: I was too busy staring at the dreadful state of his teeth to hear a word he said. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Discovery of space soot casts doubt on dark energy theory" http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/feb/29/dark .energy | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
He's writing for a science magazine and is called "Ian Sample"??? But "carbon whiskers" is poetry. You can imagine Mandelstam or Paul Celan loving that phrase. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
I work here: "Top Rikers Drug Counselor Busted for Selling Heroin and Cocaine" http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archive s/2008/02/top_rikers_drug.php He was a therapist. Worked on a drug treatment unit. Sold drugs to drug adicted inmates. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
That's just capitalism, dude. So is this. Probably. "Art With Legs" http://www.adn.com/front/story/332328.html "This is Alaska, where our clothes horses parade before the awestruck crowds in garments of duct tape, balloons, guitar strings, bubble wrap, computer parts, paper clips and coffee beans." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Porn King" Paul Raymond dies. "Allowing members of the audience to ring the Ding-Dong girl's bells constituted an unruly house." This is where the rot set in, why we lost the colonies, etc. Did it get worse? I'm afraid so. He was also "a sponsor for Mark Thatcher's racing career." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/03/03/db0304.xml | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Czarnie Town": just beyond the phosphate mounds ... http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/03/me-for-the -carnies-gibtown-is-just-home-sweet-home/?news-bre aking | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"'Moses was high on hallucinogenic drug when he received Ten Commandments,' claims top academic" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=525993&in_page_id=1770 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"... When he went for treatment, the doctor said: keep taking the tablets." Atsa some joke, eh boss? http://www.roberthegyes.com/guest6.jpg | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Gays Cause Earthquakes" http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23257 384-5016480,00.html "They can't swim, they attract enemy radar ... they get up late. They muck about." - Chris Morris. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Never the gays - what about this lot? I mean, what about them? Eh? EH?" http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/articles/a0000226. html Ahem. I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like the only sane person left in a psychiatric ward where the inmates have been reduced to eating the furniture - and then each other. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Boriska, Boy from Mars, Says All Humans Live Eternally" And not only that: "He claimed that people would not find ancient knowledge under the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The knowledge will be found under another pyramid, which has not been discovered yet. “The human life will change when the Sphinx is opened, it has an opening mechanism somewhere behind the ear, I do not remember exactly,” he said. http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/05-03-2 008/104375-boriska_boy_mars-0 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Probably the most predictable 4 words in the English language: "Radiohead Win Guardian Award" http://www.guardian.co.uk/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Status Quo Fan Hangs Himself After Wife Left Him for Guitarist Rick Parfitt" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sho wbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=528851&in_page _id=1773 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Why Are Children So Unhappy?" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/educat ion-news/why-are-children-so-unhappy-794033.html Well, I wonder ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Fewer confessions and new sins" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7287071.st m The Vatican's current take on sin includes drug pushing, excessive wealth and environmental pollution. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I was walking Down the high street When I heard footsteps behind me - No, really: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article9 02014.ece | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Japan 'Cross-Breeding Cows With Whales' " "Scientists have analysed the 43 research papers produced by Japan after 18 years of killing whales and concluded they are useless, strange and esoteric." http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23339764-2,00 .html | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
'900 Feet Up With Nowhere to Go but Down' "He had learned this extreme form of tightrope walking from a homeless man who wrote books on quantum physics." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/sports/otherspor ts/14climber.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
By the way Martin, that article on the whales is pretty distrubing. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"They're a strange people - and their souls may not be as ours ..." - Tom Cruise (attrib.) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Dwarf Boxing at the James Joyce Bar: http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx ?storyid=76101 | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
I don't usually say this, but OMFG! ROFLMAO! This is not a joke. http://www.christvertising.com | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
His trousers look, um, surgically sewn into position ... | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
I just found it very confusing because I thought that in the Why section he seems to be wearing a pair of carrier bags on his feet. I though he was going to step off the stepping stones with them and into the water to illustrate some point in marketing or theology. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But more importantly - the real headline of the day: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/03/14/nshannon214.xml | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
Blimey! That family's been dragged through the mud, too. Anyway, on to more important things. Ikea has insulted Denmark. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article35 30501.ece "the Danes 'appear to underestimate the importance of floor-coverings'" | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I was delighted Shannon was found - but the more you hear, the stranger and seamier it gets. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Only in the "Daily Mail" : "Basil Brush Probed by Police over 'Racist Abuse' in Gypsy Spell Sketch" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=535329&in_page_id=1770 | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'How to control your Facebook friends' 91221-1310025%2C00.html,http://news.sky.com/skynew s/article/0,,91221-1310025,00.html I like the sound of that! *makes Zali jump up and down using Facebook* | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not a dog, but a horse. Called Panda. No relation to Shrander. Probably. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_articl e_id=122698&in_page_id=34 | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Acting world mourns Scofield' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7306378.s tm 'Summer Wine star Brian Wilde dies' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7306954.s tm It's non-stop at the moment... | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Brian May reveals more facets of his 'Rockberg'... http://www.sfxb.co.uk/vids/BrianMay.wmv | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Calls to mind that James Blish story, "Statistician's Day" - yes, groups of people who do the same thing do tend to die in clusters and, yes, there's an organization that insures they do. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Fish seller says "thank you" by getting crucified 15 times: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7305 522.stm - But whatever you're doing, enjoy the Easter break. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Like, it's not real, dude - http://www.reason.com/blog/show/125653.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Money minus sense = http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/22/corn.flake.ap /index.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"I've Been Raped by a Wombat" - http://stuff.co.nz/4453980a10.html and: "Arrest Warrant Issued for 'God'" http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,2204 9,23440568-5012895,00.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Evans admits taking magic mushrooms" http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/celebrity/news/art icle.aspx?cp-documentid=7896037 Chris Evans, at a Meatloaf gig, on magic mushrooms. Nightmarish. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Female Peacocks Not Impressed by Male Feathers" http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/26/peacock-f eathers-females.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Fine for back-to-front thong man" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_ce ntral/7314643.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Declining standards: "Radio 4 news hit by giggling fit" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7318173.s tm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
" A good face for radio," etc. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Child Maths Prodigy 'Working as Prostitute' " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/03/30/nprodigy130.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbo x | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"A 'Very Big Cat' is on the Loose in North Chicago" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-09032 9-cougar-chicago,1,1048724.story "Being a cat, it could be on the ground or up in a tree, or anywhere," the mayor said. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Science Fiction can seriously damage your health: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/03/28/nhelmet128.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
It's all in the Telegraph: "American caught having sex with picnic table" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/03/28/npicnic128.xml | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But perhaps this was a perfectly table relationship. We just don't know, do we? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And if it's not picnic tables, it's - http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/311045 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Sex (not a lot), drugs (let's not talk about it), and rock'n'roll (well, when I was 16, I -)" Perhaps the dullest interview. Ever. With anyone. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/01/nic kclegg.pressandpublishing I can think of household irons that have seen more of life than this. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Hey - let's ALL go to MARS!!!! With RICHARD BRANSON!!!!!!!!!! No - really: http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html Before you get too eager, though - remember today's date, children. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"George Bush Murdered on Hamas Puppet Show" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/04/01/whamas101.xml | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"UAE stages camel beauty contest" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/73257 90.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"It was almost as if Audrey was plugged in to another dimension." No mention of Thursbitch. http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/features/The -hills-are-alive-with.548300.jp | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Time travel will also be possible - in the future." So there's irony for you. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/e arth/2008/04/02/eakaku102.xml | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Interview with Michio Kaku, Mr Parallel Universe" I guess were all Mr Parallel Universe somewhere, or somewhen, or whatever. Hey, get Moorcock on the line - I've got an idea for a franchise! | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
But if time travel will be possible in the future, surely it also - by definition - immediately becomes possible in the present?(assuming of course that you can't travel only within the lifespan of the time machine itself) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
The main argument against the unlimited travel option: no one (so far as I know) has ever claimed to have been visited by holiday groups or temponauts from the year 3000. So either we're stuck with a physics which confines travel to the lifespan of a machine, making most travel into the past a logical impossibility - or else we occupy a quantum pocket in which time travel is a nonsense like perpetual motion. As a result, there were no tourists taking snapshots at Auschwitz, no block bookings for the grassy knoll in Dallas, no futuristic charabancs hanging about at Battery Park early on 9/11. Kuttner and Moore's "Vintage Season" shows no sign of turning from fantasy into fact. But it seems to me that if "quantum entanglement" can be applied to three dimensions for teleportation, you could also apply it to four. We'll see. Then again, all this recalls those wonderful extrapolation charts in "Profiles of the Future" or "The Man Who Sold the Moon," which predicted AI by 1990 or contact with ET civilizations just about now. Things never quite turn out the way a "Mr. Parallel World" would have us think. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
What will happen is this: Once we've discovered time travel, teleportation and perfected genetic engineering, we'll be disappointed that the only box we haven't ticked is discovering aliens. So we'll create an intelligent race, teleport them to the other end of the galaxy several million years ago and then we can go get our first contact buzz that we've been denied for so long. God bless the self-fulfilling prophecy. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
>Create an intelligent race Dude, that may well be the hardest part ...  | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
Yup, we certainly haven't managed it yet. Hmm. How do we know they're not out there? They would I suspect have very efficient ways to blend in - tho' to be honest you don't need to be very hi-tech, you just need to wear slightly off clothes and stand on the wrong side of the escalators on the tube and Hey Presto! You're a bog standard 21st Century tourist. | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Blair to urge key role for faith' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7327623.stm *vomits* | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Frankly, people do think you're a nutter." Frankly, people could well be right. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Anyway, at least Tony believes in a deity with a sense of humour: http://www.wisn.com/news/15774202/detail.html | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
The aliens arrived tens of centuries ago. It's not news and they aint pretty. I do think we need to accept that. Let's be absolutely and completely clear about it. As Blair would say. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
They've been busy ever since: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjhMvkReILY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYiiqGBWe0 - and now they're after our yoghurt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC_Iqpxjeyk | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil didn't apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism." But they "disavow" that now. Which is nice. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/04/memo_jus tified_warrantless_sur.php | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism" http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/04/0 2/turner-iraqi-insurgents-patriots-inaction-warmin g-cannibalism?fark | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"'I love it when music brings people to blows'" http://tinyurl.com/3yp3q5 (Been very impressed with what I've heard of Golijov. Went as far as to buy Ayre.) | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Forget the Internet: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/04/07 /the-internet-s-over-here-comes-the-grid-89520-203 75178/ Pete Townsend gave it the very same name forty years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifehouse_%28rock_ope ra%29 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Paging Mr. Moorcock. Paging Mr. Moorcock ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article36 89784.ece Also - you're a Christian! What arouses your wrath? Poverty? Injustice? That rash materialism that blinds so many to the endless joy of Creation? Perhaps. But ye have a far greater evil to contend with, yea the very coils of the Serpent made visible around ye: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4601126 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
'On vacation recently, there were some Christian fundamentalists at lunch at the next table and I felt the tension and constriction of their religious beliefs wafting off them like a perfume. That is my own projection, I’m sure, but I thought of something a friend used to say about that particular brand of religion — that it was like “looking at the ground with a flashlight when the whole universe was around you waiting to be noticed.” ' http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04 /05/well-actually-it-is-brain-surgery/index.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Man given heart of suicide victim marries donor's widow and then kills himself in exactly the same way" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/worldnews.html?in_article_id=557864&in_page_id=1 811 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Even more intriguing if you read the filler at the end: "Scientists say there are more than 70 documented cases of transplant patients having personality changes as they take on some of the characteristics of the donor. "Last month, a woman from Lancashire claimed her literary tastes changed radically following a kidney transplant. "Cheryl Johnson used to enjoy celebrity biographies and best sellers such as The Da Vinci Code. "But now she prefers classics such as Jane Austen's Persuasion and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment." | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Last month, a woman from Lancashire claimed her literary tastes changed radically following a kidney transplant. "Cheryl Johnson used to enjoy celebrity biographies and best sellers such as The Da Vinci Code. "But now she prefers classics such as Jane Austen's Persuasion and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment." | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Snap! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Don't you just you hate don't hate it when it when that it just happens? That happens? I know I do! | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
It was like sharing a limb. Perhaps on a rather shaky branch. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Sheep Replace Lawnmowers in Turin" http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2008-04-07/1016253.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"'I'm going down in history for this'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7322347.stm "He even got a mention in the coroner's summing up to the jury. "No one except you and I and, I think, the gentleman in the public gallery with Diana and Dodi painted on his forehead has sat through every word of evidence," said Lord Justice Scott Baker." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Four invisible fingers laid on the left shoulder, eh? So it was almost as if an occult hand made him do it ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Liverpudlians Decapitate Ringo Starr" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/ringo_deca pitated/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Seedy Gonzales Jailed in Lesbo Sperm Swindle" http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/justice/ article1017731.ece "Lesbo Sperm Swindle" - one heck of a band name ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Police Chief Michael Todd committed suicide by falling off Ben Nevis. His memorial service today featured an address by a Bishop, who said that his family "loved him to bits, and loved him when he was in bits." Terrible, Bish. Just terrible. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7341 964.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"In the next four years, humans will be offered salvation from representatives of 143,999 alien races." Hooray! http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/222623/ | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
>>Police Chief Michael Todd committed suicide by falling off Ben Nevis. Sadly, he didn't. Sorry to spoil a good joke, but he died on Snowdon and he didn't fall off anything. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, well. The thought was there! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"This was just a sign for me to not worry about what is going on in my life and that everything else is under control," Cruzada said. "It was an enlightening experience." http://www.local6.com/news/15875360/detail.html?tr eets=orlpn&tid=2653151906813&tml=orlpn_8pm&tmi=orl pn_8pm_1_07000304142008&ts=H | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
That's the Burger King 'king'. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"I Check Their Underpants to Ensure There is Only One Penis" - 'Authorities in northern Sweden have discovered that some drug abusers have been using dildos to help them submit fake urine samples. ' "Withnail & I," wasn't it ..? http://www.thelocal.se/11140.html | ||
| al Username: al Registered: 11-2006 |
'Flies get mind control sex swap' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7350403.stm 'Scientists have been able to take control of flies' brains to make females behave just like males.' Nothing in that mad scientist stereotype, then... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Insect sex, eh? I'm starting to see some kind of a pattern ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/ar ts/2008/04/18/bfisabella118.xml | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
They should have seen this coming: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7354089.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"How Things Will Be In 2058" Basically, thirsty people will travel FTL, and they won't keep cats. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24201711/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Sting gives amateurs one last chance to star with Police" http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_an d_entertainment/music/article3799127.ece | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
He did it because he was asked - which makes a change from "just obeying orders": http://nwitimes.com/articles/2008/04/23/news/top_n ews/docf6a35b9d5a72e89d8625743300832e52.txt | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
I've been MIA again recently, but I had to come out from under my rock and post this one: "Baghdad to get ‘Disneyland’ style amusement park" The park's lease holder has said "I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t making money [but] I also have this wonderful sense that we’re doing the right thing" http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/24/baghdad-to-get -disneyland-style-amusement-park/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Albert Hoffmann, he dead! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7374846.st m | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Teen in Bomb Plot Wanted to 'Kill Jesus'" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/29/national /main4056750.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4056750 "A teen accused of plotting to blow up his high school told police that he wanted to die, go to heaven and kill Jesus." Let's face it, we've all been there. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Things Your Body Can Do After You Die" http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/04/30 /dead.bodies/index.html?fark | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Vampire Sex" - the shocking craze that's corrupting today's kids. "He was happy to see her again when she tapped him on the shoulder in a sex shop, and asked him to buy her a whip for her 16th birthday." I blame Lou Reed. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23651135-2927 7,00.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Ex-military, rising barrister in the field of family law shot dead by police: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/07/ukguns.lo ndon How *very* sad. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
We were just discussing this in the office. The "Telegraph" notes his catch-phrase after a few drinks was: "I'm a bloody good lawyer." Apparently, during the seige he kept shouting: "I'm ex-Army." Now he's not anything. On a lighter note, though, searching similar names on Wikipedia brings up this name from the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Sanders_(Wiccan) I blame Dennis Wheatley. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
I enjoyed this: "I had been sitting outside with a friend five minutes before. At first I thought they were firecrackers, or that he was shooting at a cat or something in a tree; but then I saw the shotgun." Is it normal to shoot at cats in trees in Chelsea? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
And a Falklands vet has given us a poem about the incident: http://rogue-gunner.blogspot.com/2008/05/armed-pol ice-shoot-dead-ex-british.html | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
"Company floats ads in 'clouds' shaped like corporate logos" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi -050708-cloud-ads-may08,0,2726261.story?track=rss The first lines are a sure sign that the end is very, very, very fucking nigh: "Picture the Manhattan skyline filled with Nike swooshes. Or the golden arches of McDonald's gently drifting over Los Angeles. A special-effects entrepreneur from Alabama has come up with a way to fill the sky with foamy clouds as big as 4 feet across and shaped like corporate logos — Flogos, as he calls them." The last line: "Everybody thought it was neat," he said. Neat little clouds in the sky. Trying to sell you shit. Oh yeah. Things really are this bad. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"My sympathies to Mark Saunders' family, motherf***er." Quite. Dave: yes, the end is surely here, and most of those little clouds say "Vote Hillary." Terrible, innit? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
With a death toll constantly rising, from 10,000 up to perhaps 100,000, it's good to know that nationality still counts for something: "17 Britons missing in Burma" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/08/cyclon enargis.burma3 "She said there was as yet no reason to believe the missing Britons were in any danger." Jolly good. And let's hope they didn't lose their stash of cheap rubies either. I'm sorry but after almost forty years of military rule where attempts at establishing civilian rule in two generations have been brutally put down, where they imprison their democratically elected prime minister, ransack villages to provide slave labour for goverment projects, shoot monks... and the list goes on and on. And then they get a cyclone devastating the biggest city. What could be worse? Well, what's worse is that the government moved the administrative capital into Naypyidaw a few years back so they can quite happily not give a toss about the situation down south. The court astrologer came up trumps this time. Some guys have all the luck. So I'm sorry if a few Brits might have been inconvenienced but it looks like a drop in the human ocean from here. To quote my late aunt the last time she came back from Burma, "the family said to me, "when you go back west - tell them we have oil!"." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"17 Britons ..." Our traditional approach to world news! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Kx9CyYPAQ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Precisely so. Meanwhile The Daily Star wins this weeks prize for insignificant death: no it's not divorce lawyers who are fond of hunting or tens of thousands of Johnny Foreigners, it's... "Gazza Dead & Gone For Good" http://www.dailystar.co.uk/ourpaper/view/2008-05-0 8 Unfortunately Bianca is exaggerating but: cor what a stunna! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
What a very attractive young lady ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
But, hey - the BVM is *back*: http://www.wlbz2.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx ?storyid=86461 | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
Only in the irony-free USA: Senator Doug Stoner sponsors a bill to outlaw 'pot' flavour candy. http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16186311/detail.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Ancient Sea Creatures 'Dressed Up' in Diamonds" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/e arth/2008/05/08/scifashion108.xml | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Wonder if he's related to Eugene Stoner the inventor of the M16 assault rifle? Not that one would ever suggest banning guns in the US. Right to bare arms and all that. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"...ancient sea creatures liked to doll themselves up with diamonds imported from outer space..." Man, that's so beautiful! Sounds like they're not taking the regrading of cannabis seriously at The Telegraph. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Right to bare arms," eh? Especially on a sunny day! | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
It's gotta be better than armed bears, no? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not sure, dude - check out the $21.99 Special Bear Service Set here! Burnum the Platypus looks well dubious, though ... http://my-store-at.fun1designertoycollecting.com/p age17.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And General Motors admits: "Human Cadavers Used in Auto Crash Tests" http://www.thelocal.se/11604.html?mmm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
What a great paper! "Matilda, 4, bitten by beaver" http://www.thelocal.se/11544/20080505/ "Ozzy the turtle returns after two year odyssey" http://www.thelocal.se/11508/20080502/ "Underwear with condom pockets takes top prize" http://www.thelocal.se/11606/20080507/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Having said that: "Cartoon policeman and dolphin to warn children about online paedophiles" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/art icle3892949.ece | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm a bit concerned about the seahorse's naked lower regions dangling out of the uniform. Has Chris Morris infiltrated the toon house? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
US troops in Iraq take out their frustrations on stuffed dolls: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DANG_IT_DOL LS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=200 8-05-12-03-31-34 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Aussie straps in beer, not child" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7397 867.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Europe could get manned spaceship" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7398517.stm "It also has a pressurised section that is "human rated" in the sense that, once docked to the 340km-high station, astronauts can move around inside it safely in just T-shirts." Astronauts without trousers?!?! The mind recoils! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Dr. Who Fan in Knitted Puppet Row" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7400268.s tm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
And don't worry that they look like they've been borrowed from Lovecraft. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"England will not exist by the year 2000" http://www.charlotte.com/409/story/617920.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Pope Says Thanks to Virgins" http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197 ,23707311-12335,00.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Tyrone people 'typically thick'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/740422 7.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Naked Ugg boot ram-raider jailed" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwic kshire/7404582.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Hard times, the nice decade is over, etc.: "Anecdotally I know a lot of people who buy a nice bottle of something, and a supermarket ready meal or order in a takeaway, because the mark-up on wine in restaurants is bloody greedy," says Ray. "I think a lot more of that will be happening in the months to come." You don't say ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Community Rallies to Support Beheaded Ant" http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl e?AID=/20080519/NEWS/80519022 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Gay wedding for Star Trek's Takei" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7410431.s tm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Belgian beer fans unveil urinal video game" http://uk.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKL1967155 420080519 Presumably a rival to the Nintendo Wii... I'll get my coat. | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
How about a game with the pee-ers (pee-er groups?) shooting aliens on Uranus? ... I'll get my space suit. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Do wee look forward to a pee-cee version? It will be the number one, or at least number two, game for the summer. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Nigerian Taxi Drivers Strike For Missing Penis" http://www.anorak.co.uk/strange-but-true/184242.ht ml | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
The toughest job in Britain: "Sports scientist Dr Joanna Scurr studied over 100 women running on a treadmill with sensors attached to their breasts to measure how much they wobbled." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2047532/Bre ast-wobble-could-hold-key-to-womens%27-chest-pain. html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Great tit finds home in ashtray" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_ce ntral/7423903.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Which was nice. | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
What about its companion? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Parents dump IVF twins 'because they were girls'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/29/chil dprotection.children You dumped yr IVF twins. You're such a girl! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Paging Anton LaVey - "At the next morning’s Shakespeare lecture, Haddo appears with a shaven head, declares that the bard was an occultist and urinates over his students. It’s clear that the professor is not quite himself – in fact, he’s been ‘possessed’ by [Aleister] Crowley, who plans to stay in this new body. "And it’s really from this point that things go downhill fast ..." *From* this point? Oh, dear ... http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/films/1152/che mical_wedding.html | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
"Monkeys Control a Robot Arm With Their Thoughts" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain. html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Notice that the monkey's head is not visible in the photos. I wonder how messed up he is. I wonder if he'd use that robot arm to strangle the scientists who did that to him... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Harvey Korman, RIP. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/tv/193695 19.html Korman prissily correcting Mel Brooks's American pronunciation in "High Anxiety" (as Brooks muses over the autopsy report on his luckless predecessor) still creases me: "That's *cerebral* haemorrhage, I think you'll find - " Sadly, in real life, it turned out to be just that. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And if it wasn't so grotesque, you'd swear Bush has been reading Hunter Thompson. "There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!" Res ipse loquitur, gentlemen. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/general-r icardo-sanchezs_n_104664.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
The end of the world as we know it: "RepRap does for manufactured goods what the mp3 format did for music. When anyone can make anything, including the machine that does the making, and swap the designs over the net, an awful lot of middle men aren't a lot of use any more." - Anyone remember John Sladek's novel, "The Reproductive System" ..? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/e arth/2008/06/04/scirobot104.xml | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"The Bristol team is now working on a robot that can "poo" - remove its waste material - though Prof Melhuish says "we still have some way to go."" | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not just Bush who's been reading HST, either: "savage and unnatural" behaviour here, as Gonzo hits high school - http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/sto ries/2008/06/05/clayton_teacher_arrest.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Fake Bus Stop Keeps Alzheimer's Patients From Wandering Off" http://tinyurl.com/4karat | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Physicists Have 'Solved' Mystery of Levitation" "The force is due to neither electrical charge or gravity, for example, but the fluctuations in all-pervasive energy fields in the intervening ****empty space**** between the objects and is one reason atoms stick together." http://tinyurl.com/49ls42 Ten years of endemic facetiousness, at the cutting edge of particle physics! | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Now all we need is non-pollutive free energy and we're fixed. No more traffic jams. No more pollution. Phew. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"The Casimir force is the ultimate cause of friction in the nano-world..." As I have been saying for such a long time. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Vomiting Australian PM blames pie" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7439 515.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Eight Signs Your Partner Is Addicted to Porn" Something is wrong with your relationship, but "you can't quite put your finger on it." Right ... But: doesn't seem interested in you, and is "wedded to the Internet." Gosh. I'd never have guessed. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,364749,00.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"'Exciting times' for migraine business" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7445536.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Intelligent People Less Likely to Believe in God" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Int elligent-people-'less-likely-to-believe-in-God'.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Sorry: trapped by the short and cURLies again - try this link instead: http://tinyurl.com/5n5rea | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Mud phobia pig gets its own boots" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire /7448006.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"With God there's no question of money." http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/33953 Maybe it's just me - but I think Jesus would be a lot happier if Mr. Arman spent the $60m on the poor and the homeless. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Ah, I dunno. He was funny like that. Think about the young lady who anointed him. Worth 300 denarii, I heard. Shocking waste of perfume! | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
And The Best Use of Inverted Commas Award goes to: " Guantanamo inmates 'have rights' " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7451139. stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"I honestly believed that if you shoot somebody, that they would get back up." Teenagers, eh? What are they like? http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=5040342&page =1 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Christian Theologians Prepare for Extraterrestrial Life" "Others also say that aliens may not have fallen into sin, instead existing in a state of grace, neither having nor needing Jesus. In that case, missionaries would have no call to convert them. "Would sin be the same on another planet as we conceive of it here? Would there even be sin, or would God be present to that species in a completely different way?" says Richard Randolph, a Kansas City University ethicist. - Not one mention of James Blish's "A Case of Conscience," either. http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/06/al ien_religion | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Dissappointing novel that. | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
I agree | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"SF Masterwork," innit? Some things I read as an SF omnivore still move me (you know the obvious suspects) - but others, well ... I just haven't the time or mental energy to push myself through Ellison or Delany's ideas of prose any more; Zelazny now reads like an anxiously bright student who's just discovered comparative religion; and Bradbury seems to have stopped noticing the culture or the way actually people speak sometime around 1954. I haven't read Blish in years. I thought his shorter stuff much better than his novels, but even at 15 I had enough nous to sense how uneven he was. I never managed to get through "Bug Jack Barron," either. Anyone want to own up to similar lapses? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
You'd be surprised at the SF classics that I've failed to finish. Or maybe not. I'm now old enough to realise that at the end of the day I just liked the pictures. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Looking back, I think a lot of them were substitute literature: stand-ins for this real, awkward world, or airless abstractions from its problems of school, sexuality, and the gnawing existential awareness that one day my parents would both be dead - how on earth would I cope? An observation about submersive escapism which is anything but new here, of course. The authors I went on reading, like Ballard or Disch, recognised those problems as "life and life only," and used them to draw their pictures anyway. I'm glad they did. Interestingly, though - was there one sf work where you thought "this really is utter *crap*," and began to widen your taste? I think "Stranger in a Strange Land" (another doorstop-sized bit of tosh I could never get into - despite the fetchingly topless woman bathing on the cover of the New Englsih Library edition) probably did it for me! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Romanian Village Re-Elects Dead Mayor" http://tinyurl.com/6n6dcg "I know he died - but I don't want change." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Talking Doll 'Establishes Direct Communication With Jesus' " http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/16/talking-doll- establi.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Another doll story - not quite a substitute for the real thing, though. http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84713&vi deoChannel=6 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
- And why not? "In this week's issue of the magazine we publish a story about the work of Gail Anderson, a forensic entolomologist at nearby Simon Fraser University whose work consists largely of throwing dead pigs off the side of boats and then watching them decompose on the sea floor." http://tinyurl.com/5yfsm5 | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
That kind of research work is about as off as you an get, but really does have tremendous applied value. If you want to read some weird stuff, look up "Antropological Research Foundation" or ARF, affectionately known as BARF. If people knew the potential consequences of donating their bodies to science, I think far fewer people would. Can you imagine kicking the bucket, then being sent to ARF to decompose, say in a wrecked car that gets full sun, just so crime scene investigators can establish accurate estimates for time of death? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Son Turns His Dead Dad Into Teapot" http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/06/23 /son-turns-his-dead-dad-into-a-teapot-89520-206179 24/ | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
I read that to Gillian just now Martin. She asked if it was weird that she found it a little endearing. I said yes. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
...Milk and sugar? | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
The article has me thinking though. I wonder what household items I might want to turn family members into. My mom's a little small for a tablecloth, but I'll come up with something. | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
Did just cross a line with that last post? Maybe I did... :s | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
No worries, Dave - but you could be starting the most unusual thread ever seen on this forum. Which is saying something. My dad the coal scuttle, etc. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Others maintain it was a monumental mix-up after aliens on a planet orbiting the star 61-Sygni mistakenly assumed that the 1883 eruption on Krakatoa was an attempt by earthlings to communicate with them." - Damn those pesky Sygnians! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/r ussia/2231632/Russian-scientists-in-bid-to-solve-T unguska-Event.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Drunken Swede tries to row home from Denmark" http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/UKOddlyEnoughN ews/~3/323315214/idUKL3028431620080630 | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"3 dead in Jerusalem bulldozer rampage" http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/02/israel.b ulldozer/index.html?eref=rss_latest | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Faceless Figures Cause a Stir at Wimbledon" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou tthat/2238138/Faceless-figures-cause-a-stir-at-Wim bledon%2C-Harrods-and-Elton-John%27s-ball.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Ian Curtis Leaves Cemetery" Well - nearly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7486 280.stm | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Teenager finds bat asleep in bra" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7496923 .stm "A teenager who thought movement in her underwear was caused by her vibrating mobile phone found a bat curled up asleep in her bra." Kids these days, huh? | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
The financial world hangs in the balance with the fate of FANNY MAY and FREDDIE WILL - ? What phildickian nonsense is that? Do they actually exist? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Ideally one might suggest that in fact nothing else exists except as a syzygistic parade of emanations. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Island row hits Japanese condoms" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7511 065.stm | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Syzygistic / syzygetic - I say potato you say patato. I can see them spending a lot of column inches on that condom topic. Condemn or condom ? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
I almost typed "syzygystyc". | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Natural Selection in Action - Darwin Awards, 2008: http://www.kokasexton.com/word/2008/05/14/2008-dar win-awards/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"World's Oldest Joke Traced to 1900 BC" http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24106126-3820 0,00.html I'll get my tunic ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm tempted - anyone else? http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/07/25/retreat-to-an- ewok-eco-spheres-in-trees/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
The BBC are providing a rich multitude today: "Firm claims first pet dog clones" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7542 338.stm "Orgasms 'at the touch of a button'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3395507.stm "Germany hails 'bullet-proof bra'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7541675.st m | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
io, you missed one: 'Woman Sells House to Clone Pet Dog' (story on Yahoo) | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Woops, I mean I missed one. I think the Yahoo wording is better however. It is just a matter of time before a fellow human being is priviledged with the same option. | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
"Sexual harassment ensures survival of human race, judge rules" http://tiny.cc/uZXvl | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Franz Kafka's Porn Brought Out of the Closet" "Kafka had a strongly visual imagination, and the importance of the visual arts for him hasn't yet been fully explored." Indeed. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_an d_entertainment/books/article4446131.ece | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Hi Martin. That is interesting but not surprising. What is not altogether believable is the response: "So Kafka was human after all." I don't understand what the writer intends by that. Kafka makes no bones about his interest in sex. He describes being invited to it by prostitutes waiting outside his window. In The Castle there is a graphic sex scene behind a bar in puddles of beer ... So the inference isn't very objective. One is inclined to respond: what inference - that he was human? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
My response, too. And after publication of Joyce's love letters, is anyone really surprised that these fantasies have common (at least, common male) currency? All a bit sad. | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Yes, we (men) are all nastier than we would like to think, I think. (With the exception of me of course - ?). That is what I found personally disturbing about that Austrian Fritzl. The utterly cruel things men do to women signalled in huge print. It might be said, here, that Kafka wasn't that kind either to the women he knew; he wrote tremendous love letters but I think in practice he could be very very tiresome for them. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Bob Dylan Sums Up British Property Woes for Brixton Chief" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/m oney/2008/08/19/bcnbrix119.xml Oddly, Tim the chief (as in: the joker and the - ? Never mind) seems unaware that Dylan's lyric calls down utter damnation on him and every other swinish profiteer who can't tell price from value. You might think the message would've got through to them by now. As we all know, though, "people don't live or die, people just float," etc. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Cows Automatically Point to the North" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou tthat/2623809/Cows-point-north-thanks-to-in-built- compasses.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Brass Eye," anyone? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050130/On -run-Paedophile-Gary-Glitter-seeks-police-protecti on-hate-mob-discovers-seaside-bolthole.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Mail" readers are not only het up about Glitter and incensed by life in general - they're also deeply confused about their astral destiny. Any guesses how this works? Or do we think it'll just turn out to be yer basic numerology/debased gematria? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1050027/ Revealed-The-mystical-symbol-holds-key-personality -change-life.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Petra the Blue Peter Dog Was a Fake" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2661567/Petra-the- Blue-Peter-dog-was-a-fake.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Money + old rope = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7598549.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"The Punk Rock Premier" Thatcher "was the Siouxsie Sioux of politics ...the mythic Queen of the Night, the priestess taking power in a phallic male world and prompting either revulsion or admiration." Feeling ill yet? Full bollocks here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1053300/Th e-Punk-Rock-Premier-How-Lady-Thatcher-tried-halt-t ide-decline-Britain.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"How Would the US Military Fight a Zombie Army?" http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2783/how- would-the-u-s-military-fight-attack-by-a-zombie-ar my "Brain-dead losers can't possibly continue. Yet somehow they do." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Obviously, a primate will speak: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religio n/2910447/Charles-Darwin-to-receive-apology-from-t he-Church-of-England-for-rejecting-evolution.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Now That's What I Call Capitalism! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?MLC=/m oney/city_news/markets&xml=/money/2008/09/16/bcneb ay116.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox - It's getting like cannibals eating each other, isn't it? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Giant knickers put out house fire" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7167549.st m | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
http://www.unclezipsbeefjerky.com | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Tony Blair Will Be As Celebrated as Winston Churchill" By, um, Cherie Blair. And the Blairettes. Possibly. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politic s/labour/3108724/Tony-Blair-will-be-as-celebrated- as-Winston-Churchill-claims-Cherie.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Do Dolls Deliver Islamic Message?" http://www.kjrh.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_ id=5c383aca-c3d2-4b3d-b4a5-5a8108ba4971 A better question might be: does anyone outside the Midwest seriously believe a devout Muslim would say "Satan is King"? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Smell of Outer Space to Be Recreated" http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/10/17/Fri ed_steak_and_metal_smell_of_outer_space_to_be_recr eated | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Swedish Hockey Fans Delay Match With Dildo Downpour" http://www.thelocal.se/15138.html | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
(Expensive) lipstick on a pig: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/pain s-makeup-stylist-fetches-highest-salary-in-2-week- period/ Is it possible to, oh...I don't know, resign from the human condition? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"This project was the vision of two young people who as Christians have an interest in young people and horses and were keen to put the two together." I wouldn't have put it quite like that, personally ... http://www.woodley-network.info/Groups/74627/The_N etwork/Just_Around_the/Therapy_Through_Horses/Ther apy_Through_Horses.aspx | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1082810/ I-caught-deadly-flesh-eating-bug--just-touching-fa ce-I-did-gardening.html The url says it all. Except - well, the bug doesn't seem to have eaten very *much* of her, does it kids? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job" http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_ man_given_nations | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Iraq war 'violated rule of law'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7734712.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Transvestism 'No Longer a Disease' in Sweden" http://www.thelocal.se/15728/20081117/ Not to mention: "Witches Help LIft Sweden's Job Loss Curse" http://www.thelocal.se/15760/20081118/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"BNP members 'targeted by threats'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7736794.stm Ahhh, poor things! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Guardian: "The BNP leader admitted the party was relying on the Human Rights Act, based on EU legislation, which it opposes, to try to protect the privacy of its members." | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
Find your nearest odious scumbag. http://www.localgibson.com/bnp/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Green Party admits leading activists on BNP list" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/art icle5197862.ece "At least they'll make the trains run on time," Rev John Stanton was reported to have said. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
This isn't entirely a surprise. The Nazis drew on an audience of young hikers, naturists, and earth worshippers who responded to the same mysticism of the soil - and, notoriously, Hitler was vegetarian into the bargain. There were a great many idealistic currents eddying around Nazism which got sucked into its rhetoric. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Triumph of Western Democracy Not Certain" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/barack -obama-president-intelligence-agency | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Join us today. Do, er, come again. http://www.thelocal.se/15786.html - Does *anyone* in Sweden lead a remotely normal existence ..? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"What is the point of Woolworths?" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7741199.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
BNP? Time for laffs: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNUuqlG1a0 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Chris Morris HOTD: "Cat Born Without Eyelids" - too revolting to show, says editor. Actually: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou tthat/3526030/Cat-born-without-eyelids.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Christ Morris HOTD, 2: "Cardboard Figure Keeps Police at Bay" http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/cardboard _figure_keeps_police.html | ||
| mjp Username: mjp Registered: 10-2006 |
Hey wait a minute, what about that "Amateur astronomer spots tool box in space"? Yesterday. I thought someone would pick that up. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
I liked the "Amateur Astronomer Spots Origin of the Universe from Back Garden," too! | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
- And in a late, shocking entry for today's prize: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religio n/3531418/Vatican-warns-mobile-phones-are-bad-for- the-soul.html - Cool pic, Pontiff ... | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Swede Named in White House Chef Speculation" - I think it's between the swede and a mutant King Edward ... http://www.thelocal.se/15930/20081126/ | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Oddly enough, I'd predicted the Pope's reaction back in 2001. Thanks to The Wayback Machine at archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20010425083917/iotar.8m .net/mobiles.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
>> the swede and a mutant King Edward... Isn't that an old Malcolm Moonie Can number? Ah no, that's The Empress & The Ukraine King. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Telecom exorcist clergy"?! So, er, the handset just lies there, spewing green fluids and rotating emoticons while some lad in a beretta puts it through to a Vatican call centre? Weirds me out, dude. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Perhaps they meant this lot: http://www.ok.co.uk/worldinaction/view/5514/Meet-t he-cheerleading-nuns/ Father Steven "said he was excited to be there." And no wonder, eh kids? | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Noughties remake of Don't Look Now, maybe? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
... or "the morphine-addled world of Sister Gertrude": http://www.amazon.co.uk/Killer-Nun-Anita-Ekberg/dp /B000W2226Q | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"M-way covered by sweets and beer" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7753931.stm "Part of the M42 is shut after a six-vehicle crash sent marshmallows and beer spilling out onto the carriageway." | ||
| dan Username: dan Registered: 10-2006 |
>> "Swede Named in White House Chef Speculation" This may come in handy: http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dial ect=bork&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitehouse.gov | ||
| dave Username: dave Registered: 10-2006 |
"As the credit crunch bites, Britons may be turning to sex as a cheap way to pass the time, a charity says." http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20081201 _tough_times_could_lead_to_sex_boom/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Not that cheap after all, as it turned out. See for yourself: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/u s-man-mistakenly-shoots-wife-during-sex-1053524.ht ml | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Irish pork contamination probed" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7770476.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
She's back! Tanned, fit, rested - and very appealing. Probably. "She comes out because she wants everyone to know its her birthday and it's something she wants us to celebrate. It's just something that she's happy for." http://www.azfamily.com/news/homepagetopstory/stor ies/phoenix-local-news-120408-mary-jesus-sightings .2fdf7da4.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Archaeologists Find Piece of String Dating ABck 8,000 Years" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou tthat/3681143/Archaeologists-find-piece-of-string- dating-back-8000-years.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Jesus Was Born in June" 'If the team is correct, it would mean Jesus was a Gemini, not a Capricorn as previously believed.' Gosh ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/368784 3/Jesus-was-born-in-June-astronomers-claim.html | ||
| alex Username: alex Registered: 10-2006 |
Well that explains the duality. It's about time poor old Sophia got a look-in. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"FDA Lists Handgun for the Handicapped" http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/08/palm-pist ol-gun.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Bible Probably Not True, Says Bush" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northame rica/usa/3686695/Bible-probably-not-true-says-Geor ge-Bush.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Chefs' award for lard sculptures" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/77747 42.stm | ||
| dan Username: dan Registered: 10-2006 |
The BBC's got in on our act! http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/index.h tml#a051477 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Playgirl Buddha Sparks Outrage" http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/playgirl- buddha-sparks-outrage/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"How I Cut the Cost of Xmas Shopping by £300" - "Here's how I cut the cost of my festive shopping by more than a third ... without turning into Scrooge." Only £700 to find, then. Hard times are certainly beginning to bite ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance /consumertips/3830686/How-I-cut-the-cost-of-Christ mas-shopping-by-300.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Half-Ton Teenager Has Five Stones of Fat Cut Off" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/41735 32/Half-ton-teenager-had-five-stones-of-fat-cut-of f.html - Hurrah! | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"It's time to redesign the guitar" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jan /06/popandrock Obviously he's never heard of the bulbul tarang. | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Big Bopper's Coffin to Be Sold on E-bay" http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/features/national/4771/ Big+Boppers+Coffin+To+Be+Sold+On+E-Bay | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Britons panic buying last stocks of conventional lightbulbs" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politic s/4145283/Britons-panic-buying-last-stocks-of-conv entional-lightbulbs.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
And you thought the Midwich Cuckoos were fantasy ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southame rica/brazil/4307262/Nazi-angel-of-death-Josef-Meng ele-created-twin-town-in-Brazil.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Ottowa Boy's Invisible Invention Warns Birds About Deadly Windows" http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/21/ot-0 90121-bird-decals.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Knitted Breasts Help Mothers" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7845426.stm | ||
| dan Username: dan Registered: 10-2006 |
Is the Ottowa Boy going to invent a Mac version? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Invisible inventions are everywhere! http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.800 -ten-scifi-devices-that-could-soon-be-in-your-hand s.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Study reveals 'shocking' kebabs" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7852168.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Mr. News is knocking at the door - someone, let that man in!" 'Cello Scrotum Revealed as Hoax' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou tthat/4368809/Cello-scrotum-revealed-as-medical-ho ax.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
England dies! But you survive!! What's it going to be like? "You can steal food from supermarkets but the rotting corpses on the floor of Sainsbury's will be fetid fonts of infection." No change there, then ... After you with the birch bark tea: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/29 /apocalypse-survival-guide-tanya-gold "I now have blood-lust." Well, indeed. Who wouldn't, if this was your one companion? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Boy's Wrapped Birthday Present Is Dad Back from Iraq" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/29/ap/stran ge/main4763302.shtml?source=RSS&attr=_4763302 His parents obviously aren't Velvets fans: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-YiaWDgB4 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Snow-Crazed Stoat Goes Beserk" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7875271.stm | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Mark Chapman Is Innocent!" It was, um - well: http://www.mysuncoast.com/Global/story.asp?S=98595 27&nav=menu577_2_1 | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
"Lawmakers Want to Ban Eyeball Tattoos" http://www.ksbitv.com/home/ticker/39997522.html This is Political Correctness gone mad, etc. | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
"Man 'waged urine-spray campaign'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire /7906639.stm?lss "He then moved on to Waterstones bookstore in Cirencester where it is alleged he sprayed the substance from a spray container all over a toilet in the coffee shop. In total 706 books were contaminated." But why were there 706 books in the coffee shop toilet? | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Evolution in action - and almost a Breughel painting: "Woman Fell to Her Death While Chasing a Feather" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4785833/Woman-fell -to-her-death-while-chasing-a-feather.html | ||
| iotar Username: iotar Registered: 6-2006 |
Anything mythic about that death is entirely absent from the health and safety obituary: "It is a tragedy. This cliff is about 80ft high. Fencing is there to protect people from falling." | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Or maybe she was chasing the down curve. The Economy: all you need to know - http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/02/24/52824/c harting-the-dow/ | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
Chris Morris - I Am "Fish Has Transparent Head" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou tthat/4797025/Fish-has-transparent-head.html | ||
| martin Username: martin Registered: 10-2006 |
It's not 1st April: surprisingly. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1154984/Pi ctured-The-moment-Frank-Bruno-shook-hands-Yorkshir e-Ripper--Jimmy-Savile-looked-on.html |