Just a few branched wanders away from blo.gs–
The Passionate Skeptic has found interesting commentary about the difference between French and American school meals and what it says about the two cultures.
Pixelforge wonders why we’re afraid of the chemical weapon boogeyman
The Daily Dystopian reminds us of the cowboy code
Rachel (or one of the other Gaggle of Girls) tries to Fisk Michael Moore, but just proves irony deficient.
I signed up with Ample last week so I could enter a competition to win a �4000 ISA (mum and dad will be so pleased). I received my first e-mail from them today, headlined ‘Betting on War and Terrorism’
In future I should remember not to do quick tests on the live index page.
Blogger seems to be having issues keeping me logged on, and now with sending updates to my server. Normal service should be resumed at the same time as this post is written.
It seems that my hits counter is still running since the change, but the hits logger isn’t. No more disturbing search requests until Daz (or I, you never know) figures out why.
And it was such a lovely sunny day too.
The BBC is charting developments hour by hour.
Robin Cook has quit the Government, the little ginger man may be followed by other ministers.
The Attorney General says it’s all legal.
The fascists over at FreeRepublic consider it a good thing that lots of people are going to die.
Democratic Underground have turned their bullshit detectors on.
And no doubt the blogosphere is ablaze with commentary just like this.
Years ago a song asked “War, what is it good for?” the response in the song was “absolutely nothing”. In fact it appears that it’s very good for the stock market. At about 3pm the US, UK and Spain announced that they weren’t going to bother with the UN and Dubya was going to address the US tonight. The FSTE and Dow have been surging upwards ever since. I knew this was going to happen but size and the speed of the response was a surprise. Once again the world has lived down to my expectations.