The ever changing views of the US leadership on Iraqi WMDs. How much longer do they expect people to keep falling for this stuff?
We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
Donald Rumsfeld
ABC Interview
March 30, 2003They may have had time to destroy them, and I don’t know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks to Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003
Bar Centro was offering something they called a Mad Cow, a mix of Red Bull and Absinthe which just sounds disgusting. I’ve only had the green stuff the once, I don’t think I hallucinated, but I still consider this sacrilege. Courage brewers, meanwhile, are being a bit more traditional, offering a shot and chaser combo of Absinthe and lager at �5 a go for clubbers.
So, you think you are having a bad day? Well, at least you probably didn’t just get sacked by text message from The Accident Group. The full story from the BBC is Here
There’s a follow up to the MayDay project, to take place in July. Take photos on 26 subjects over the course of the month.
via Brainstoms and Raves, which has a large list of cool online photo things.
I’m quite impressed by my results on the inner geek test. I only expected to have Geekish Tendencies. Of course, the rest of Team Spinneyhead will probably outstrip me by massive amounts.
via The Sesquipadelian, who also links to the ever changing views of the US leadership on Iraqi WMDs.
We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
Donald Rumsfeld
ABC Interview
March 30, 2003They may have had time to destroy them, and I don’t know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks to Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003
I’m not having a good day. The illness and luminous yellow vomit are my own fault for drinking on an empty stomach last night, and I think I may have lost my camera. But most annoying is the something on my mail server that refuses to download and brings Outlook and everything else to a grinding halt in the process. I used to be able to read my mail online, but since my provider went over to a different server control panel that’s been impossible.
Angry and icky. Not good.
It seems to be a conspiracy to make you spend lots of money on PS2 stuff. Already we have heard of the new GT4 coming. Also, we are to soon to reach the third installment of SSX. For those in the know, this is a highly addictive snowboarding game, easy to play, hard to master and great to watch. Also it seems that not content to sit on their laurels that Sony are not only working towards PS3, guessed to be released in 2005, but they are aim for the combined entertainment market with their new PSX idea. PSX combines PS2 with a TV tuner, hard drive and DVD recorder and is due out early next year. Looks like my piggybank is empty.
The bbc is opening its doors to all comers. In a new interactive TV tournament are you ready to build the ultimate fighting machine. If so then you need to enter the Fightbox. FightBox is the radical entertainment experience where gaming meets TV to create a unique new sport for the 21st Century. Build a hero, make a legend. This week is Training Week, your chance to prepare for the fast approaching Official Qualification. Anyone can build a Warrior and enter Qualification. You need to be 18 or over and resident in the UK to appear on the Fightbox TV tournament. If you make it to the TV tournament, you’ll face not just other Warriors but also the mighty Sentients. The stakes are high: fail and be destroyed, succeed and become Supreme Fightbox Champion.
Something I’ve never had much time for are the so called “Ambulance Chasing Lawyers” – individuals and companies who accost you in the street or ring you up and ask “Have you had an accident in the past three years?”, with the sole purpose of trying to get you to sue whoever was responsible, so that they can take their excessive fees. I’ve always thought that this brings out the worst in people, encouraging them to sue people and organisations for the silliest of reasons, not least their own clumsiness or incompetence. Thus, in this country alone, we have people suing their local councils because they tripped over a crack in the pavement when they should have been looking where they were going and the thief who sued a shop-owner after having a cash till thrown at him.
However, as frivolous lawsuits go, these pale into insignificance when consider the owners of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, who, according to North West tonight (local BBC TV News), are contemplating suing the BBC, because the weather reports they give are too vague, and people might be put off going to Blackpool if bad weather is mentioned. They claim that every time this happens, their takings drop significantly, even if the weather in Blackpool isn’t actually as bad as the forecast claims. To be fair, a large part of their gripe is with the national forecast, where a mention of possible bad weather in the North West may not mean Blackpool specifically, but is apparently taken as such by potential visitors, however, even given this, I suspect they’re on to a lost cause.
Links not supplied as they were not found, after minimal research. If you can find any of these stories online, please let me know.
Yachts are old news. What every discerning sailor needs is his own aircraft carrier, a snip at $4.5million
via BoingBoing
Marvel comics announced the Epic line a while ago. The idea is that writers from all over can send in pitches and have them read, maybe even produced. I’ve been umming and ahhing about it and finally decided to pitch a Union Jack story to them. I’ve got a rough plan together, but I need to flesh it out and research twentieth century British history, Celtic mythology and Marvel characters and continuity. The last isn’t too hard, what with the Marvel Directory listing almost every character and The Chronology Project sorting out their appearances.
Hopefully I can layer in enough stuff to have a satisfying superhero story that has wide appeal, without sacrificing too much ‘Britishness’. It’s going to cover racial tension, parallel realities, Tir Na Nog, devolution, Empire, World War 2, Artificial Intelligence, classic cars and mountain bikes. I’m hoping to sneak lyrics in there and somehow someone has to utter the immortal “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!“
I no longer work for the NHS, but tales of their technological progress, or lack of, still interest me. Plans to replace NHSNet may stimulate broadband roll out. Or it may result in five different standards, resulting in things going all Kafka when you try to transfer your medical records from one region to another. We’ll see.
Last month, film critic and rightwing pundit Michael Medved blundered into the four colour pages and tried to lambast Captain America as anti US because current storylines were trying to be mature about terrorism. I had my say, pointing to wing head’s earlier periods of disillusionment in the 70s and 80s, but I also want to link to this point by point counter-argument by Scott Slemmons.
Griff has been working on the Oldhacks Message Board and in true Oldhacks style, has a new photo of the Evil webmaster on it…
Blog Shares are electing a committee to look in to unfair practices. Looks like Ickle will have to find a new way to ramp up his share prices.
So, there are no Nuclear, Biological or Chemical weapons in Iraq, but that’s okay, because there are a few stashes going spare in the States.
The most memorable cinema advert from my childhood and teens played in Whitehaven’s single screen complex and Bingo hall. In a sequence that could have been an out take from Lawrence of Arabia, Arab horsemen galloped towards the camera. They pulled their horses up short and, as the beasts milled around, fired muskets and ancient bolt action rifles into the sky. Then the voice over, not quite dramatic enough, intoned, “Rush on down to Rea’s the Bakers.” Cut to a years old interior shot of the Craft Bakery down the road.
I can’t really remember any of the top ten Pearl & Dean cinema advertising moments. Not even the pictures can remind me of any.
With the advent of low cost cinemas, we may be able to pay what films are really worth, though the Guardian reckons there are at least 10 films not worth an Easy cinema 20p. At this point I have to come to the defence of Phoebe Cates. Drop Dead Fred isn’t a great movie by any measure, but I’m a sucker for a brunette with big eyes and small……. erm. Just watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High and you’ll understand. Maybe one day sk8er boi, inspired by legal-but-still-too-young-for-me-to-think-those-things-about Avril Lavigne’s song, will make it onto that list.
I’ve only just got back onto the PC, having been swallowed by a book yesterday evening. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, in fact. Sam Vimes travels back in time to meet his younger self a few days into his Watch career. Not as absolutely hilarious as some of his other work, and a little cramped by the knowledge (and the Causality Monks’ assertions), that history heals itself and everything that had happened in the original past will happen in this one- only in a slightly different way. There’s some neat background on the origins of characters, but little room for some of the inspired inventiveness that you’d get from Pratchett in new territory.
And my brain refuses to imagine what the Ginger Beer torture actually involves.
SkyLinc, a small UK firm, have announced plans to supply broadband internet to much of the UK, by floating a series of radio stations about a mile up in the air, in helium balloons.
In other news, the graphics chip on a Sony PS2 could be an integral part of the next supercomputer.
Yet another ThinkGeek T-shirt I just have to have-
Tomorrow I make the Must Not Mention Sheep T.
via BoingBoing