PUUUUUUUUURPLE!
I just found this picture. It looks like it’s been photoshopped but it’s genuine AFAIK. The story below sort of explains.
Also from the mildly amusing folder, the Dolphin Stress Test.
Monthly archives: July 2003
Electric Scotland
Loads and loads of stuff about our kinsmen north of the border.
via linkfilter
Tiny Lego Men
Make your own Mini-Me with the Mini-Mizer.
The Meggan Scale
Being the standard against which the insanity of ex-partners is measured. These ladies and gents would all rate quite highly, I think.
Reading whilst in possession of a suspicious beard
You’d expect someone who worked in a bookshop to read more than most, wouldn’t you? What you wouldn’t expect is that they’d get reported to the FBI because they did it in public.
Wet
Bleurgh, rain.
And I wasn’t even thinking of cycling in, either.
Work to blog
I could do a bit of workblogging, I guess, but I’m not doing anything sufficiently interesting to make it worthwhile.
When idiots leak
There’s much more detail here and here, but the gist of it is-
Joseph Wilson was a former US ambassador to Gabon who was asked by the CIA to go to Niger and investigate claims that Saddam was trying to source Yellowcake Uranium ore from the country. He concluded that the evil moustache wasn’t shopping there, filed his report and thought no more of it. Until Wubble U claimed the exact opposite in the State of the Union speech that was part of the pitch for invading Iraq. Wilson trashed the claims, starting a well deserved political outcry.
Someone in the White House decided that revenge, and possibly a warning to future critics, was needed. So they leaked to a right wing columnist that Wilson’s wife was an undercover CIA operative who had suggested the former ambassador be sent on the Niger mission. The columnist duly used this information in a piece trying to write off Wilson’s claims. This may not seem like much at first look, but think about it. His wife’s role had nothing to do with the validity of Wilson’s argument, and naming her has merely damaged her career and put her contacts at risk. And if anything, the revelation hasn’t had the desired effect. Rather, it has made plain (again) just how malicious and stupid the Bush administration is. Sooner or later something is going to sink the idiot government, preferably sooner.
Union Meeting
Can anyone recommend a time and place? Apparently management has found good cause to protest against pay hikes – too much union leisurely activity!!!!
Pick time and place. Let’s go. This weekend sounds like a good excuse for debuachary and laughs.
Kylie Minogue not kidnapped
The short bottom flaunter wasn’t bundled into the back of a car outside her home, as neighbours thought. The action was provided by a film crew faking a kidnap of the sex dwarf. The Police, who didn’t get Ms Minogue’s autograph, are understandably miffed.
Get off your bike!
Having gone to all that trouble to get Iraq’s oil, American politicians now want to see that it gets used. To that end, they plan to slash the federal funding for projects that encourage cycling, pedestrianisation and public transport. The $600million couldn’t be afforded because, as the press secretary for an Oklahoma representative claimed, “It’s more important to provide the basic funding for roads, before you provide money for enhancements whenever you’re facing a shortfall,”. Basic funding, in this case is $4.8billion more than was in Bush’s budget and a $518million boon for Oklahoma.
I know this doesn’t affect me directly, but it’s a stupid decision that’s so short sighted I want to slap a few senators.
Salon article, use the day pass option.
Happy Birthday Brian
nuff’ said. The Spinneyhead Union Management are lobbying for you.
Splittah!
Johnny’s site is up, far ahead of the three year schedule the rest of us had set for it. But there is something wrong. Take a look in the right hand column of links. What’s at the top, where Spinneyhead should be? Why, it’s Fark.
Really, the ungrateful wretch! He should acknowledge his heritage, putting Spinneyhead where it rightfully belongs- at the top of the pile. This slight will not be forgotten, the next time he comes to the table with ‘union demands’ he’s not getting a chair. He’ll have to stand there, on one leg if I say, wearing a dunce’s cap.
Spinneyhead doesn’t take this sort of insult lightly, and it has a long memory.
Clef
The Roman a Clef is a grand old tradition of putting real people, dressed up and renamed, in fictional works. It’s usually done for revenge, to lampoon someone who wronged the author, but can verge toward satire. I’ve already declared that friends have nothing to fear from the characterisation in Post & Publish, but public figures are another matter.
via Places For Writers
French Joystick
The French government is to fund video game companies with a grant of 4 million Euros.
Now, if only the British government would fund aspiring homegrown comics writers……
Boldly Gone
Matt Jefferies, the man who designed the original TV Enterprise, has died.
Hear the fanboys scream
Jess Lemon reviews issue 1 of Trouble, the Marvel attempt to snare the teen girl market, and trashes it. As this was the first comic from the Epic imprint- the one I’m doing a proposal for- I don’t know whether to be afraid or jubilant.
The ‘Intern Reviews’ are the only comic reviews I read at the moment. If Jess is still doing them when (if) Union Jack gets published I want her to have first dibs on trashing it. And I still choose to belive that she’s real, though I think her brother Andy’s an invention to cover for the crib sheets the editors give her on character history. He also provides a useful’ aren’t boys silly’ story to top and tail the reviews. There are a few fanboys, however, who can’t stand the idea that girls read comics, let alone comment on them. Mostly they aren’t as funny as this, where ‘Jess’ interviews ‘Felicia’- another woman in comics they hope isn’t real.
Woody
Woodpeckers in Scotland have been attacking wooden telephone poles, so effectively that wastage is ten times higher than expected.
Johnnytheo is finally up and running, BUT
sheer madness. I despise blogger and still have no clue how to design the site. So in the meantime, the site will act as a testing bed for my asp .net adventures. The demo pages for the new site will be linked from the main www.johnnytheo.com, allowing everyone to see how it all works.