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Daily archives: December 18, 2003
Union (Jack) City Blues
I never actually announced it on this site, but Marvel’s Epic imprint, for which I did a Union Jack proposal, collapsed. I got a standard issue rejection letter back. As this is a Marvel owned character, there’s little chance of sprucing up the script and selling it on to another company, so here’s the script and rough series plan for your delectation.
Exchange
I’ll say this for Wubble U, the plummeting dollar (�1=$1.77 when I last checked) means it’s a great time for Brits to buy from the States. At that rate the Must Not Mention Sheep T Shirt is only �8.48. Buy it now folks, you know it makes sense. I’ll transfer the money to Britain when Bush gets kicked out and the dollar rebounds.
Scream if you want to go faster
Yesterday Scaled Composites became the first civilian organisation without government funding to break the sound barrier. It’s looking like they may be able to take a shot at the $10m prize next year. Also they did it on the 100th anniversary of the first powered flight. The official press release is here.
Bloggity Blog Blog Blog
Well, we didn’t win anything in the Grauniad’s weblog awards. I blame NatWest.
But at least team Spinneyhead is participating in an entirely new form of publishing. You don’t get to say that every day.
(Spinneyhead definitely falls into categories a, c, b (by proxy) and, sadly, d.)
Fakey
Even after the invasion of Iraq, it seems we’re relying on forged documents to justify it.
Technorati tag: Iraq
Protection racket
A whole unit of soldiers due to deploy to Iraq have had armour made for their soft skin vehicles at their own expense because the US military is taking so long to produce anything officially acceptable.
Technorati tag: Military
The road to Hell is paved with old paperbacks
The M6 Toll motorway has a secret ingredient- old Mills & Boon novels.
“We use copies of Mills and Boon books, not as a statement about what we think of the writing, but because it is so absorbent.
“They may be slushy to many people, but it’s their ‘no-slushiness’ that is their attraction as far as we are concerned.”
Thanks to Penny for the link
April Fool!
Well, there’s a surprise. The Telegraph had a story earlier this week where they claimed to have documents conclusively linking Al-Quaeda to Saddam. What they actually prove is that the Telegraph are ridiculously gullible, as the claims made in this article just scream ‘fake!’. The document turned up at too convenient a time, the claims they make are far too explicit and the ten year old who drew them up tries too hard to please by also ‘proving’ the Niger yellowcake claims from Dubya’s State of the Union speech.
There’s a booming trade in these wacky documents in Iraq at the moment, with forgers making hundreds of dollars at a time selling them to Western papers and intelligence agencies. In this case, the FBI has convincingly refuted any claims that Mohammed Atta could have been in Baghdad to meet Abu Nidal.