Fallujah, NJ
American pilots train for service in Iraq by shooting at a school.
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Monthly archives: November 2004
Four More Years
Another pointed front page from last week that passed me by, until I found it at Can Koklu.
Not a matter of life and death
The mother of Brazilian football star Robinho has been kidnapped, possibly- the story implies- because he’s thinking of moving to Real Madrid. Perhaps someone can kidnap Victoria next time Beckham threatens to appear in another money grabbing advert.
via FootballWatch
Box 221b
Tonight I will be mostly filling in forms. Not my favourite pastime, but they’re both about getting me some money. Small claims forms have been collected (they’ve got metal detectors and stuff before you can get into the County courts, I spent more time getting through them than it took to collect the paperwork once I got in). It’s a shame it got to this stage, but now it has there’s no point in holding back.
The other form is for student funding. It comes with about six booklets of information and instructions. I’m not looking forward to tackling it.
Traction
Fred Dignah is dead. Fred was cool, he was a steamgeek.
via Ickle
Cyburbia
The Urban Planning Portal. Based at the University of Buffalo, and very US biased, but some issues are universal.
Map
The Internet Mapping Project Old news, I know, but I just rediscovered it whilst researching course work.
Ivan the Terrible
| Your Penis Name is: Fat Albert |
(Ivan The Terrible is the penis name of Owen Spinneyhead)
via killthesmiley
�tes-vous vraiment fran�ais?
When is a French film not a French film? Personally I don’t care so long as it’s got Audrey Tautou in it.
Green card
MarryAnAmerican, a resource for Canadians to save their (hot) liberal southern neighbours from Jesusistan. They did try, so they deserve a second chance. Any cute liberals wanting to move to Manchester can skip the process and contact casa Spinneyhead directly.
Meanwhile, the Mirror’s Thursday front page-
has got loads of responses. You can download it as a pdf.
Update Exit polls showed Kerry winning. Oddly enough, they were accurate at predicting paper ballots but way out on electronic ones. Can anyone say election theft?
Another Update Ben Hammersley on Savonarola.
IMDbDate
Hollywood starlets and starlings are using the Internet Movie Database as a career specific version of Googling potential dates.
Obviously, I’m not in IMDb yet, but it’s been a while since I Googled myself.
Cool. I made it to the top of the list.
Interface
Blogger doesn’t want me to use the Create Post window today and keeps timing
out trying to open it. So I’m going to see if the mail-to-post works.
I’ve found a few interesting things so far. Go sign the petition against ID
cards- http://www.no2id-petition.net/. I’ll put a proper link inthere when
I’m allowed to.
No Photo Friday or Deputised Experts until Blogger stops being pissy.
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Bleurgh
Crappy day. Blogger has only just let me in, so no Photo Friday or DEx yet. I can’t seem to concentrate on anything. It’s not as if nothing’s got done today, I did make some tomato chutney, but no coursework or anything else constructive.
Avoidance
You should be able to guess from the density of posts that I’ve got coursework and half a dozen other things I should be doing.
Miss World Wide Web
Wired on a virtual woman beauty contest.
Monkey see…..
A Canadian man has been sentenced to four months in jail because his next door neighbour could see him masturbating in his living room. I think the British law is very similar, it’s indecency if anyone can see you.
Must…. pull…. down…. blinds.
Burn things!
Internet bumper stickers
via Spankalishous
The wrong kind of rain
Internet connection by satellite can be weather affected, though warnings not to use the service in the rain could just be silliness.
Lust Bug
There are no new ideas left in Hollywood. They’re remaking Herbie movies. Herbie: Fully Loaded, stars Lindsay Lohan. No, I wouldn’t know who she was either if it weren’t for Fleshbot posting about her breasts (NSFW), but apparently she’s a big star in the States (there’s no accounting for their tastes over there- see previous posts.)
Give 'em enough rope
Xeni at BoingBoing has a round up of US election opinions and there’s also What Would A Dumbass Republican Do?. I, for one, am going to keep mocking the monkey boy and do what I can to get the poodle voted out when the General Election rolls around next year.
Edit Green Fairy’s summing up is shorter, but quite eloquent.