American Idiots


Calling the poodle.

Amazing. Get up this morning read the Washington Times online and there is an commentary about Mr. Blair and his potential loss of government for sticking with Mr. Bush against his own peoples wishes and European dissent. This coming from an extreme right wing US paper makes for a very interesting read.

Now according to that high-class, intelligent read the Sun, Kylie Minogue is starting up her own lingerie company. Not a bad bet for the girl voting most beautiful backside of 2002. Seeing as the resident Webmaster has a thing for War, I found an interesting article about how one of the most famous hoaxes of WWII may have been solved.

Now I have never played videogames, but pals at seanbaby have put together a list of the top 10 naughtiest video games of all time. Funny how I never ended up with any of these titles at Christmas time.

I remember back in the early 1990s America was worried about the amount of US investment by the Japanese. People were Japanese paranoid, thinking that no american would own any of their own land if things kept going. If anyone can recall, a book in 1992 was published, “Rising Sun”, which highlighted US fears regarding Japan. Hell, it was even made into a motion picture. Well, Well, Well, my how things have changed. Forbes magazine reports the Japanese interest rate fell below 0% over the weekend! Errr, how does an interest rate go into the negative? Hahahahahahahahahaha. What losers the Japanese are.


Bear? Bull?

If I had any money to do so, it could be getting to the perfect time to invest in shares as the market sinks. In most cases the only way, once the panic is over, is up. Though I’d probably have to be unethical and invest in defence companies to get the best returns (and airlines and related stocks are going to tumble even further when the backlash to Bush War 2 hits.)


Future Combat System

The Future Combat System is the plan for a networked battlefield with robots doing the killing. You can almost imagine Dubya accidentally booting it up instead of Command & Conquer and finding he’s actually invaded Portugal.
Of course, it never works out as planned, there’s always some poor footsoldier doing the hard work and getting shot at whilst the decisions are made far behind the lines.


Worst Case Scenarios for Bush

Salon has gone over to a new method of funding, requiring you to cough up or view a Flashvertisement (for a Mercedes? At least now I know of one site that isn’t tracking my preferences) before you can continue. But the content’s still interesting. They have drafted six writers to brainstorm how things could get even worse for the US government.


Lost in a Forest

Check out this article which highlights the support (or lack of) GW BUSH has gotten for his economic stimulus package. In other world news, Henry Rollins, ex frontman for Black Flag and uppity spoken word guru, has unleashed an assault on “Mr. Save the World Get Rid of Third World Debt” Bono of U2 fame. Ok Henry, calm down.

Not that I was a perfect angel in high school, but kids these days are getting better and better all the time. It is amazing what can happen between two students with a crowd on a school bus! Better yet then forming a task force to ask all the kids where others may have been getting juggy wit’ it. Really, I am serious! Look at the last two paragraphs!



News Flash!
New disease affecting loads of people. It must be true.

Well thats enough of my idiotic links. See ya.


Ahhh 'Tis the Season

Chestnuts roasting on ann open fire, my godd*mn cold finally going away and only two more days until Christmas. Have found nothing of interest to note, except the ultimate place to get all your holiday technology goodies, The Sharper Image. I have been working from home, or rather, attempting to work from home, but my motivation sinks quickly.

But to my old pal, Trent Lott, the New York Times this morning has an article which pointedly states based on interviews with the black community that George W Bush will get more votes now because of his handling of the affair. Did I miss something here? Oh well, just when I thought I couldn’t ever be more wrong, hey ho……

Another interesting development is that the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) in the states, has managed to get the cast of Friends together for one more season. It wasn’t the cheapest coup in town, costing a mere $9 million an episode. The interesting point raised in the article is that the focus is now shifting to HBO and what their efforts will be to secure another season of the Sopranos? Also, it looks like the idea for a Sopranos movie is getting nixed as well. Oh well, long live the guidos.

In the Times (London that is) yesterday, I was pleased to learn that I can buy a diamond incrusted deluxe Monopoly board for only �300k and a Bulgari Tennis Ball Holder for only �3,500. The choices are killing me.

There are a few of you out there looking for a bit loverly interaction, and what a better way to start than with some real people? Although the first is for the ladies, the men need some some help as well. Look no further! WhereisMyGeek will help every single gent find a woman who can understand internet addiction.

Do you use Kazaa for all those freeware and shareware file purposes it serves? Well, well, the RCIA and the movie baddies don’t really think its an appropriate tool for the internet. The problem for the boyz in the recording hood is that =trying to sue Kazaa to close means interfering with 5 countries on 3 different continents. The Washington Post put together a really good article about the originators and the company structure in the Saturday Washington Post. Check it out here.

To all the Spinneyhead Team, I wish to pass on best holiday wishes. I use the word holiday as we are completely PC bunch and I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea. I believe Mr. Frost just completed Ramadan and Ian P has gone straight to the devil, so whatever the pleasure, enjoy!


Another day.

Even though we all love to mock the infamous GW Bush, the states right now is in a grip of Trent Lott fever. For those of you who don’t know the name, Trent Lott is the Senate majority leader for the Republicans and is a complete right wing fanatic who advocates the needs of the very rich over everyone else. His claim to fame recently is during leaving party for outgoing Senator Strom Thurmond, he said if Strom would have won the presidency in 1948 on a segrationist platform, the country would have been much better off.

The story has become huge at home and it looks as though my favourite man to hate is finally going to see his last day. He was even desperate enough to appear on Black Entertainment Television (BET) last night to explain how his remarks have been misinterrepted. What a relief. It might not be as good as removing GW, but it is a huge coup that will go down in history, as Trent is currently one of the most powerful men in politics.

On a side note to Ian’s post regarding Seattle hempfest, I was there in 1995! It takes place in a former gasworks converted into a public park and is a success every year although it must be noted the police don’t care for it….My favourite memory, no comments from the peanut gallery please, is having a joint rolling competition all through the night with 2 kilos of sponser ganja in a makeshift tent with 10 other peace loving hippies, err, I mean deadheads. The jays were thrown out to the crowd throughout the Sunday. I didn’t win the contest per say, but came in first at girls house with 25 spliffs and a huge buzz! The joy of youth. The next weekend was Bumbershoot festival, where I watched Courtney Love take her you-know-whats out and shout to the crowd, “This is what you really came to see”. Err, no Courtney we didn’t and it wasn’t impressive.


Kyoto who?

The Bush administration is not a puppet of the oil and logging industries, oh no, and they’re only stamping down on California’s environmental legislation for the state’s own good.

From drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to snowmobiles in Yellowstone, the Bush administration argues that they’re only supporting what locals want. But not in California. “Basically their position is, ‘we respect state authority, but only when the state agrees with the oil industry,'”


Star Trek

Yes. I am a fool. It is 7am in the morning and i am at work. Ok so at least i am barely working! Watched the season finale of Star Trek Enterprise last night, and I have to say the show did improve considerably over the first episodes. Time magazine has put together an interesting article about Star Trek – The Business, which highlights exactly how much you can make off sci-fi. We all know that you can make money off of anything these days, but what I really want for Christmas is the talking George Bush doll! Not only does he look as intelligent as the real guy, but speaks 11 phrases littered with those “maloproprisms”, which is supposed to be a sign of intelligence. I wonder.

Back to suburban white kids like myself. Although I am eminently influenced by hip hop culture, for shizzle ‘o the nizzle and be it all gravy and that, there is a web-site some fly tips for all the kids from New Jersey. Very informative and funny indeed. Now another fantastic part of being from the suburbs is that there is always something productive to do. Like steal real estate signs and place them on other people’s houses or the old mailbox baseball gag. But for us more technically inclined gents, working on a wire cube in four dimensions and then projecting it in 2D is much more fun.

Ahhh Ebay. What a fantastic site. Still has a few problems, but the story from this gentleman regarding getting ripped off is an eye opener. Very good story. Finally one of the good guys gets back at the chapeu d’aine.


The States

Funny how this is British blog, but most of the posts relate to the United States friendly, non-combative approach to revenge, err, regime change. Ok. The real post begins.

Apparently I had much to say this morning, but alas, all forgotten. First and most importantly, the 2002 Haggis Hunt is on! If you have seen this elusive beast, you could win a trip to anywhere in the world! Not bad for spotting a squinty eyed platypus looking thing on a distant moor. Not that my brain needs further right/left brain connectivity issues, but this is a good is example of how the grey matter operates.

News flash: George Bush gains further support from the far right for Operation Enduring Oil! Why does everyone loves this man so? He makes me want to move back to America and start spouting phrases such as “Yeeeehawwww” whilst wearing a cowboy hat and a pair of stetsons. I wonder if he has intern groupies yet?

That is all folks. And to the leader of this vile, immoral, right wing website – I will never spell check!


…….And I Feel Fine

The US announces its intentions to use nuclear weapons in retaliatory and pre-emptive attacks where WMDs are concerned. Scuds are on their way to Yemen. The glorious missile defence system has fluffed another test. And the piece of news that worries me the most? Tucked away in a BBC report about Total Information Awareness [thanks Mike], a comment by Frank Gaffney-

He says that it would only take one more terrorist attack and public support is assured.

“At that point there will not only be a willingness to submit to those sorts of infringement but a demand that they be infringed upon in the hope of trying to protect us.

“If there were no war on terror, this is not something that we would want to do.”

Somebody somewhere is planning that attack, and they may just be in the pay of the US government.


Conspiracy Theory Time

This pdf file is allegedly a suit filed against Dubya for harassment and pretty much every sexual misdemeanour going. And this is the subpeona for him to answer the charges in court.

I thought it might be a hoax, for once agreeing with the idiots at Free Republic, so found the Fort Bend County, Texas, County Clerk’s office and did a search for ‘Plaintiff: Schoeder/ Defendant: Bush’ and found the actual case.

The deposition is rambling and obviously the work of someone with all their screws loose, but people tried to crucify Clinton over testimony that was just as incredible.


Lunchtime Blog

(Because I only surf on my breaks. Honest)

It’s great to have a team, now I can visit my own site to find cool stuff.

Somehow, I don’t think that adding an extra lane to motorways is going to solve the country’s congestion problems, but the Government are spending �2billion on doing just that. For that sort of money you could build tram systems to take the strain from the most heavily used routes, or run light goods railways from all the major freight terminuses to industrial estates. Hell, for that kind of money you could start giving these away to commuters.

Tony, if Thatcher is praising you, then you’re probably doing something very wrong.

Not a late addition to my Christmas list, but you can now get a talking Dubya doll. How totally seasonamable.


Just finished- Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson It’s easy to see why Dubya called this book “unpatriotic and ridiculous”, with surreal stories of Gulf War Syndrome manifesting as a vestigial ear and hallucinations, military technology and doctrine taken to illogical extremes and Norman Schwarzkopf’s ‘raisin heart’. Not easy or coherent reading, more of a bunch of twisted allegories on the damage done by war.

Just started- Children of Chaos by Douglas Rushkoff. Snowboarding, video games and comics as a way to understand a fragmenting future. Hmmmm.