Ok so I’m a resident alien, but you have to take your hats off to the BBC for being on the leading edge of global news reporting. With stories like these, why wouldn’t you wan the BBC Global news as you homepage?
Lesbos islanders battle for Lesbian name
Some keyboards ‘dirtier than a toilet’
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you how many times my kids watched this over the weekend. Apologies if you’ve seen it before, it’s spawning a few re-makes and some of them are almost as funny as the original. It has to be a you tube classic.
Here he is in all his splendour…….
As you can see it’s far from the glamorous suit Night Owl is wearing in Rich’s post. Nice Utility belt though.
How about this guy? Now that’s more like it! Nice bag.
The latest offering of The Battlestar Galactica Cast re-creating the Last Supper brings my collection to two.
The First one, which I have had for a while, is posed by the characters in Star-Wars:
Right click to see ‘em BIG. Let me know if you see any more out there!
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Ooooh and a Lego version too.
And of course the well known one:
Some interesting figures trying to asses the true cost of the war in the middle east are starting to surface and make for interesting and disturbing reading:
$16bn
The amount the US spends on the monthly running costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – on top of regular defence spending
$138
The amount paid by every US household every month towards the current operating costs of the war
$19.3bn
The amount Halliburton has received in single-source contracts for work in Iraq
$25bn
The annual cost to the US of the rising price of oil, itself a consequence of the war
$3 trillion
A conservative estimate of the true cost – to America alone – of Bush’s Iraq adventure. The rest of the world, including Britain, will shoulder about the same amount again
$5bn
Cost of 10 days’ fighting in Iraq
$1 trillion
The interest America will have paid by 2017 on the money borrowed to finance the war
3%
The average drop in income of 13 African countries – a direct result of the rise in oil prices. This drop has more than offset the recent increase in foreign aid to Africa
Actually It was my wifes’ father and his shotgun. But seriously, I have ‘borrowed’ my Brother-in-laws truck a few times and whilst fun to drive and great for picking up paving or taking dismantled concrete steps to the dump, I couldn’t see myself driving around in one. I put it in the same class as the chainsaw and jackhammer, two other things I thoroughly enjoy using but will probably never own.
Anyway, in Britain we have these:
Why would we want your trucks? Yes, that’s 3 wheels, great in the snow.
I would like to follow that up with Ask a Ninja’s review of Pirates Of The Caribbean 3
Now sponsored by errrrr Verizon (WTF did that happen?), by two degrees of separation that links back to Star Wars via James Eal Jones. I think I’m getting the idea for a new thread here…….
Ok so you may have heard that the economic stimulus package is about to be signed by El Presidente. Concern is that people won’t spend the money and actually buy something(s) and the whole thing will be a waste of time. So why gosh darn it doesn’t the President just buy us all a new iPod? Everyone’s a winner! Especially Steve Jobs.
What would you like the president to buy you? Limit $600.00 each. I’d like an Ipod touch and a new fridge.
Okay I ‘m writing this only because I had the great idea of watching Silent Running with the kids at the weekend. Talk about a bad move. I had totally forgotten how disturbing it might be for a nine year old. Yes there were tears and we had to stop after one of the little robots didn’t get back into the ship during a cosmic storm and was ripped from its legs whilst roaming the outside of the ship….. as of course you do when you are a little simian robot thing in space. I hadn’t actually watched it for about 15 years and thought it would be tame compared to Star Wars……. Now my child is scarred for life.
But I digress, the real reason is to share this Blog and Post that I happened upon recently. The 10 Worst Spaceships of All Time.
Just so happens that the Valley Forge from Silent Running is in there at #3. The rest of the blog has some gems too like: The 24 Biggest Assholes of Lost and Sawyer’s a Huge, Huge Dickweed Parental advisory on some of the language in this one .
Anyway I want to nominate ‘The Liberator‘ [frameset warning] from BBC TV series Blake’s Seven probably the cheesiest SciFi series ever although as a 12 year old I loved it.
Most of you know that a family member, was diagnosed with Lyme disease last Fall. I expect that with the exception of my office partner, most of you and I include myself until recently, are only vaguely aware of this disease. I’ve recently started poking about following the trail of rumors that the origins of Lyme is linked to some very rather dubious research by the Government in the 1950′s. The history of the emergence of the disease reads like an X-Files case. Some of the doctors we have worked with recently are also very cagey about the subject, one refusing to admit that they are treating the disease in any other way than that suggested under official guidelines.
This story has it all, Secret Government Labs, Ex-Nazi Germ warfare Scientists, Project ‘Paperclip’, and deliberate leakages of modified micro-organisms into the environment. The circumstantial evidence for some of the theories is pretty compelling, not to mention the fact that the disease gets it’s name from an area close to Plum Island in Mass. where the earliest cases were reported. The island is the home of a Government facility listed as a ‘USDA Animal Disease Research Center’ that has a very interesting past.
So, whip out the DEET spray this summer and stay out of the long grass. The incidence of Lyme infections is growing rapidly right across the US.
If you fancy a good conspiracy theory that’s close to home start here:
Plum Island, Lyme Disease And Operation Paperclip – A Deadly Triangle
Lab257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory
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