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June 29, 2006
The article that may get you arrested...
"In the guise of fighting terrorism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair's Government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and the British people. The author charts a nine-year assault on civil liberties that reveals the danger of trading freedom for security - and must have Churchill spinning in his grave."
Read the article in today's Independent
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June 23, 2006
See the monkey dance
Strangely poignant.
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June 17, 2006
Cna yuo raed tihs?
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Olny 55 plepoe tuo fo 100 anc. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
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June 15, 2006
Those Krazy Khristians....
The joys of free speech.
And religious nutters.
I can tell you one thing - Julie Banderas (the Fox News anchor) is a new hero of mine! Interesting to note that Fox News is not always regarded highly for it's news coverage or stance on issues. However ... here's a little quite from Julie in this newsbite..
"Ok, lets talk about "your God", because I dont know what planet you're from, but you say you "thank god" for IED's [improvised explosive devices], you "thank God" for 9/11, you "thank God" for dead soldiers, you "thank God" for aids. I thank God that you are not a leader of a real church. What you preach is hate, miss."
Go Julie! Go Julie!
On the subject of thanking God for IED's, Fred Phelps actually ran a TV commercial, saying it was God's way of teaching Americans that gays were evil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xVBbCgzYtw
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June 14, 2006
Going mad nowhere.
I think I must be going mad.
Firstly, I have not one, not two, but three camping trips planned over the next couple of months.
I do not, as a rule of thumb, do camping.
(Reading this now, I realise that was a rather camp statement, so please excuse the irony)
Secondly, on the first of these trips, I've resorting to flying with Ryanair to get there.
I vowed I would never ever do this. Ever. And yet here I am, having forked out £150 'cos all their cheap seats were gone, and they charge you extra for things like having a 'plane to fly on.
So where am I going on this first trip?
Really.
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June 13, 2006
World cup in Lo-definition
Remember in the 1970's when they took photos of scantily clad girls and converted them into computer printouts, recreating the tones and shadows using various alpha-numerical characters?The next phase of this trend came along when someone animated these images. For example, you can watch The Matrix in this format.
Well someone's taken it a stage further.
You can now watch World Cup football events live, online, in glorious animated ascii-art format, courtesy of http://www.ascii-wm.net/
Open a Telnet session to port 2006 on ascii-wm.net about 10 minutes before a game, and in your console window you'll see the match live. No soundtrack or commentary. No real... er ... anything. But we like the technological implication!
(And if anyone's gone and bought a high-definition telly that they no longer need, thanks to this handy link... let me know!)
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June 09, 2006
Sprite monster has a baby...
Vile - yet funny...
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