An article at the BBC today has the following interesting turn of events in the long running Catholic Priests being kiddy fiddlers story : Pope 'available to meet child sex abuse victims' Pope Benedict XVI is willing to hold new meetings with victims of child sex...
When the word Vagina just wont do.
Bella Gerens has a nice piece about US TV stations refusing to air a TV ad for tampons which contains the word vagina : Many men, however, may naturally be ignorant in this regard, having become accustomed to referring to the birth canal and its associated organs as...
Indoctrinating the children.
Spotted over at Samizdata.net is this little website created by npower as part of the Climate Change Schools Project aimed at brainwashing teaching 4-7 year olds how to report their parents if they are wasting energy and drowning polar bears (or cool ice cream eating...
More sloppy BBC headlines.
Whilst there are usually several dubious headlines seen every day on the BBC news site, the following is one of their better ones : River Ouse searches in missing York woman inquiry Clever river! The usual crop of "Man held over dead body" doesn't come anywhere near...
Worldwide Gold ponzi scheme?
An interesting post over at Zero Hedge today on the increasing evidence of a shortfall in the amount of physical precious metals compared to the outstanding traded precious metal paper obligations. Starting with some local trouble for Morgan Stanley : This is a...
Linux installation on a dead badger?
News in from Waspsnests Dutch correspondent that it is apparently quite a straightforward procedure as long as you follow the instructions over at Strange Horizons. A very thorough tutorial to install the VüDü linux distro on a dead badger including tips on getting...
Ooooooh its a snake!
Shamelessly nicked from underdogs bite upwards : And any post entitled Ooooooh its a snake! would not be complete without the badger video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
How tough is an iPad?
Ever wondered what would happen if you got a brand new iPad, broke it in half and put it in a blender? Well wonder no more - the result is a quite impressive video and a small pile of grey mush : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko Have a look at some of their...
Wikileaks US Army video
Seen over at Zero Hedge, rather disturbing video footage taken from a US Army Apache helicopter in Baghdad during which two Reuters employees were shot and killed : After much speculation that it was nothing but a red herring, Wikileaks, which has recently gotten some...
Joke du jour.
Following on rapidly from the iPad launch we have the following doing the rounds : Apple have pulled their proposed phone for kids while they have a rethink on the name. Apparently, the consumer focus group were none too keen on the name iTouchKids. and one to get the...