As a dictator, what exactly do you do to keep your subjects from rioting when your neighbouring dictator friends are dropping like flies? Well, if you just happen to have $300 billion or so tucked away from your oil sales to the US you can always try outright bribery...
Friday Humour
The following was over at small dead animals and (after laughing like buggery) I decided it was too good not to share : Google Commemorative Logos You'll Never See
The Global Revolution
A great post by Mike Krieger over at ZeroHedge on the growing civil unrest in the world, how food shortages will drive it further and how the fourth turning will change the whole game. As a taster : As I have said time and time again, government’s today throughout the...
UK net debt now at 154.9% of GDP but why is it missing from the news?
A curious case of ignorance (or possibly deliberate omission) by our main news outlets who, with the exception of The Spectator, seem to have completely missed the ONS announcement (pdf) yesterday that UK public sector net debt now stands at an eye watering 154.9% of...
Egyptian riots – Tiananmen Square re-enactment this time with a water cannon!
Spotted in the comments in a ZeroHedge article on the riots in Egypt, the following video (at around 1:23) has a protester standing up to a water cannon completely alone only to get blasted in the face for his temerity. Very reminiscient of Tiananmen square and the...
Pictorial Interlude – Aquarium on a motorbike.
An interesting one spotted by my brother last week whilst on his cycle ride to China. Very enterprising but I would imagine it a bugger to drive with all those fish sloshing about.
More coalition backpeddling on supposed cuts.
Following quickly on from Booktrusts reprieve from the chop (another £13 million to find to plug that little hole), we now have more backpeddling from the Quango execution list : Ministers have withdrawn 18 bodies from the bill they say will lead to a "bonfire of the...
Daily Telegraph headline puzzles.
Spotted this evening at The Telegraph, a fairly obvious one (I hope) but then again, you never know what they intended to write. The screengrab below (saved for when the sub-ed finally spots it) shows a new style of journalism whereby the reader has to fill in the...
Maths humour for a slow Sunday.
After looking around for something suitable to post about, I finally gave in and settled for a little maths humour (yes it is possible) from xkcd.com I laughed like a drain when I spotted the tagline at the bottom after reading the cartoon. This last one is actually...
Rockets, space and awesome videos – the Saturn 5
The inevitable follow on from my previous post about the Delta IV launch and Bucko's comment "There’s something about a rocket launch isn’t there…..", the video below is one of my all time favourites on the net. I think it must be the combination of the music and high...