An amazing photograph of the rocket motors igniting on the Delta IV Heavy which launched from Vandenberg Airforce Base on Friday.
Medicating the children – no wonder the NHS is so expensive.
An amazing article over at The Telegraph (emphasis mine) : Children given 'chemical cosh' drugs for shyness Children are being prescribed mind-altering “chemical cosh” drugs for conditions such as shyness and mild social anxiety, behaviour experts have warned. Young...
Labour loses it’s chancellor and chooses Balls(up).
Something of a surprise and possibly explaining why Alan Johnson got in a pickle with NI rates a few days ago : Alan Johnson stands down over claims of a love affair Alan Johnson resigned as shadow chancellor after fewer than four months in the job amid claims that...
Websites that you would never have dreamed existed.
One thing I always find intiguing about the internet is how clicking on link at random can take you to some obscure website where you then spend half an hour rooting around instead of doing what you were supposed to be doing (and I am not talking bums 'n' tits here...
Record breaking silver sales in the US
Via ZeroHedge, it would seem that people in the USA are getting a little fed up with the continued rape and pillage of their currency : When we had last checked on the total silver sales by the US Mint earlier today, the amount given was 3,407,000 ounces, a number...
Sheeple, census cockups and a rigid court system.
For a short article, the following from The Telegraph certainly covers all definitions of bizarre for me : Cat ordered to do jury service A cat has been summoned to do jury service, even after his owners told the court he was "unable to speak and understand English"....
The Waspsnest’s first birthday
How time flies when you are having fun. I started scribbling on here one year ago and, at the time, had no real idea what I was going to write about. Today, I am still none the wiser but it has certainly been fun finding weird and wonderful things to stick on the blog...
Taxes up, debt up and this government still pisses money up the wall.
Austerity and tax rises are needed to clear the crippling debt - or so we are told. What I would like to know is how much this bollocks is costing us : Low-cost computers are to be offered as part of a government scheme to encourage millions of people in the UK to get...
Nothing concentrates a politicians mind than the threat of losing power.
Straight to the point on this one as I have more work to do than a one armed gynaecologist with a waiting room full of D&C patients. A Telegraph article on food prices around the world opens as follows : Worries over food prices are gathering pace and triggering...
Explosive demolition of a house Norwegian style.
Spotted in a link over at small dead animals, the video below demonstrates nicely what happens when a wooden building is accosted with 50kg of dynamite : _ I think they will be gathering the firewood from that blast for quite a few years and, from a scientific point...