Archives: 2007 August
Why Atheism is The Answer
August 21st, 2007, No Comments
Via Jesus’ General comes this toecurlingly awful rapping fundie granny. Forgive her, she knows not what she does. Fo’ shizzle. (Can’t say I’m surprised at the existence of GodTube, especially in light of the daft hubris that produced the laughable Conservapedia)
What Palau has to deal with every day
August 21st, 2007, No Comments
Or, what Dutch really sounds like to foreigners.
I Suspect Beer Was Involved Somewhere.
August 21st, 2007, No Comments
Makes a change from wearing a traffic cone as a hat: Ananova: Students played ‘frisbee’ with land mine Two Swiss students on holiday played frisbee with an object they found on a beach unaware it was a live land mine. Lukas Aider, 20, and Christoph Kurz, 19, took a plunge in the Danube river in [...]
Comment of The Day
August 21st, 2007, No Comments
Bruce Baugh on the psychology behind the Rove/Bush folie a deux – it’s a sublimated crush: A while back, some blogger I read – Digby, I think – speculated that Rove is gay and has a lasting crush on Bush Jr. That made sense to me, and still does. I have an elderly gay friend [...]
There’s No Bloody-Mindedness Like Dutch Bloody-Mindedness
August 21st, 2007, No Comments
From King Aardvark’s Kick in the Nuts via the ever reliable Pharyngula (did you know Karl Rove’s stepdad was a model for a genital piercings mag? No, neither did I): Breaking New: Dutch Priest is a Contemptible Jerk From CBC.ca, a catholic priest in the Netherlands by the name of Harm Schilder is being a [...]
Ploppy
August 20th, 2007, 1 Comment
Palau thinks it’s the Dutch that are obsessed by bowel movements, while I have always maintained it’s the English who are obsessed with “being regular”, and now I’ve got proof. Meet Ploppy, the WordPress plugin for “describing the state of your bowel movements using the Bristol Stool Scale”. Created by an Englishman.
Life During Wartime: The Wonder Room Years
August 20th, 2007, No Comments
Of course! A Wonder Room! Perfect! Because more shady squillionaires throwing money around and rubbing our faces in it is just what a divided country at war on two fronts needs… As reported approvingly in the Independent’s media & advertising section today: From the Wonder Bra to the Wonder Bar, Trevor Beattie has come up [...]
I’m An Endangered Species, Official
August 20th, 2007, 3 Comments
Bloody hell, I’ve been reading the Daily Mail for five minutes and already I’m in fear for my life. Redheads ‘could go extinct in 100 years’
Does Reading The Daily Mail Make You A Bigot?
August 20th, 2007, No Comments
Anecdotal evidence says yes, yes and thrice yes, but one self-confessed liberal documentary filmmaker has gone for empirical evidence (and a a cheap and derivative film topic), by confining himself entirely for 28 days to reading the Daily Mail – sample news item this morning: Why blue-eyed boys (and girls) are so brilliant The colour [...]
Still Life With Geek
August 18th, 2007, No Comments
What Martin and the cats my loyal minions’ve been doing while I was away:
