Another fine message to those dangerous whackos at the Cult of Scientology.
Archive for the ‘Life and Death’ Category
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009Mastering the Internet
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
The British government has instigated a program of monitoring of its peoples internet traffic that will give them unprecidented access to everyones private communications and internet habits.
Whilst the government takes money from its citizens in tax to pay for the project they desperately try to gloss over the real powers they are granting their “officials”.
The “Mastering the Internet” plan allows all IP communications data to be freely gathered and processed without any kind of consent. It also allows interception of communication content as and when they see fit.
So successful are the British government at lying to their citizens that most people arn’t even aware this is happening.
Read GCHQs non-denial denial about their activities here.
Gurkha Justice
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
It is terrible how the Gurkhas are being treated by the British government. These people fight for our country and then are treated like scrounging criminals when they retire.
It makes me embarrassed to be British, it really does.
From the website
“Britain has had no greater friends than the Gurkhas. They have served all across the world in the defence of our Country for nearly 200 years. Over 45,000 died in the two World Wars as part of the British Army. They are still fighting in the British Army today.”
I very rarely sign petitions. Very rarely indeed. But I signed this one.
UPDATE: 29th April. It seems some politicians in Britain have a sense of decency after all. Story here
One Image of the American Dream
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
I came across this striking photograph the other day. It’s one of a set of similar images taken of the abandoned schools in and around Detroit.
The caption reads…
“Living the Dream”. Several boxes of books commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. found in the Detroit Public Schools’ Roosevelt Warehouse, where tens of thousands of other textbooks and countless other supplies have sat rotting for more than two decades.
See the rest of the images, and many other mind grabbing images at Viceland
Elixir of life, heavy man
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Looks like heavy water might help reduce the effects of aging. It seems that CH bonds with Deuterium and stronger than those with normal hydrogen. That makes them less likely to be damaged by free radicals - one of the biggest agents of aging.
Read more here .
Now, where do I find litre bottles of heavy water…
Googled gunman
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
WTF, I know gun laws in the USA are lax but seriously, this is still a suprise to see.
Click here to see it for yourself, unless google have removed it.
Not that I think the guy was doing anything wrong. And the whole privacy thing around the street view project is something I’m concerned about.
The more accessible guns are the more people get shot. It’s not rocket science.
Jam Hamsters
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009404 Jam hamsters went missing today from our servers. Response times are correspondly slow.
If you should spot any of these recalcitrant rodents please contact the administrator.
Anonymous
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Wonderful to see that Anonymous has resisted the hostilities of that wacko Scientology cult for a whole year.
Enjoy the Anonymous celebration and watch this…
Anonymous: Still Alive from blue on Vimeo.
Buy yourself a V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask here and participate even.
Siphonophore: Lovecraftian sea monster
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
What an abomonation. I’ve never seen, or imagined, anything like this outside of an H P Lovecraft novel. It’s got more tentacles than it can possibly know what to do with, strings of nasty stinging threads, vile looking bladders and a main mass that looks like pickled whale intestines. It even glows in the dark. And when they can be over 100feet long one can’t help but feel that the cartogaphers of old rather underplayed the horror of the seamonsters they depicted swimming the duller portions of the worlds oceans.
The thing is actually a Siphonophore, a colony of genetically identical organisms that live as a connected whole; each individual, or zooid, performing different tasks to benefit the whole.
Enjoy this video of it.
Who does the government borrow from?
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
As we learn that the UK government is preparing to increase it’s borrowing to £100 billion an oft asked question is “Who does the the govenment borrow from?”
Well, the answer is that it prints and sells “gilt edged securities”. These are just pieces of paper which promise an additional return to the buyer at some point in the future. These securities are auctioned several times a year to meet the shortage of government revenue as it arises. They are bought by individuals, insurance companies, pension funds, trust funds, and banks.
When these securities mature the government has to pay them off. And if it doesn’t have the money to do so it has to raise taxes, cut spending or create yet more securities.
Eventually the tax payer has to cover the cost of the securities.
Wonderful.