The dustbin of history is waiting. Don’t keep it waiting too long, eh?
Sheesh.
Category Archives: further signs of the apocalypse
Paging all baby boomers!
April 2, 2008 – 5:06 pm
Dog bites man
March 3, 2008 – 10:02 am
Really hot, talented actress opens her mouth and ruins everything.
Ok, Ok…. there were warning signs:
She’s French
She’s a spokeswomen for Greenpeace
Keep your spandex fetish away from my Hergé, please
February 1, 2008 – 3:13 pm
WTF is THIS? He-Man, Master of the Belgianverse?
MEMO: ultra-violent overthrow of government scheduled for Saturday (raindate Sunday)
January 8, 2008 – 8:04 pm
Daring SWAT team saves child from headache:
NEW CASTLE, Colo. — A tactical law enforcement team broke into Tom Shiflett’s home and took his 11-year-old son to hospital for court-ordered medical treatment for a minor head injury.
Garfield County’s All Hazards Response Team raided the home Friday night, a day after Jon Shiflett fell after grabbing the [...]
GB’s war on cutlery
December 12, 2007 – 6:25 pm
Samurai swords to be banned:
The sale of imitation samurai swords could be banned by the end of the year, the Home Office announced today.
Importing or hiring the weapons could also be made illegal following a string of samurai sword attacks in recent years.
Breaching the ban, which is targeted at cheap imitation samurai swords rather than [...]
Your honor, that amphibian was for personal use
December 6, 2007 – 1:31 am
More on the proverbial street and its uses for things:
Law enforcement authorities have discovered that people are willing to go to great lengths to get high
And they discovered this when? Recently, or decades ago, a few minutes after deciding to police what people put in their bodies?
including a troubling new method that features a frightened [...]
Morrrr braaaainzzzzz….
September 19, 2007 – 11:16 am
Yeah, it’s not 2008 yet, but given that you can’t underestimate the irrationality of the American voter, it’s probably not too early to start buying razor wire and MREs.
Dar al-Harb
September 8, 2007 – 3:22 pm
Additionally:
Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.
I predict lots of ugly violence.
The street (dirt road) finds its own uses for things (sewage)
August 28, 2007 – 10:03 am
Does man’s creativity know no bounds?
At the Lusaka sewage ponds, two teenage boys plunge their hands into the dark brown sludge, gathering up fistfuls and stuffing it into small plastic bottles. They tap the bottles on the ground, taking care to leave enough room for methane to form at the top. A sour smell rises [...]
How can they champion victim’s-rights without first making sure there are victims?
July 19, 2007 – 3:38 pm
Via Instapundit, a fashionable TASER, delivered right to your door! Better-looking than the iPhone, and probably more fun to use… But alas, the fact that
In field uses by law enforcement against dangerous suspects, TASER technology has among the lowest injury rates of any force option.
makes no difference to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which cares more [...]
Tintin in England
July 12, 2007 – 8:03 pm
Racist imagery “found” in 1931 comic book!
The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled a Tintin book racist and criticised a high street book chain for stocking the title.
The CRE says Tintin in the Congo makes black people “look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles”.
It has called on Borders to remove it from sale due to [...]
History repeats
July 12, 2007 – 4:31 pm
1881:
Dear W. Gladstone,
We both your servants have met this afternoon to write you these few lines of writing trusting it may find you in a good state of life as it leaves us at present. As we heard here that you are the chief man in the House of Commons, so we write to tell [...]
Is it just me?
July 1, 2007 – 4:00 pm
Or is there a real drop in quality towards the very end?
You could, in fact, pick a better century out of a hat.
The email I didn’t get
June 7, 2007 – 1:31 am
Interesting times for Dreamhost:
From: DreamHost Security Team
Subject: URGENT: FTP Account Security Concerns…
Hello -
This email is regarding a potential security concern related to your ‘XXXX’ FTP account.
We have detected what appears to be the exploit of a number of accounts belonging to DreamHost customers, and it appears that your account was one of those affected.
We’re still [...]
More murder by gun control
April 16, 2007 – 1:36 pm
Another tragic school shooting:
BLACKSBURG, Va. — At least 32 people are confirmed dead and at least another 21 are wounded after a shooting at Virginia Tech University Monday morning, federal law enforcement officials told FOX News.
Campus police said there was only one shooter and he is now dead. They are unsure if the shooter [...]
Letdown
March 7, 2007 – 4:44 pm
I ordered a new PC from PCs For Everyone a little while ago. They used to be based in Cambridge, and I always found them to be excellent. I just picked the thing up from their production facility in Norwood, and found that they’d left a bunch of stuff out of my order. They’re overnighting [...]
We live in a Global Village
February 16, 2007 – 10:50 pm
And the Global Village Idiots apparently watch too many Japanese horror movies.