Archive for October, 2007
Why Children don’t need healthcare
Thanks to my mate Patchy for making me aware of this cartoon. Here’s where I posted on this topic originally which also has Patchy’s response;
Kung Fu Jesus
Apologies for the poor sound quality but this is too class a movie trailer to not post;
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Blogger censorship; The begining?
Hopefully this sort of thing will be nipped in the bud before it becomes the norm;
Schillings, a London law firm specializing in media entertainment, then fired back for Usmanov with legal warnings to Fasthosts, the blog’s Internet service provider, demanding elimination of the posting within 24 hours.
More letters followed and by the fourth complaint, Fasthosts simply deactivated the Web site - along with two other servers, shutting down more than a dozen other sites, including that of a British member of Parliament.
“It’s extremely scary that this can happen, because they can take down something without anything being tested in court, without any legal sanction at all except a letter from a high-priced lawyer,” Murray said in an interview. “I’m very happy to have this tested in court. Why don’t they do that? Because that will bring together people who know the truth of the matter.”
Dim Saves the World
Is yet another UCC student blog. Detailing the travels of the former Auditor of the UCC Philosoph (my main source of free travel and beer)(*) as he goes from one place to another but mostly across large areas of China, Russia and Turkey. Good stuff.
update: upon re-reading that last part(marked *) I feel I should clarify that the philosoph, and not Dim are my source of free travel and beer.
Just some random photos I took the last few weeks
Does this wallet not look like it belongs as ‘Venture Brothers’ merchandise or is it just me?
Venture Brothers
And I really like this photo I took on the N25 Bridge in Waterford City
Waterford N25 Bridge
Also, can anyone tell me how I could scale down those two photos so I could put them as thumbnails on the site rather than as either massive pictures on the main page or just titles? Thanks.
George W. does not want children to have health-care
I love the line in this ‘you’ve moved from Richard Nixon to Mr. Burns’!
In all honesty, I can’t understand how the logic for vetoing that bill worked. But, I’d like to see someone try!
The Daily Show - Specularium
This is a very good clip where Stewart and the Daily Show reporters point to the ridiculous tendency of many news agencies to try and predict well into the future -