Archive for January, 2008
I shall admit that this may be a change:
Who would you think this belongs to?
Contributing greatly to _________’s perceived incompetence was his tendency to make public statements which were either self-contradictory (”We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward”), logically redundant (”The future will be better tomorrow”), obvious (”For NASA, space is still a high priority”), fallacious (”It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system”),or painfully confused and inappropriate, as when he addressed the United Negro College Fund, whose slogan is “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” ________ said “You take the United Negro College Fund model that what a waste it is to lose one’s mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
Oddly enough, it’s not George W. Bush
And while I realise that using wikipedia as a specific source of reference is never a great idea, its interesting because all of those quotes (bar the UNCF one) are attributed to George W. on the poster my brother gave to me for xmas…
This may be one of the first and few times that I ever give George W. credit for not being an idiot. It’s such an odd feeling that I felt I should share….
A nice and literal summary of Christianity:
You know I’m probably going to get in trouble for this one of these days:
The Sandman Presents: Marquee Moon
A very enjoyable unpublished werewolf tale featuring John Constantine from the ‘Hellblazer’ comics. Though Lying in the gutters has been talking about it for ages - here’s the link. Also for those of you further interested in John Constantine here’s another one of the unpublished stories, the banned ’shoot’.
In case your interested - some sample art from ‘Marquee Moon’:
Ralph Wiggum for President
You know I’d nearly vote for him… I mean he’d be better than some of the options. Sorry the video isn’t embeddable…
So which candidate do you ‘really’ support?
Handy little flash questionnaire here that uses policy stances for candidates to see which one is ‘right’ for you. Unsurprisingly enough Edwards was my ‘first’ choice, but what really surprised me was that Hillary was, according to this anyway, my second…
Anyway, its well worth a look so pop over…
Dan Le Sac Vs Scoobius Pip live
Long-term readers of the site may remember this lot:
Update: While I thought I’d get kinda tired of this the live show is really good - there’s a real poetry to the songs on display here.
Binststerhood
Well even more people I know joining the blogsphere - two of the girls from NUIG who routinely take the piss out of me for my ‘crazy’ beliefs. Take a look.
Up until the 1990’s you could set off the British nuclear arsenal with a bike lock-key:
Unbelievable:
PALs (Permissive Action Links) were introduced in the 1960s in America to prevent a mad General or pilot launching a nuclear war off their own bat - the Dr Strangelove scenario.
And this was apparently all you needed to do if you were any British soldier wanting to set off WW3:
To arm the weapons you just open a panel held by two captive screws - like a battery cover on a radio - using a thumbnail or a coin.
Inside are the arming switch and a series of dials which you can turn with an Allen key to select high yield or low yield, air burst or groundburst and other parameters.
The Bomb is actually armed by inserting a bicycle lock key into the arming switch and turning it through 90 degrees. There is no code which needs to be entered or dual key system to prevent a rogue individual from arming the Bomb.