"It's clear now that the Labour government's approach to almost all issues has been precisely the same, whether it's benefit fraud or antisocial behaviour, terrorism or smoking in public places... Matters trifling, middling or massive, the response was identical. Just point out some bastards who everyone can agree are getting up to no good and taking the piss, frame it in the nastiest way possible to get us on board, then pass some wildly disproportionate legislation granting themselves executive power to do whatever they like."

"Hello, Is There Anybody There?" - Burma

Rangoon, Burma - Confusion reigned in Rangoon yesterday as the Burmese people began to ask where all that international attention had gone. "Uh, hello? Is anybody there?" asked the Burmese population, whose struggle for basic human rights and freedom of speech was briefly yet ecstatically popular in Britain just a few months ago. "Uh, we're still here," they said, collectively.

http://flyingrodent.blogspot.com/2008/04/olympics-protest-news-round-up.html

"After 15 years of utopian gibberish about the "internet as a platform" that (of course) "changes everything", the pigeons are finally flying home to roost. In 2008, IP networks look less like the future of media, and more like tarpits that promise to bankrupt anyone who tries to run one. Especially the middlemen - as the distributors look like going to the wall first."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/iplayer_isps_broke/

Iagree with the sentiment entirely.  There are better, cheaper alternatives out there but Apple's marketing is too strong and people are too damn stupid to actually look things up for themselves.

Anyway, Maddox says it best...

Star Trek XI is a difficult subject for me, after the horror that was "Enterprise", I kind of hoped they'd leave it alone.  That said, the films remained good up the end, and Nemesis was stonking.  There is the interesting choice of Simon Pegg as Scotty, Silar as Spock and some guy called Chris Pine as Kirk with JJ Abrams with directing duties.  On paper that could be a good combo, JJ has a knack for sci-fi with grit and his touch could be what the series needs to reinvigorate it.  That said, I'm not too keen on all this jumping forward and backwards in the timeline, the only time that's ever been done well was in DS9 where they went back to the original series' Klingons, who were in essence just dirty humans with long hair and a bad attitude.  Worf's comment of "we don't talk about it" was a brilliant way of hiding the disparity that special effect technology had caused.

Anyway, there is a trailer and it makes me very excited!

Nice tease!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/20/tob_commodore_sx_64/

I particularly like the comparison with the MacBook Air.

Try and picture the awkwardness of this situation:

Husband: "Oh my God, I can't believe you work in a brothel"
Wife: "Honey, I can explain it's not like it .... hold on.... what are you doing here?"
Husband: "Er... I thought it was a newsagents"
Other Prostitute: "Hi Ron, the usual?"

At least the divorce lawyers will do well out of it.

If only any of my "first big dance of the new term" had bands like that.  Never mind, we had B*witched.....

We always used to get bands on the way up and then they came back when they were on their way down.  Who knows, Led Zeppelin may want to play their last ever gig at the place they played their first ever gig.  That would be something pretty special.

"WHAT THEY DON'T TEACH YOU AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Fellas, have you ever tried to put your bollocks into a marmite jar? It's a simple matter to get them in, but you cannot get them out again. I don't understand the science behind it.

Try it during your tea break. It really works!

So how do you get them out? Or must they remain there until the crack of doom?

Simple. You give a hammer to a passer-by and invite him to take a swing. And -hey presto!- liberated plums.

They pay me to solve problems"

Original is all it's glory: http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-they-dont-teach-you-at-harvard.html

I suggest you all subscribe to this guy's blog, it's brilliant.