Archive for the 'News' Category

Pastafarians v Westboro Baptist Church

You might not have heard of the Westboro Baptist Church, they are a hateful bunch of people calling themselves a church who base most of their belief system around hating other people, primarily homosexual people it seems.
They picket the funerals of dead soldiers holding signs saying things like “God Hates Fags”, “Homosexuality = Death,” “Fags [...]

Back again

Saved my PC from certain death and now back with a fresh OS install so I can once again resume my meaningless rambling.
Service will resume shortly.

Justice? - Britains Youngest “Terrorist” Gets Two Year Sentence

From The Times:
Hammaad Munshi, who was taking his GCSEs when he was arrested, was part of a cell of cyber-groomers which set out to brainwash the vulnerable to kill “non-believers”. He was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court of making a record of material likely to be useful for terrorism over a guide to the manufacture [...]

Catching Crayfish

Took Sophie down to the river today for some cray fishing.
The river near us is teeming with the American “Signals” so it didn’t take to long to grab some little monsters.
Our high tech equipment inculded a plumb line I found in a draw with some bacon tied to it, plus a cheap fishing net we [...]

Back :)

Back from the wilds of Suffolk and there are still builders in my house hitting things with hammers.
Normal service will resume.

Holiday

Currently enjoying a couple of weeks away from the house whilst builders create mess.
Posting will resume next week hopefully.

Dust Everywhere!

Argggghhhh, the house is filled with builders and there is dust everywhere…
Who thought having an extension was a good idea, I’m sure it was nothing to do with me.
Sorry for the lack of updates but I’m struggling to get anything done round here as you need to remove a thick layer of dust [...]

April Fools…

…Oh how amusing they all are…
I’d almost forgotten about it but the BBC reminded me with their flying penguins.
Roll on next year’s hilarity.

RIP Arthur.C.Clarke

I’ve been away for a few days but I heard the sad news whilst I was travelling. Another great mind gone but he leaves an incredible collection of work for us to enjoy.
I do find it strange though how the people of ‘literature’ who so often try to distance themselves from and generally have little [...]

Divx Stage6 Shuts Doors

I heard about this last week and it really is a shame but Stage6 shut down on Feb 28th 2008.
This closure puts an end to a great source of high quality streaming videos and one of the best sites around for streaming videos to Xbox Media Center.
Here’s hoping an alternative turns up but considering the [...]