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December 22, 2005
well Hello Big Brother
This is scary. Truly insanely scary. Why not go the whole hog and have every single last person in the UK wear one of those electronic tags they make criminals under house arrest wear? After ID cards and the National database that'll be the next thing.
Sweet Zombie Jeezuz.
by groc at 10:29 AM | Comments (1)
Oh no! that's not right
Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts!
Cut to picture of Prez Bush saying that there's no such thing as global warming and the US can't do anything that might hurt the Merikan economy.
by groc at 12:14 AM | Comments (1)
December 21, 2005
another day -another competitor ruthlessly disposed of
the kids all hate Barbie.
they love to torture her though.
[from a follow on link via Bunchofpants.]
by groc at 06:02 PM | Comments (1)
One day an ipod user...
...was walking down the road when another man accidentally bumped into him knocking the earbuds out of the ipods users ears.
Suddenly the ipod wearer fell to the floor - went blue in the face - choked and quickly died. The guy couldn't understand it - there was no way he had hit the ipod chap hard enough to have killed him. Then he heard the ipod's earbuds still playing so he put one of the buds into his ear - the ipod was going "...breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out..."
by groc at 07:04 AM | Comments (2)
December 20, 2005
what i'm looking forward to
One of the few things I'm geniunely looking forward to this Xmas.
this is like the wrapping paper...
who is doctorwho.
I can't wait to open the present.
by groc at 08:17 PM | Comments (0)
so, young spongebob have you been naughty or nice this year?
Gritting my teeth - it'll soon be over - it'll soon be over, not long now before it's over...
I hate Xmas.
by groc at 07:48 PM | Comments (0)
Oh Great
I'm currently under attack from another lame comments-spammer. This one posts a random selection of mainly movie title links for some non-readily apparent reason. Unless it's done just to piss me off - in that case - mission accomplished there. Seriously, what is wrong with these people? There's got to be some sort of psychological damage going on. Can't they go and work in call centres where they belong?
Update:
I've closed the commenting facility on older entries - if anyone feels the burning desire to comment on something (pause for raucous laughter to die down) you'll have to send an email instead. You know how to email dontcha?
by groc at 03:04 PM | Comments (0)
December 14, 2005
ID fraudsters
ID fraudsters target job centre staff.
Ok. I'm wondering how long it's going to take before someone in the Government is going to put in a claim along the lines of: "if only we had ID cards then this sort of thing would never have happened". To which I will now pre-counter claim that: if this is the level of security we can expect from our own Government departments in not being able to protect even it's own worker's personal data, then God help us when all our personal details are in the hands of a centralised Government database.
Has noone ever heard the proverb about 'not putting all your eggs in one basket'?
by groc at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)
December 08, 2005
incompetent design
One of the things in life that has my jaw dropping to the floor in disbelief is 'creationism' - the utterly preposterous idea that because we don't always know how things in nature have come to be how they are (yet)-then it instantly follows an invisible sky god must have made it that way. So I loved finding this little article about so-called intelligent design. That invisible sky god would have to be pretty dumb to make those kind of mistakes in the human body (and if we're all supposed to made in 'his'(?) image - why aren't we invisible too?)
by groc at 02:57 PM | Comments (1)
December 05, 2005
PSP graf
Um. Is there anything more embarrassing than when a corporation tries to get down with the kids?
by groc at 07:45 PM | Comments (0)
Science is my religion
The Republican War on Science.
Sighs. Well, that's what you get after the neo-conservatives in the US twigged (quite cynically, and totally hypocritically) that they could get a lot of extra votes for themselves simply by pandering to the vast pool of none-too-bright 'Moral Majority' Christian Fundamentalists there.
by groc at 06:46 PM | Comments (0)
mmmmm - teeny tiny media recorder/player thingy
I want one of these.
by groc at 05:30 AM | Comments (0)
'King of the Ants'
Blimey. So I rented this film after having heard it mentioned on ‘Shock Movie Massacre” - it was only after having doing a quick google - I noticed it was directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-animater etc.) but it was written by Charles Higson. Charlies Higson?!!? Of the ‘Fast Show’? of the Reeves and Mortimer remake/remodelling of ‘Randall and Hopkirk’ ? of “Swiss Toni”?
Yup - it is that guy. Turns out he’s written some very dark books as well. (I'll be keeping an eye out for those now.)
That the lead actor Chris McKenna is very tasty and that we get to see him with his clothes off is a big bonus.
George Wendt Interview (he was 'Norm' from 'Cheers' y'know.)
by groc at 03:45 AM | Comments (2)
December 03, 2005
Christmas spending
by groc at 08:35 PM | Comments (1)
zire song selection
I know how some people love to sneer at other people's musical tastes - so here you go -sneer away. I'll just sneer right back.
The random-ish selection of songs I've just loaded onto to my Zire.
A kick in the teeth - Fischerspooner
All we are - Fischerspooner
Ritz 107 - Fischerspooner
Six feet under theme - Thomas Newman
Conquering America - Bodies Without Organs
the day before you came - Blancmange
God’s kitchen - Blancmange
the sailor in love with the sea - 6ths
Toxic - Britney Spears
Queer (Martin Gore mix)- Garage
Blue jeans - Ladytron
Cracked LCD - Ladytron
Seventeen - Ladytron
I die, you die (information society mix) - Gary Numan
Photograph - Gary Numan
Down in the Park (piano version) - Gary numan
Storm Trooper in Drag - St Etienne
Metal - NIN
In the Bath - Lemonjelly
I Am A Scientist - Dandy Warhols
Dolphin language translator - Astronaut’s wife
The 15th (Tommy Sunshine mix) - Fischerspooner
The Universal - Blur
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Boys - robots in disguise
Destroy everything you touch - Ladytron
Everybody’s changing - Keane
Homosapien - Pete Shelley
Private life - the Pretenders
I’ll stand by you - the Pretenders
Ode to boy - Yazoo
We Are All Made of Stars (Timo Maas mix)- Moby
You showed me - the Turtles
Hung up - Madonna
I am the walrus - the Beatles
Drugs - Talking Heads
Air - Talking Heads
These Boots Are Made For Walking = Nancy Sinatra
Scissor Sisters - filthy gorgeous
The chauffeur - Duran Duran
(oh dear - I'm sooooo gay, but in such a weird retro-futuro way -so that's OK.)
by groc at 08:28 AM | Comments (0)
December 01, 2005
Eeek - this is worrying
Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream.
by groc at 05:07 AM | Comments (2)