tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38549692011-04-22T04:24:56.085+10:00Hot Buttered Death"I'm tired of spending these lonely nights training myself not to care"--Interpol, <i>NYC</i>JGnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30081100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928799612003-04-19T18:10:00.000+10:002003-04-19T18:10:44.326+10:00Right, change is now officially afoot. Look here.
I'm going to experiment with layout and templates and stuff, see how much CSS I need to suddenly learn, before I do any more posting there, but in any case a new day for this blog has finally dawned. There won't be any more posting at this address, so if you've bookmarked this site, please redirect your bookmarks to:
http://JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928784762003-04-19T17:10:00.000+10:002003-04-19T17:10:54.840+10:00Dirty Northern Irish laundry about to come out in the wash.A branch of British army intelligence and some police officers in Northern Ireland actively and deliberately helped a loyalist paramilitary group to murder Catholics in the late 1980s, according to the Stevens Report.
The BBC's Northern Ireland Correspondent Denis Murray has learned the claim will be made in a report by the Metropolitan JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928784052003-04-19T17:07:00.000+10:002003-04-19T17:07:38.280+10:00Who's looking after the children?U.S. forces have refused a Save the Children plane permission to land in northern Iraq (news - web sites) to deliver aid, breaching the Geneva Convention and "costing children their lives," the British aid agency said on Thursday.
Save the Children said in a statement it had been trying for more than a week to land a plane in Arbil carrying enough medical suppliesJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928771642003-04-19T16:25:00.000+10:002003-04-19T16:25:53.466+10:00Apparently Spinoza was right after all.Lately, scientists have begun to approach consciousness in more Spinozist terms: as a complex and indivisible mind-brain-body system. And now Dr. Antonio Damasio, the head of neurology at the University of Iowa Medical Center in Iowa City and leading anti-Cartesian crusader, says that Spinoza was right in other ways as well. In particular, Dr. Damasio arguesJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928768862003-04-19T16:16:00.000+10:002003-04-19T16:16:33.263+10:00Gary S-T has an interesting story I didn't know about. I knew the government was ordered to stop indefinitely holding refugees when they couldn't return home, but this dumping people is a remarkable thing. Be interested to find out where he got the story...JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928764002003-04-19T16:00:00.000+10:002003-04-19T16:10:42.000+10:00Authenticity of the "Jesus box" apparently looking good.At least, the box itself is probably authentic first century AD stuff. Whether the Jesus, James and Joseph inscription refers to those biblical characters or not is still debatable, I think. Interesting article, in any case.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928762872003-04-19T15:57:00.000+10:002003-04-19T15:57:21.936+10:00At least some Iraqi museum pieces are going home, it seems.Prodded by Muslim clerics and guilty consciences, Baghdad residents returned 20 looted pieces from Iraq's ransacked national collection holding some of the earliest artifacts of civilisation. [...]
Baghdad's imams, encouraged by museum operators, had urged the faithful to return works, Hilil said. Friday, the first ones did.
"They come JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928760362003-04-19T15:49:00.000+10:002003-04-19T15:49:30.326+10:00Saddam does an Osama.His regime crumbling, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein called on his people to resist American invasion and insisted he remained in charge, according to audio of a speech reportedly recorded the day Baghdad fell and aired today by Abu Dhabi television. [...]
The station didn't say where it obtained the audio, or if it came from the same source as video of Saddam, aired earlier JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928757562003-04-19T15:41:00.000+10:002003-04-19T15:41:53.966+10:00An interesting-looking new book on Krakatoa.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928754012003-04-19T15:32:00.000+10:002003-04-19T15:32:14.686+10:00US gov't sides with record companies in music downloading case. Surprise, surprise.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928753112003-04-19T15:29:00.000+10:002003-04-19T15:29:57.013+10:00Frank Rich praises The Daily Show's war coverage.In the immediate aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Stewart caused a stir by shunning comedy entirely. He shut down "The Daily Show" for a week, then returned with a tearful monologue about the attack on his city. "This time," Karlin says, "we all thought at the beginning there's no way we're going to be able to do the war." The default JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928744602003-04-19T15:08:00.000+10:002003-04-19T15:08:20.076+10:00Blogcritics have redesigned, and this link is here because Eric Olsen emailed us all and asked nicely would we please link to the post announcing the new design. And who would I be to not comply with that request, even if I do have grave reservations about the new design (some of which are addressed in the post comments)? And with the various changes being made, could they not have finally JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928738102003-04-19T14:51:00.000+10:002003-04-19T14:51:51.796+10:00Changes are afoot.
More information as it comes to hand.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928364522003-04-18T23:54:00.000+10:002003-04-18T23:54:16.043+10:00Can I just take this opportunity to curse Blogrolling.com? I don't use it myself, but that's because I refuse to use it when I see how badly it slows down the sites of people who use it. Especially when it fails to actually work, it holds up the site completely while it chokes. Plus it annoys me when I check the Sitemeter stats and find someone's clicked on a Blogrolling.com link to visit my siteJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928254792003-04-18T16:56:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:56:27.013+10:00Vote this guy for next leader of Iraq.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928253832003-04-18T16:53:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:53:16.936+10:00Portugal declared laziest nation in Europe.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928253652003-04-18T16:52:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:52:53.420+10:00Earliest writing found in China?Signs carved into 8,600-year-old tortoise shells found in China may be the earliest written words, say archaeologists.
The symbols were written down in the late Stone Age, or Neolithic Age.
They predate the earliest recorded writings from Mesopotamia - in what is now Iraq - by more than 2,000 years.Next: Donald Rumsfeld says "stop bitching about that stuff getting JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928249442003-04-18T16:39:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:39:46.560+10:0042% of America not online.Now that people can log on at work, at home, in coffee shops, in airports and even in public parks, the Internet seems like a pervasive, nearly seamless entity in most American lives.
Most, but certainly not all. Forty-two percent of Americans still don't use the Internet and the majority of them do not believe they ever will, according to a study released yesterday.
JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928245652003-04-18T16:29:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:29:25.153+10:00Atheist allowed to pray at council meetings.An atheist who sought to pray in City Council meetings for deliverance "from weak and stupid politicians" got the blessing of the Utah Supreme Court on Friday. The court ruled that if officials in Murray, Utah, want to pray during government-sponsored events, the opportunity to pray must be equally accessible to all who ask.
The Supreme Court's 4-1 JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928242252003-04-18T16:20:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:20:10.233+10:00Alan Jones found guilty of defamation.Sacked NSW policewoman Lola Scott was defamed by broadcaster Alan Jones during two on-air attacks about police corruption, a jury found.
Ms Scott, who controversially lost her job last December, sued Mr Jones and radio station 2UE in the NSW Supreme Court over broadcasts made in July and August 2001.
The jury of four men took one-and-a-half hours to return JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928238552003-04-18T16:09:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:09:56.623+10:00Madonna releases tame version of "American Life" video. Must be really tame, then, cos I didn't think the original version (which got aired on Rage last week) was all that revolutionary and wild...JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928238022003-04-18T16:08:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:08:27.810+10:00Ikea embarrassed.Ikea has apologised after accidentally naming a child's bunk bed after an obscene German expression.
The Swedish firm didn't realise the problem until after the £110 bed went on sale across Europe.
The wooden bed is called the "Gutvik" which means "Good f***" in German. [...]
IKEA spokesman Sabine Nold, 40, said: "Yes, we do have a bed of this name that is on offer in our stores JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928235622003-04-18T16:02:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:02:04.466+10:00Louisiana police baffled by clean burglar. Next: Bosnian police tell Louisiana police to consider themselves lucky that they didn't have to track down some guy known as The Masturbator.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928234942003-04-18T16:00:00.000+10:002003-04-18T16:00:26.810+10:00Email. Facilitating conversation around the world, ruining lives in the process.Researchers have concluded email has become an increasing burden on computer users - with the power to ruin their personal lives.
A study of 26,000 users claims to have found the existence of Pre and Post-Mail Tension, which derives from misunderstanding emails and the fear that private messages could be circulated JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928231422003-04-18T15:51:00.000+10:002003-04-18T15:51:55.263+10:00PETA sinks to new low by co-opting Jesus.Local Jewish leaders say a billboard that promotes vegetarianism by claiming "Jesus was the prince of peas" is historically inaccurate.
The billboard depicts Jesus with an orange slice in place of a halo, and was erected by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, to coincide with Passover and Easter.
PETA's Bruce Friedrich said the campaign JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928230842003-04-18T15:50:00.000+10:002003-04-18T15:50:20.513+10:00Richard Jinman in praise of Dark Side of the Moon.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928230322003-04-18T15:48:00.000+10:002003-04-18T15:48:52.013+10:00Holy shit.When the music newspaper Revolver folded this month after six years, the seven staff went to a pub, drowned their sorrows and wondered what to do next.I say "holy shit" like that because Alison, the girl who edits (or, apparently, edited) Revolver, does that radio show I do with me. She hasn't been on air much this year because of scheduling conflicts with editing the magazine—she got JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928221032003-04-18T15:26:00.000+10:002003-04-18T15:26:45.590+10:00Oy. I just got a spam message with the subject "Wish you had lager breasts". I do not require the enlargement of my manboobs, thank you very much, and I certainly do not require them to be enhanced with beer.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928212132003-04-18T15:06:00.000+10:002003-04-18T15:06:32.420+10:00Brian Weatherson ponders those deep cultural divisions between us and the US.One of the things that takes a while getting used to in America is that the place doesn't close down for Easter. Virulent Memes says that Good Friday is the quietest day of the year, and that's a pretty good impression of just how much the country does close down back home. And today (that's still Holy Thursday here) is JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928207012003-04-18T14:54:00.000+10:002003-04-18T14:54:48.000+10:00Ugh.British police today offered a STG5,000 ($A12,940) reward after the body of a Muslim woman was found in a hospital mortuary, covered with rashers of bacon.
The desecration was discovered when the family of the 65-year-old grandmother was waiting to see her body after she lost her fight with cancer.
The Metropolitan Police's racial crime task force was called in to investigate the incident, atJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928193032003-04-18T14:23:00.000+10:002003-04-18T14:23:58.640+10:00W's culture advisors resign over Iraq museum looting.Two cultural advisers to the Bush administration have resigned in protest over the failure of U.S. forces to prevent the wholesale looting of priceless treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum. Martin Sullivan, who chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property for eight years, and panel member Gary Vikan said they resigned JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928192352003-04-18T14:22:00.000+10:002003-04-18T14:22:20.450+10:00Australia criticised for withdrawing from Iraq.The early withdrawal is believed to be in defiance of US wishes that some soldiers be kept in place to maintain order.
"It's one thing to have a short, sharp, highly professional, highly effective contribution when it's really hot," Mr Howard told a Perth radio station. "It's another thing to have a very long commitment of a large number of regularsJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928184982003-04-18T14:07:00.000+10:002003-04-18T14:07:32.466+10:00Hollywood's latest attempt to foil piracy.Cinea LLC, which created an encryption system for DVDs, and Sarnoff, a technology research firm, are developing a system to modulate the light cast on a movie screen to create a flicker or other patterns that would be picked up by recording devices, making the resulting images unwatchable. The disruptive flickers would be unseen by the human eye in the JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928180292003-04-18T13:58:00.000+10:002003-04-18T13:58:08.420+10:00Frances Katz appraises MTV's war coverage.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928172162003-04-18T13:41:00.000+10:002003-04-18T13:41:38.763+10:00US offers piss-poor sum of money for info on Saddam.The United States is offering up to 200,000 for information on the whereabouts of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
U.S. officials say they do not know whether Saddam is dead or alive following two massive U.S. airstrikes in Baghdad aimed at killing him.
Saddam tops a list of 55 Iraqis coalition forces have marked as the "most wanted." The JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928157622003-04-18T13:12:00.000+10:002003-04-18T13:12:11.530+10:00Bloggers and blog readers may be interested in this project being promoted by Tim Dunlop. I might take part in it myself.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-928157172003-04-18T13:11:00.000+10:002003-04-18T13:11:03.326+10:00Probably not that you care but I did go out last night. Decided I may as well brave the elements and potentially have a good time at the club as opposed to being miserable at home.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927723082003-04-17T21:46:00.000+10:002003-04-17T21:46:34.543+10:00I was thinking of going out to Club 77 tonight, cos they've changed hands and the last goth club to be held there is on tonight. I don't like the sound of the weather out there, though, so I'm still debating whether or not to go. I don't do the big four-hour hair and make-up jobs some goths do—basic black T-shirt, jeans, shoes and jacket is as far as I go look-wise—so I don't have to spend ages JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927718322003-04-17T21:28:00.000+10:002003-04-17T21:28:25.403+10:00Every now and then I get actual email, as opposed to the 10000 pieces of spam per hour my Yahoo account collects.
Hello to Paul Smith, who suggests the following:As to your Bush poll and the poor response, maybe you should have played to the base side of humanity instead of offering altruistic outcomes. The question I would have asked is:
Would you blow George Dubya for $1,000,000
and I think IJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927711982003-04-17T21:03:00.000+10:002003-04-17T21:03:34.966+10:00Neal Pollack is in particularly fine form today.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927710702003-04-17T20:58:00.000+10:002003-04-17T20:58:45.793+10:00The Smoking Gun has a beauty today.While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network's web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, and a few other prominent figures. Until earlier this afternoon, a CNN server housed JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927707292003-04-17T20:43:00.000+10:002003-04-17T20:43:04.233+10:00The ultimate Beatles collectible?Fans of former-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney have been invited to bid for a tiny piece of musical history -- germs from a bout of flu that caused him to cancel a recent gig.
After two days on the ebay.co.uk website, the germs have received two bids, the highest for 1.2 pounds and come from fan Ian Mears who claims he caught the bug from McCartney when he met him JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927706722003-04-17T20:41:00.000+10:002003-04-17T20:41:21.733+10:00Terror alert lowered to yellow. In other words, the threat of terror in the US is now merely elevated as opposed to high. You can all sleep soundly knowing you're marginally safer than you were yesterday.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927706042003-04-17T20:38:00.000+10:002003-04-17T20:38:49.483+10:00Tatu in naked underage schoolgirl shock. And OH what hits I'm going to get from perverts looking for naked underage schoolgirls now...JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927705622003-04-17T20:37:00.000+10:002003-04-17T20:37:13.606+10:00Chicago no longer enforces laws against swearing. In related news, it becomes legal to read Hot Buttered Death in Chicago. Fuckin' A!JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927705302003-04-17T20:36:00.000+10:002003-04-17T20:36:15.326+10:00What the fuck is wrong with the Japanese?Some may pooh-pooh the claim, but with over 2 million sold, golden turds are the latest hit consumer product to raise a stink in fad fetish Japan, according to Shukan Asahi (4/25).
Ryukodo, a Kyoto-based decoration manufacturer, has trouble pushing out enough of its golden turds to keep up with demand.
The blistering pace at which they've sold since JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927698222003-04-17T20:04:00.000+10:002003-04-17T20:16:33.000+10:00Madonna, for the love of God, just give up now before you make yourself look more ridiculous.Madonna has revealed her forthcoming children's books are morality tales based on the mystical Hebrew texts she studies.
The singer, who is poised to claim her 11th UK number one this weekend with American Life, said she wants to write something deeper than the other "vapid and vacant" titles for JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927696712003-04-17T19:59:00.000+10:002003-04-17T19:59:01.543+10:00Even Jesus must wear a helmet when he's on his bike.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927696502003-04-17T19:58:00.000+10:002003-04-17T19:58:23.170+10:00Bosnian police catch The Masturbator. Reports that he left a trail for them to follow have not been confirmed.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927696342003-04-17T19:57:00.000+10:002003-04-17T19:57:31.170+10:00"Waiter! There's a worm in my soup!" "OK, crybaby, give it here and I'll eat it myself..."JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927695952003-04-17T19:56:00.000+10:002003-04-17T19:56:08.653+10:00Hell hath no fury like a TV fan scorned, apparently.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927694812003-04-17T19:51:00.000+10:002003-04-17T19:51:27.186+10:00Alcoholics rejoice! The non-hangover vodka!JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927692692003-04-17T19:40:00.000+10:002003-04-17T19:44:32.000+10:00Oh God no.The 1980s television series "Knight Rider" and its crime-busting, talking car are revving up for the big screen.
The drama starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, owner of the high-tech Pontiac Trans Am known as K.I.T.T. The car's voice was supplied by William Daniels.
The film is planned as an action comedy, Daily Variety reported Monday.Thank Christ for that, at least. I had a JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927691472003-04-17T19:35:00.000+10:002003-04-17T19:35:33.030+10:00OH good grief. I've finally been able to access the Mohammed Al-Sahhaf fan site. Many priceless quotes have been offered from Sahhaf, but I haven't seen this one mentioned anywhere else yet:"It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait."Extraordinary. Absolutely JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927687982003-04-17T19:20:00.000+10:002003-04-17T19:20:35.293+10:00Ah, if only this weren't from the Weekly World News...JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927677432003-04-17T18:39:00.000+10:002003-04-17T18:39:31.670+10:00Sony withdraws, apologises for "shock and awe" patent.Electronics giant Sony has admitted "regrettable bad judgement" in attempting to register the phrase "shock and awe" - derived from US military tactics in Iraq - for its computer games division.
The company said it had withdrawn a trademark filing in the US for the phrase, which refers to the deliberately intimidating bombing techniques used JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927671362003-04-17T18:17:00.000+10:002003-04-17T18:17:31.233+10:00What the hell?US commanders have said they will launch a "snatch-and-shoot" raid for Saddam Hussein if they track him to a hiding place in neighbouring Syria, The Times newspaper said today.
Although troops hunting for members of the toppled Iraqi regime have been ordered to respect Syria's borders, an exception would be made in the case of Saddam, said a senior US source at Central Command in JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927669012003-04-17T18:09:00.000+10:002003-04-17T18:09:02.200+10:00Robert Thomas is coming home too.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927668912003-04-17T18:08:00.000+10:002003-04-17T18:08:29.996+10:00Australia pulling some of its troops out.Australia has decided to begin pulling its troops out of Iraq from next month with only a handful of specialists likely to remain in the Middle East after June.
The government announced the withdrawal Thursday, adding that it was reluctant to commit peacekeeping troops to Iraq. [...]
"Australia has provided highly effective specialist military capabilitiesJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927668102003-04-17T18:05:00.000+10:002003-04-17T18:05:19.360+10:00Bob Hope is nearly 100.The legendary entertainer Bob Hope will turn 100 next month, and friends and fans gathered in Hollywood Tuesday to celebrate his career. The comedian was named Hollywood's "Citizen of the Century" for his work as an entertainer, and his work entertaining U.S. troops overseas.
Bob Hope has been making people laugh since 1909, when the six-year-old immigrant from England JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927665822003-04-17T17:56:00.000+10:002003-04-17T17:56:26.716+10:00Dave Trowbridge pretty much says it all.I remember vividly a day ten years ago when I stood in the National Archives before the plinth bearing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, tears in my eyes, my throat tight with mingled awe and pride... how I would feel upon hearing that the flames of anarchy had claimed them?
It makes me weep.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927662132003-04-17T17:43:00.000+10:002003-04-17T17:43:13.090+10:00Incidentally, I've noticed Gummo splits up his more extended items across two or three posts because he says he has problems posting things over 2Kb in size. Wonder what's up with that? Cos the thing I've just posted clocked in a bit over 9Kb and it went in with no problems. I see quite a few other bloggers do extended entries too that are obviously over 2Kb. Don't know what Gummo's problem is JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927657882003-04-17T17:27:00.000+10:002003-04-18T13:24:23.000+10:00Ken was musing in the comments to this post:I'm also fascinated by the human drive to immortalise oneself, whether through conquest, career achievement, literature, art or whatever. Should we seek Buddhist annihilation of self and so minimise the suffering of being, or accept that egoistic ambition and suffering are the rocket fuel of human progress? Blogging in some of its forms might be a JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927176202003-04-17T00:47:00.000+10:002003-04-17T00:47:01.856+10:00Pauline Hanson finally loses.Pauline Hanson's bid to enter the NSW Parliament ended just before 6pm yesterday when the State Electoral Office finished counting votes for the Legislative Assembly and the Shooters Party MP, John Tingle, squeezed her out.Don't know if we should be crowing or not, then...JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927169432003-04-17T00:35:00.000+10:002003-04-17T00:35:36.046+10:00About fucking time.U.S. soldiers were standing guard Wednesday at Iraq's National Museum, where widespread looting broke out after the fall of Baghdad last week.
On Wednesday morning, a CNN news team saw two U.S. tanks parked inside the museum courtyard and another at a side entrance. Three Humvees -- two with mounted machine guns -- arrived soon afterward.
Signs in Arabic warned, "Under AmericanJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927114512003-04-16T22:41:00.000+10:002003-04-16T22:41:05.546+10:00Have you seen Ken Parish's dog? Three year old white poodle, answers to the name "Munchie".JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-927002332003-04-16T16:13:00.000+10:002003-04-16T16:13:57.746+10:00
*giggle*
Thanks to Ted Barlow for turning that one up.
JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926999822003-04-16T16:06:00.000+10:002003-04-16T16:06:59.700+10:00Christian rock band loses sales, airplay thanks to ideological incorrectness.In a letter dated Thurdsay, April 10, Alan Meltzer of Wind-Up Records officially recalled all Evanescence products from Christian stores, Christian radio, and Christian charts.
"Despite having roots within the Christian community prior to the release of Fallen," said Meltzer in the letter, "recent statements by band JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926995452003-04-16T15:55:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:55:34.623+10:00Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf may have committed suicide.It may well be the ultimate in spin from the Iraqi minister of information, but this afternoon there are reports circulating that Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has committed suicide. [...]
The fate of the man dubbed "Comical Ali" might not be known, but he is sure to live on in legendary status for his own creative interpretation of the truth, denying JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926993442003-04-16T15:51:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:51:07.950+10:00Vote now for who you want to be the next President of the US. Buddha is leading by a comfortable margin against W., though the Olsen Twins are, a little disturbingly, coming second.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926990302003-04-16T15:43:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:43:09.013+10:00Well DUH.Scientists believe they may have found a way to reduce the risk of a heart attack - watch an exciting football match.
However, it may be a high risk strategy, as it only seems to hold good if your team wins.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926989822003-04-16T15:42:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:42:00.060+10:00Maybe this is how the problem of the looting in Iraq should be solved.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926989402003-04-16T15:40:00.001+10:002003-04-16T15:40:52.843+10:00Indiana college haunted by "barfing ghost".JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926989202003-04-16T15:40:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:40:25.293+10:00I don't fucking think so, thank you very much.We bloggers spend so much time, energy, and emotional effort revealing the most intimate details of our lives on our websites ... and yet most of us balk at showing a few square inches of skin.
What do we have to hide if we're supposedly letting it all hang out via our weblogs?
That's the purpose of this project: to challenge people's assumptions (JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926988182003-04-16T15:37:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:37:59.873+10:00OK, this is taking the S/M thing a little too far for my liking.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926976732003-04-16T15:12:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:12:24.560+10:00James Cameron comes in on 90th day of nine-day wonder (with apologies to Alfred Hitchcock).Titanic director James Cameron is to film his next blockbuster in 3D.
Cameron, who also directed Terminator 2 and The Abyss, has just released documentary Ghosts of the Abyss - about returning to the Titanic.
And he revealed his next big movie project will be filmed in the same way, with audience members JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926975852003-04-16T15:10:00.000+10:002003-04-16T16:23:45.000+10:00Tony Blair: typical bloody man.Tony Blair may be a hardworking Prime Minister, but his wife has revealed his housekeeping skills leave a lot to be desired.
Cherie Blair is in Australia to attend several conferences and to give a lecture next week at Perth's Edith Cowan University.
During a speech on women and human rights in Melbourne, she said that while more women now work in countries like JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926975322003-04-16T15:09:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:09:23.076+10:00Charity wank set for webcast. Well, sort of.A community sex education centre is to broadcast a charity masturbate-a-thon live on the internet.
It's being organised by Carol Queen of The Centre for Sex & Culture in San Francisco.
The Centre is a non-profit, sex education organisation which provides events, classes and a library.
Participants in the May 2 event will collect money for charity and JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926972262003-04-16T15:02:00.000+10:002003-04-16T15:02:25.356+10:00RIP Jean-Yves Escoffier.Jean-Yves Escoffier, a French cinematographer who shot the original "Three Men and a Cradle" for Coline Serreau, has died of a heart seizure in Los Angeles. He was 52.
A memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. Friday at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. He died April 1.
A graduate of the Ecole Louis Lumiere in Paris, Escoffier was known in Europe for his collaboration JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926966722003-04-16T14:50:00.000+10:002003-04-16T14:50:08.246+10:00Just experimenting with borders around blockquoted text. Marking out the blockquoted areas with a separate background colour is kind of not very good when the blockquote contains a link, I've noticed. The border works much better.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926957342003-04-16T14:30:00.000+10:002003-04-16T14:30:36.436+10:00Oh, and, polling has now ceased operation. 100 people voted no, 77 voted yes. Results indicate, therefore, that only 44% of people would fellate George W. Bush to achieve permanent and unconditional world peace and 56% would not. (Yes I know that's a baseless extrapolation which I excoriate proper polling organisations and media for making, but it's MY poll. Shut up.) I don't know whether or not JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926939882003-04-16T13:57:00.000+10:002003-04-16T13:57:19.623+10:00Howard knows his limits, apparently.MITCHELL:
The Americans also seem to be turning attention to Syria. Do you support that?
PRIME MINISTER:
Well I certainly support the warnings they’ve given Syria about not cooperating with terrorism. I don’t think what the Americans have said should be construed for a moment as heralding some kind of invasion of Syria. I think there has been a complete JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926933102003-04-16T13:44:00.000+10:002003-04-16T13:44:42.530+10:00What was that about truth being the first casualty of war?THE “Stay Lucky” soldier pictured wearing a helmet riddled with bullet holes was playing a PRANK, The Sun can reveal.
Comical commando Eric Walderman and his comrades fooled Gulf War II newsmen by pretending he had escaped death by inches when he was shot at while fighting Iraqis.
In fact his Kevlar helmet was just lying on top of his packJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926925622003-04-16T13:30:00.000+10:002003-04-16T13:30:03.593+10:00On parallel universes.Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you readJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926920012003-04-16T13:19:00.000+10:002003-04-16T13:19:34.623+10:00Achille Lauro hijack leader belatedly arrested.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926901392003-04-16T12:47:00.000+10:002003-04-16T12:47:00.750+10:00Now James Frazier might lose that Academy Award of his.An Australian film-maker's 1997 Academy Award is in doubt, after a US judge ruled his "revolutionary" camera lens does not work.
Los Angeles Judge Gary Feess has ruled that Australian James Frazier faked a videotape to win a patent for the lens system, court officials say.
The judge has nullified the camera's patent and Oscar officials say JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926900182003-04-16T12:44:00.000+10:002003-04-16T12:44:39.530+10:00The rise and fall of the music video.The irony is that in the late '80s and early '90s, as videos became more formally sophisticated and better produced, they were played less and less on MTV. The channel joined the A.C. Nielsen ratings system in the early '80s, which measures viewership in 15-minute increments. People watched one or two videos in a row, but rarely three or four. So MTV began JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926895552003-04-16T12:36:00.000+10:002003-04-16T12:36:27.700+10:00Why don't they just fucking well ban cigarettes altogether?A SOUTH Australian government taskforce has recommended smoking be banned in all bars, gaming areas, nightclubs and dining venues within two years.
The report from the Hospitality Smoke-free Taskforce says the ban should come into effect on March 1, 2005.
It also suggests 50 per cent of the area of al fresco venues be included and calls JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926892032003-04-16T12:30:00.000+10:002003-04-16T12:30:22.200+10:00US forces trying to hinder media coverage in Iraq.US forces yesterday tried to stop the media from covering a third day of anti-American protests by Iraqis outside a hotel housing a US operations base, according to a reporter at the scene.
Up to 300 Iraqis gathered outside the Palestine Hotel to express rage at what they said was the US failure to restore order after the fall of Saddam Hussein's JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926886442003-04-16T12:20:00.000+10:002003-04-16T12:20:03.983+10:00And the war goes on.United States troops opened fire on a crowd hostile to the new pro-American governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday, killing at least 10 people and injuring as many as 100, witnesses and doctors said.
The shooting overshadowed the start of US-brokered talks aimed at sketching out a post-Saddam Iraq.
At Mosul hospital Dr Ayad al-Ramadhani said the American JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926435762003-04-15T21:33:00.000+10:002003-04-15T21:33:16.733+10:00Australia loses asylum appeal. We've all been told to go back to our own country... oh all right, no we haven't.Australia's federal court has ruled the government has no power to detain asylum seekers prior to deportation where they have been refused permission to enter another country.
The Federal Court dismissed Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock's appeal against Palestinian man, Akram Al JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926435162003-04-15T21:31:00.000+10:002003-04-15T21:31:14.903+10:00Googlenoia.Perhaps the time has come to recognise this dominant search engine for what it is - a public utility that must be regulated in the public interest.
The argument about keeping away from regulating the internet and the web has always been that the technology is not mature enough or important enough to merit government interference.
Surely, with more than half of UK adults using the JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926417572003-04-15T20:34:00.000+10:002003-04-15T20:34:38.686+10:00Oh what the fuck has happened to my template NOW? The blog looks as it should when I actually publish it but when I go into the template settings to edit something it's giving me an outdated version of the template that I don't want. "Christ Jesus, Blogger are such utter cunts."JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926413792003-04-15T20:20:00.000+10:002003-04-15T20:26:57.000+10:00The blogosphere is slowly realising that there was a massacre in the former Zaire last week, around the same time that Coalition forces were knocking down statues in Baghdad. (I did read about it in the papers, but haven't posted on it. Think my head's been too full of Iraq.)The United States has condemned the reported massacre of 1,000 civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo and urged the JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926381022003-04-15T18:21:00.000+10:002003-04-15T18:21:14.686+10:00Nigel Richardson really can't stand Donald Rumsfeld.JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926378632003-04-15T18:13:00.000+10:002003-04-15T18:13:08.560+10:00This much Ian McCulloch from Echo and the Bunnymen knows.We were the first band to split up because of culinary differences. If you're in a band, there are some things you just don't do. Will Sergeant [guitar] and Les Pattinson [bass] would have an 'egg butty' just after they came offstage at the Albert Hall. Can you imagine? Towards the end of the band, we had frying pans backstage, camping JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926376092003-04-15T18:03:00.000+10:002003-04-15T18:03:40.890+10:00Muslims angry over leniency for terrorist.Seminole podiatrist Robert J. Goldstein pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to plotting to blow up a local mosque.
Goldstein faces 121/2 to 15 years in prison, according to a plea agreement, about two years less than he likely would face if convicted of the same charges at trial.
Officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office expressed relief that the JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926374662003-04-15T17:58:00.000+10:002003-04-15T17:58:41.623+10:00US to forgive Iraqi debt?Finance ministers and development activists gathered here Friday for meetings to discuss the world economy, poverty and reform of the world's financial institutions were stunned when a U.S. official suggested that global creditors should forgive Iraqi debts.
U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose government often sets the tempo for meetings such as this weekend's JGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926373112003-04-15T17:53:00.000+10:002003-04-15T17:53:30.890+10:00Like quite a few people, Andrew Gumbel's wondering where the WMDs are.They were the reason the United States and Britain were in such a hurry to go to war, the threat the rank-and-file troops feared most.
And yet, after three weeks of war, after the capture of Baghdad and the collapse of the Iraqi government, Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction – those weapons that President Bush, on theJGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854969.post-926366702003-04-15T17:30:00.000+10:002003-04-15T17:30:42.110+10:00Maybe this is what Iraq needs instead of our system of government.A professional wrestler who fought his way to victory in local assembly elections under his ring name and wearing his trademark mask has vowed the mask will not leave his face even after he enters the staid halls of Japanese politics.
"This is my face," the wrestler -- known as "The Great Sasuke" -- was quoted by the Nikkan Sports JGnoreply@blogger.com