Category: General

SomethingAwful regularly has very amusing competitions to make use of Photoshoppery to come up with some amusing pictures based on a theme. Their humour does tend slightly towards the puerile, and the quality of the images is less than what you would see at Worth1000, but sometimes there is some really great stuff. Take for example this contest: Lights! Camera!… Read more →

All the taste of Soylent Green, none of the moral dilemmas! I actually don’t know if hufu, the human-flesh flavoured tofu, is real or a good joke, but I’m leaning pretty heavily towards it being a lovely parody. Their website will sell you a lot of t-shirts & even the Soylent Green DVD, but appears to be back-ordered on their… Read more →

There’s a lot of different emotional strains going in this Times story… IN A tale that could have been lifted from the pages of a children’s story book, a five-year-old dog foraging for food has been credited with saving the life of a baby who had been left alone in a Nairobi forest for two days. There’s definitely anger, at… Read more →

It’s not that hard to get it right: Read more →

Wow. I need a road trip. A lot. Read more →

Best headline ever. Somewhere there is Fletch wannabe laughing at the headline he slipped past his editor. (I wonder if gnomes run to the underwater sanctuary to avoid this kind of violence.) * You know how sometimes when you’re writing up your Articles of Piracy you wish you had access to some really snazzy buccaneering fonts–just to make it look… Read more →

Sometimes things seem to pop up in nice thematic clusters. For instance, I saw an interesting article on Cajun English at PBS (link via Brad Parker) that I found very interesting. Despite being subjected to abuse and stigmatization for many years, Cajun English speakers abound. Why would this be? Why would a dialect which was considered a mark of ignorance… Read more →

It’s been a very busy week here at Le Château De La Folie. Nothing that would make a good story, though: lots of extra hours of work for me (and indeed, there are developments at work that I am not best pleased with; nothing serious, just annoying), and lots of parent stuff that needed doing around the house. Oh, and… Read more →

Note to self: bring own beer supply on next flight. Death of airline passenger subdued by other passengers probed – Mar 21, 2005 NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are investigating the death of a man who was subdued by several fellow airline passengers after he became disruptive on a New York-bound flight, a spokesman said Sunday. William Lee was pronounced… Read more →

You learn something new every day. Today, I learned from the Daily Show that sciatic nerve problems arise from too much child molestation. Some recent events in far off lands are suddenly so clear to me… Read more →

Lots of short takes, to get rid of a bunch of things I have bookmarked in my “to blog” folder. * Ken Macleod is one of the most recent wave of bright lights of British science fiction. He’s also possibly even further left than I am. He keeps a blog (named, I might add, for an Oysterband lyric, whether that’s… Read more →

Just working very long hours, and more than a little sick. Mad leftist rants to recommence sometime this week. Read more →

Despite the title of this post, there is no complex interconnection between these various stories. (… or is there?) First, there was the announcement about the government’s continued increased funding of the CBC (not “continuning to increase”, just “continuing the last increase”) that Tod Maffin blogged about. (As a CBC employee, you can imagine that Tod is particularly interested.) I’m… Read more →

Look, I’ve said it before and I’ll probably say it again: ancient temples that were hidden by “natural disasters” should be left well enough alone. However, the modern rational institutions seem to be unable to learn the lessons that Lovecraft tried so hard to teach, and exploration of the undersea temples and city that were recently uncovered by the tsunami… Read more →