honesty in a NuLabour drone?

the sign on Kerry Mccarthy's blog front page reads 'conform & obey'.

ah well... at least some of them are a *little* bit honest.

http://kerry-mccarthy.blogspot.com/

oh dear - who DO we believe?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145571/Neighbours-make-new-complaint-Jacqui-Smith-She-stays-months-year.htm

hmmm. doesn't there come ANY point with these troughing, corrupt twats where either they or someone from the apparatchik says 'look, for everyone's sakes, go quietly. Now.'

evidently not...

hazel 'sex dwarf' blears

as she's so memorably described elsewhere in the blogosphere, is ripped into here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/10/hazel-blears-george-monbiot in the Grauniad of all places. Anyone who has the dubious honour of her misrepresentation (she was my local MP for a time when I was resident on manchester) will, no doubt, think it quite fair in its portrayal of her. I've encountered earthworms with more spine.

one rule for me...

Labour peer Lord Ahmed, who expressed his concerns to the parliamentary authorities about Mr Wilders' visit, told the BBC: "This man doesn't have any respect for law. He's doing this for publicity and he's seeking that and getting that."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7885918.stm

as much respect for the law as someone found guilty of dangerous driving where someone was killed as a result of it, eh? it also appears he has a peculiar idea of what should be allowed as free speech in a democracy and what he wants to be banned -

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article378140.ece

painting pictures with words...

'As Brown drives the British economy with all the skill and accuracy of a one-eyed mad Scotsman in the Indy 500...'

http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2009/02/charity-begins-at-home-in-government.html

from Ambush Predator.

and another thing...

what the fucking fuck, pray tell, is 'chillaxing' exactly??? you fuckwits.

apartheid for the UK?

lee jasper seems to want it. OH, in the comments on his original post here - http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-apartheid.html , links to the excellent 'to miss with love' piece related to this here - http://tomisswithlove.blogspot.com/2009/01/send-them-back-to-africa.html

scallywagga - bbc3's new 'comedy' show

sent to the BBC this morning at 0140-

'good lord, this is unfunny to the point where it makes 'two pints' look like Monty Python at the very height of their powers. I've had cases of diaorreah that raised more smiles. please, please, please just pay off the writer and tell him never to come near the BBC again. or any other television channel for that matter.'

the pros and cons of hitch-hiking

if, like me, you're a fan of the late Douglas Adams' work, then this http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/ is an interesting insight into a sideline of the whole HHGTTG thing, and paints a somewhat unflattering picture of the late mr. adams himself.

tough on crime

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/04/11/noindex/wafrica111.xml

SA's deputy security minister doesnt mince her words.

come on down - the price is right?

someone on a messageboard I frequent is trying to go a whole year without doing any of their shopping in a supermarket - http://supermarkupsweep.wordpress.com/ - it will be interesting to see how they get on. personally, I'm not happy with the stranglehold Tesco's reportedly have on the high street - isnt it supposed to be something like one out of every seven pounds spent in the UK spent there? but, like a lot of things in my life, I'm too busy (LAZY) to do anything about it and investigate the alternatives.
but I will be taking an interest in how this works out.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE 1917 - 2008

the man who has been described as 'the colossus of science fiction' has passed away at his home in Sri Lanka. personally, I've been a fan since reading his books at the local public library when I was still at primary school. some of my most treasured books are by him - from an ancient 50s paperback copy of 'The Sands Of Mars' I picked up in a secondhand shop over twenty years ago, to the pair of signed hardbacks of '2001' I bought from Waterstones on the anniversary of his vision at the start of the new millennium. always a voice for rationality and good in his writings, he will be sorely missed in the years ahead.

the BBC obituary - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2358011.stm

F1 2008

interesting article on the new season found here

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns20118.html

and we're getting the new N96 from august, apparently

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/11/nokia_n96_august_uk_release/

campfire story

came across this the other day - if it's true, how creepy can you get?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/02/27/notes022708.DTL

Geekery

Not that I'm really surprised, but it would appear that the US version of Spaced is on the cards to be a right bag of cunt - http://www.denofgeek.com/television/13192/simon_pegg_on_the_us_spaced_remake.html
now, I'm only an SF geek (and not a major one at that - I dont like B5, and the only Star Trek I'll sit and watch is The Next Generation) - but surely, like the sad sacks who keep turning up for X-factor auditions, US tv execs should know by now by US adaptations of UK comedies dont have the *best* track record of success. As Pegg says though, it's particularly shitty that no credit at all is given to Jessica Stevenson for her work on it.

And on the SF subject, this - http://www.halproject.com/hal/ - has a superb screensaver to download based on the computer displays seen aboard the Discovery during 2001.