Archive for September 2002

Cool Flash game of the day: Mad Shark. Great White versus scuba divers — you get to play the shark ;)
For some real-life horror, have a look at the Theme Park Insider Accident List for reports of good rides that turn bad.

Oh dear, Marko Karppinen has discovered that of the W3C’s 467 members, only 21, or 4.6%, have web sites that use valid HTML.

James Fallows has written a very interesting (long) piece for The Atlantic, The Fifty-first State?, which assumes that if/when the the US attacks Iraq, it will eventually ‘win’. But what will happen then?
Going to war with Iraq would mean shouldering all the responsibilities of an occupying power the moment victory was achieved. These would include [...]

Zoe Williams has written an astute commentary on the police and media’s double-standards regarding Sunday’s countryside march and next weekend’s anti-war march.
If you need any more convincing that the countryside march was a crock of shit, then maybe you should know that the TV showed Noel Edmunds marching — and any friend of Noel Edmunds [...]

Top 10 proposed names for the US’s impending attack on Iraq:

Operation Enduring Scapegoat
Operation Obliterate Iraq’s Oil Infrastructure So That Dick Cheney’s Halliburton Can Rebuild It At A Huge Profit, Like After The Last War With Iraq
Operation Belated Father’s Day Gift
Operation Because I Said So
Operation We Couldn’t Find bin Laden
Operation Personal Vendetta
Operation George Oilwell
Operation Enron Amnesia
Operation [...]

Woooo! There was an earth tremor here (and over lots of the UK) just before 1am. Very weird. Still, nothing to worry about — apparently the UK’s largest onshore earthquake centred on the Llyn Peninsula, North Wales, on July 19, 1984, and measured a paltry 5.4.

It’s been six days since A Hundred Days Off came out, and I’ve literally not listened to another CD since. Definitely better than Beaucoup Fish (which I really liked). I’ve also been listening to the foxes that inhabit the back gardens here. It seems they have been going to evening classes in electronics, and have [...]

Just added a few more choice random Bushisms, my favourite new one being:
A vampire is a… a… cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.

Underworld’s new album, A Hundred Days Off, came out today, and naturally I popped over to Brixton to get it. I always feel a little trepidation the first time I play a new CD by a group I like, and as Underworld are my favourite band, today was no exception. Thankfully, I was not disappointed [...]

It was about this time of night exactly a year ago, as I sat watching reruns of the day’s terrible events, trying to make sense of the horror, that a thought occurred to me: perhaps the US will finally wake up to the fact that its foreign policies often have tragic consequences for innocent, normal [...]