Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Those DANGEROUS Water Wings for Children!

Oh, puuu-lease! Give me a break! This just in from a UK newspaper:

SWIMMING pools must not give armbands to kids because health chiefs say they are DANGEROUS.

Blowing up inflatables by mouth could spread germs, claim bureaucrats.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007340095,00.html

Of course, there are always DANGEROUS SALADS to deal with, too...

One in 10 salads has poisonous bacteria

By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 22/07/2007

Food safety experts are calling for stricter production controls on ready-to-eat salads after tests revealed that many contain bacteria which can cause potentially deadly food poisoning.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007340095,00.html

Next thing you know, the government will tell me that waking up, taking a shower, and then having my breakfast will be dangerous.

JS Online: Roman Catholic is only true church, pope says

JS Online: Roman Catholic is only true church, pope says

About us - Creation Museum

About us - Creation Museum

A young Earth—it’s not the issue!

A young Earth—it’s not the issue!

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Sat-nav lorry trapped in village

BBC News Online | England | Kent | Sat-nav lorry trapped in village

Movie Review Chops: How to slam a bad movie

Unfortunately, his music truly is as bad as it sounds

A fine example of the critical slam, by Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle Pop Culture Critic. which concludes, with respect to the movie "Undiscovered"
Advisory: This film contains some adult language and sexual situations. Ashlee Simpson's voice may be hazardous to people with heart problems, high blood pressure and extreme sensitivity to bad pop music.

The Basra Badgers

Taipei Times - Basra Badger Story

Basra badger rumour mill: Guardian News blog

Basra badger rumour mill from Guardian News blog

Here Begins Our Funky Weird Blog Spot

This is a minimal-ish blog that we use to capture URLs for stories we find interesting.

Friday, July 13, 2007

The Tubes of Sheremetyevo

So there we were in Sheremetyevo (Moscow Airport) on our way home from speaking at Interop and my buddy Winn said Dude, what are they? And I looked up, where he was pointing, and there were all these tubes. Apparently they served no purpose other than to decorate the ceiling. I decided they were Soviet-era, Cold War surplus tubes that had once formed part of the Soviet Internetski, an early competitor to what we now know as the Internet.