Archive for August, 2007
Don’t Leave Home Without It
Happy Friday, everyone!
Hope the coming weekend is immoderately fantastic for you. Should you, by accident or design, find yourself abducted by aliens, do make sure that you’ve got your Location Earth Dog Tag on your person. You never know when you might need it.
See you Monday!
CreateSpace: My Underwear Is Immaculate
“Amazon becomes the ultimate clearing house for books of all kinds (and much else besides), with none of the traditional middlemen getting a look in. Genius. If you’re an agent, publisher, wholesaler, or retailer of books and you haven’t just soiled your undies, then you don’t understand what’s going on.”
- Timo Hannay, [...]
Iran Will be Bombed
I think it is a foregone conclusion that Iran will be bombed.
I had an interesting discussion this afternoon with someone who is well-informed about the region, and much more of an insider than I am. He was considerably less certain about it than me, and I respect his opinion. However, barring last-minute changes of plan, [...]
Don’t Panic. I Think.
I like to blog the end of the working week with a light, optimistic “And finally…” piece, so here it is. Recent crop circles in Wiltshire tell us the world will end tomorrow, Saturday August the 18th. The precise means of our undoing are, as yet, unclear, but may involve rays from outer space. Since [...]
We Don’t Like Your Face
This is getting sillier and sillier by the minute… and also, several more degrees more sinister. What kind of expression, pray, does a potential terrorist have on his or her face as they board their target plane?
I suspect it’s surprisingly similar to the sort of expression on the faces of dozens of outraged airplane passengers [...]
The Truth That Sticks
To dinner with the estimable Martin Bell last night. Martin is Britain’s Walter Winchell - perhaps uniquely for a television journalist (and former MP) he commands great respect and deep affection across a very diverse audience: he is a true British institution.
Martin’s latest book, THE TRUTH THAT STICKS (which I am proud to have [...]
Hello, World!
I’ve been away for the past week, much of it spent in the middle of a sugar beet field in (literally) darkest Suffolk, observing the universe, being shot at by poachers, and being terrified by a very large and attitudinous alpha-male hedgehog. As a result, there are over 500 e-mails in my inbox, [...]
DailyLit
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Evil Bert
This isn’t new, bit it kills me each time I see it…
Benny’s Cash Problem
As a youngster, I dabbled a bit in hypnotism. So, some years later, when I first saw TV evangelist Benny Hinn doing his thing, it seemed to be to be a pretty average and repetitive performance of stage hypnotism, nothing more. I now see from his website that money is tight, and he is now [...]
Thanks for all the fish…
Fascinating piece from a Lockheed Martin employee about terraforming Mars – and beyond. He may be the first person to establish a dollar value on Mars realty; “Sold at an average value of $10 per acre, Mars would be worth $358 billion.” The whole thing strikes me as full of human hubris, but [...]
The Fur Flies…
Continuing my infrequent (and entirely non-participatory, I hasten to add) excursions into the more outré backwaters of human sexuality, this will get your dander up…
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