Neu Arbeit, our glorious leaders, have a plan to reduce the number of smokers in the country.
It is in the best traditions of totalitarianism (think the goose-step) both farcical and terrifying. They want to ban retailers from displaying cigarettes. They will now have to be sold like Corporal Jones’s sausages from under the counter.
There are [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2008’
Victory Cigarettes
Tamara de Lempicka
An exhibition of her work opened in London shortly after I left. Twenty three years in London and I missed this by just two months.
Sigh.
Words of the Prophet
Translation of Sahih Bukhari - Volume 4, Book 54, Number 537:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said “If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease.”
More Islamic tolerance
Thank God Islam is tolerant and peaceful, just imagine how dreadful things would be if it were as violent as say, every other religion in the world.
Authorities in the overwhelmingly Muslim nation of Algeria have closed half of the Protestant churches in the country over the last six months, alerted persecution watchdog groups this week.
And [...]
Memories…
This reminds me of my student days…
On occasions I did indeed find “matter” in the sink. We had an (unused) tampon stuck to the living room ceiling in our house on Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham (Gawd knows why it got there) and tumbleweeds of fluff on the stairs. When one of my housemates moved out she [...]
A Charitable Appeal
Some of you may find the following video disturbing, even offensive, but we feel it must be shown because it highlights one of the most terrible afflictions that anyone can suffer. This appeal is seeking to raise awareness about, and raise funds to treat it’s sufferers and ultimately find a cure.
Pilger’s can strike people of [...]
The future is going to be wonderful, I can’t wait to visit
This is insane. You have got to be crazy to think of these ideas in the first place, or, at least, somewhere off 90 degrees from normal.
Can you imagine printing a house? Design it, let the punter explore it using one of these, and then, within a couple of days, have it printed in 3-D [...]
Who is better
I have a good friend who is a firm socialist, he truly believes that enforced collectivism is both practically and morally superior to individual or voluntarily collectivist action, which he sees simply as selfishness.
I know him to be a good man, and in considering past conversations with him, I have concluded that he looks around [...]
Borrowed Time
Via yesterday’s BBC (I do have other stuff to do y’know!).
Iran’s new parliament speaker has warned that it could set limits on future co-operation with the United Nation’s nuclear agency, the IAEA.
Former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said parts of the agency’s latest report on Tehran’s nuclear programme had been “deceitful” and “ambiguous”.
Oh, be still my [...]
Happy Birthday Kylie!
Kylie is 40 today.
Best wishes to the most famous Australian (with the possible exception of Rolf Harris and some cricketers), one of the true glories of Western Culture and the maker of the sexiest music video ever…
Have a good one Kylie!
Why Celebrities Should STFU
Noted geophysicist Sharon Stone has an opinion on the recent earthquake in China.
Stone made her comments last week in a brief interview with a Hong Kong film crew.
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said, according to footage [...]
Motes and Beams
Or perhaps it’s the way the BBC skewed this.
It’s about “human rights” and it would appear the the UN has been looking through the wrong end of the telescope (again).
“As the world’s most powerful state, the USA sets the standard for government behaviour globally,” the report says.
It notes that Washington “had distinguished itself in recent [...]
We are not alone!
There are other cat counters.
Unfortunately I don’t have the slightest idea what it’s about.
Just another theory
OK, short version. Dr Garrett Lisi (who is a surfer-dude, snowboarder and works outside the establishment, sort of) has managed to hang particle physics onto the E8 Lie group. That might be The Truth. It might be 42. It just might be. It’s beautiful and it has the conceptual advantage, over concepts like super-strings, that [...]
Just a theory…
Evolution is just a theory. Coming up with just a theory has a disturbing (to some) tendency to pique the interest of the Nobel committee. It also has a tendency to result in the awards of honourary doctorates from Columbia and Oxford and The Sorbonne. Knighthoods and advances from major publishers for what they hope [...]
