Current favourite waste of time whilst at work is the Miniclip game Acid Factory. Like all great games nowadays it contains zombies. Sweet! Should keep me sated with zombie killing until I can afford an Xbox 360, Dead Rising and a HDTV to go with it.
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A quote of Albert Einstein’s in reference to his religiousness, by way of Richard Dawkins in The Independent.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Personally I’m on the fence between outright Atheism and Agnosticism.
Alex Tew of Million Dollar Homepage fame is at it again with yet another million dollar idea and now one lucky visitor to his site will get to share the wealth this time.
Pixelotto offers visitors to the site the chance to win $1,000,000 – just by clicking ads on yet another 1000px by 1000px webpage.
I reckon the clever little bugger has struck gold again with this idea by giving visitors an incentive to click the ads now the outgoing traffic should be greatly increased in comparison with the Million Dollar Homepage.
The only downside I can see for advertisers is again getting lost in the chaos, I’m sure those that invest a great deal of money and purchase large chunks of virtual real estate will see that investment pay off as users are in my opinion more likely to click to win on the larger more obvious ads. Lastminute.com seem to share my view as they have beaten the rush and dropped a packet on ten thousand pixels in the centre near the top of the page.
I’ve rewatching season five of the tv show 24 in preparation for the imminent start of season six and I’m starting to feel some pity for the character of Rick Burke.
Who is Rick Burke you wonder?
He is the CTU interrogator/torturer played by Martin Papazian. Why should I feel pity for a torturer though? Well as if his occupation wasn’t bad enough it seems that half the people he is asked to ‘interrogate’ by his superiors in CTU are entirely innocent and have no information at all for him to extract from them.
Not only that but when he does actually have a genuine suspect to interrogate, Christopher Henderson, Burke is knocked out by Tony Almeida before he can finish the job.
I had initially thought that Burke was in season four also but he is in fact the second iteration of a character whose sole purpose is to take over the role of torturer from Jack Bauer so that Bauer’s heroics are not so diminished by carrying out such acts as they have been in previous seasons.
The season four CTU chief interrogator was an Agent Richards as portrayed by Butch Klein who has the thankless task of torturing Richard Heller and Sarah Gavin, who of course were innocent of conspiring with the terrorists.
I finally got around to activating my new credit card this morning that I had received a few weeks ago.
I put it off as I really do hate these phone calls and I’ve done it quite a few times in the past as I transfer balances around to new cards in order to take advantage of the 0% balance transfer rates.
It is a good security procedure but more and more the card companies are using it as an opportunity to flog their overpriced payment protection policies. So sure enough having sat there on hold for five minutes waiting until they could connect me to an operator I was then told it would take five minutes to activate my card.
Like hell does it!
It takes a fraction of a second to activate the card and then five minutes of sales pitch.
BBC News: Musical copyright terms ‘to stay’
See also ReleaseTheMusic.org
The Guardian reports: Police want power to crack down on offensive demo chants and slogans
Present curbs are too light, Met chief to tell Goldsmith
This seems like nothing more than a power grab and an appeal to the right wing members sections of Britain that are incensed by these uppity sandal-wearing Lefties and Muslim types voicing their displeasure about various things.
The country’s biggest force, the Metropolitan police, is to lobby the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, because officers believe that large sections of the population have become increasingly politicised, and there is a growing sense that the current restrictions on demonstrations are too light.
It seems to me that Tony Blair’s government has recently freaked out about something which has been going on for quite a few years and that is issue politics. The populace seem generally apathetic about the political parties but a number are passionate about singular political issues be it marching in opposition to the Hunting Bill or demonstrating against the Iraq war etc. Also there has been a rise in political views being expressed online as the number of fora has increased where such views can be aired.
I think that they have freaked out because virtually all these views being expressed are anti-government. You’d be hard pressed to find any Joe Public commenter expressing a pro-Iraq opinion for example.
Most worrying is the following bit of it.
The police want powers to tackle a “grey area” in the array of public order laws. At present, causing offence by itself is not a criminal offence.
Causing offence is not a criminal offence and it never bloody well should be.
He talks about respecting freedom of speech.
We also need to think more laterally around how we police public demonstrations where ‘offence’ could be caused, while still respecting the British position around freedom of speech.
But this sounds like just a piece of management speak that means nothing.
But then I’m part of the problem not the solution aren’t I.
First there was the audition tape and then there was the dubious return of Brian Atene and now finally the real Atene has returned.
He seems like a decent if slightly odd fellow and I do hope that his new found fame does allow him to help The Christopher Reeve Foundation in the way he wishes, my own order for the Superman dog tags in aid of The Christopher Reeve Foundation has gone in.
I agree with Geekhorde at Metafilter that he would make a good voice actor.
I’m so disengaged with my home town of Devizes it’s unreal. Somehow I had totally missed the fact that tonight was the opening of the Devizes Christmas Market. I don’t even know if it’s going to be a fixture in the Market Place up until Christmas or is just a one off for tonight.
Anyway I was walking into town to post off some packages and remarked to myself that there seemed to be a lot of people on the streets this evening and that many of the kids appeared to have very cheap looking lightsabre toys. Then I stumbled upon a burger van and a Punch and Judy show stationed outside the job centre or whatever the hell the New-Labour title is for it now. 
It was then that I knew for certain that something was going on in town tonight and sure enough there is an outdoor Christmas market going on selling the tackiest cheapest crap possible. These Devizes market traders really know their customers.