Richard Wilson just came to see The Counterfeiters. I managed to restrain myself from contriving a situation at which I could say “I don’t believe it!” in front of him.
I wouldn’t want a repeat of the following.
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The Guardian reports that the UK is backing a plan to split Taliban from within.
The British government has thrown its backing behind an ambitious Afghan strategy to split the Taliban by securing the defection of senior members of the militant group and large numbers of their followers.
The strategy, spearheaded by the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, reflects a significant shift in British policy, and is showing initial signs of success.
This would seem to me to be a classic case of divide and conquer, a sensible course of action I think as the ultimate goal is to bring peace to Afghanistan not to capture or kill every single member of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the country. It can only be a good thing if more moderate members of the Taliban who are not really adherants to the ideology but are members out of tribal loyalty can be persuaded to lay down arms. politics, terrorism
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Hitler Banned From iSketch!
I’ve not played iSketch in over a year but I still found this most hilarious.
BBC News: Burning chilli sparks terror fear
A pot of burning chilli at the Thai Cottage restaurant on Monday sparked fears of a biological terror attack.
Roads were closed and homes evacuated by police whilst firefighters wearing protective breathing apparatus broke down the door to the restaurant where they discovered the source was merely a 9lb pot of chillies.
Ben Stein, actor, game show host, economist and White House speechwriter has embarked upon a heroic and, at times, shocking journey in the new documentary Expelled to confront the world’s top scientists, educators and philosophers, regarding their ‘persecution’ of the academics who support the non-science that is Intelligent Design.
Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers amongst others claim they were duped into appearing in the film believing it to be a film that was to be titled Crossroads (no not that Crossroads, nor this one) that would be a debate about creationism versus Darwinism. No wonder Ferris took a day off from school with this guy as his teacher (NSFW).
Evolutionary science is a wide discipline with differing theories as to the mechanics of how it happened, but when one resorts to a theory that there was a creator to fill the gaps in the theory of evolution rather than look for evidence, study that evidence and hypothesize then you’ve stopped being a scientist and have become a fantasist.
It has been on the cards for quite a long time, but Amazon.com have finally launched their drm-free MP3 music download service.
Amazon MP3 offers over 2 Million songs from more than 180,000 artists and over 20,000 Labels, including EMI Music and Universal Music Group.
“Amazon MP3 is an all-MP3, DRM-free catalog of a la carte music from major labels and independent labels, playable on any device, in high-quality audio, at low prices,” said Bill Carr, Amazon.com Vice President for Digital Music.
You can navigate to the relevant section of the site via a link from the Amazon.com homepage or use the direct link http://www.amazonmp3.com.
This could well be the iTunes-killer that the record companies have been looking for. By insisting on the implementation of DRM before they licensed their catalogues to Apple the major labels basically shot themselves in the foot because they thereby gave Apple control over the music and allowed their consumers to become locked in to using Apple iPods.
Apple became the distribution channel for downloadable music and could then set the terms by which music would be sold online.
With the arrival of what is probably the largest online retailer of music on CD in to the arena of music downloads the future looks interesting.
I’d advise the police to be cautious as it is established fact that
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
That they haven’t yet flipped out is a sure sign that they are probably on the verge of doing so.
Customers of the Litten Tree pub in Bicester were apparently quite happy to be submitted to a drug test upon entering the premises. [via]
The title of the fourth Indiana Jones movie has been announced and it’s a bit of a mouthful.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The movie is to have a simultaneous worldwide release on Thursday, May 22, 2008.
The title would suggest that our Indy will be making a trip south of the border to the Mesoamerica region the site of the discovery of Crystal skulls.
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Never too young for GTA
I think the age of four is the perfect time for Lil Derrick to be learning about drive-bys, pimps, hookers, corrupt cops, drugs and the titular grand theft autos.
And it’s too bad if he’s British that he’ll not be able to appreciate the Manhunt 2 cake he’ll no doubt get for his fifth.