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The Shield: Of Mice and Lem

Just watched last night’s episode of The Shield, Of Mice and Lem. Holy Jebus that was a fucking brilliant episode, every minute of it was fantastic.

This season of The Shield seems to have gone by so quickly, it has been bloody excellent though. This the fifth season of the series has been one of the best in my opinion. Can’t wait to see how it all plays out in next week’s finale.

Kenny Johnson who plays Detective Curtis “Lemonhead” Lemansky was particularly outstanding in this faced with the awful dilemma of how to balance his loyalty to the Strike Team and his own self-preservation. With the Strike Team’s deal with Antwon Mitchell having now fallen through Lem’s fate is now horribly uncertain.

I foresaw the twist that was Wyms being promoted to Captain after being potentially faced with losing her job having failed to disclose her illness.

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The path to 9/11

Ze Frank recalls what he was doing five years ago on September 11th. Sombre yet still with that Ze Frank tinge of wry humour.

Meanwhile the ABC production The Path to 9/11 which stars Harvey Keitel will screen this Sunday and Monday on BBC Two. Rumour has it that the blame for the attacks that day are laid at the feet of the administration of President Clinton who apparently were so caught up in the Lewinsky affair that dropped the ball and failed to stop Bin Laden when they had the chance.

Wow, have I woken up in some bizarre parallel universe where things are very similar to my own but oh so slightly different. Was it not Bush who was the POTUS at that point and had been for several months and whose administration being informed of the threat that Al Qaeda posed instead chose to focus their attention on giving tax cuts, establishing a New American Century and planning regime change in Iraq.

In any case I expect that it and the many other documentaries and news reports over the next few days will do Bin Laden’s job for him by plunging the populations of the US and UK into a state of terror yet again. Who needs to blow up planes and buildings when the public can be forced into a state of terror by a box of flashing lights in the corner of their living rooms?

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Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia

BBC News: Human heads dumped in Mexico bar

Armed, masked men have burst into a bar in Mexico and flung five human heads onto a crowded dance floor, in an apparent warning to a rival drug gang.

Bloody hell! Truth really is stranger than fiction.

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Yellowjackets engulf Chevrolet

The Montgomery Advertiser reports that gigantic Yellowjacket nests have started to appear across the southern two-thirds of the US state of Alabama.

Specialists say it could be the result of a mild winter and drought conditions, or multiple queens forcing worker yellow jackets to enlarge their quarters so the queens will be in separate areas. But experts haven’t determined exactly what’s behind the surprisingly large nests.

Auburn University entomologists, who say they’ve never seen the nests so large, have been fielding calls about the huge nests from property owners from Dothan up to Sylacauga and over into west-central Alabama’s Black Belt.

One of the larger nests to have been discovered is one that has engulfed the interior of an abandoned 1955 Chevrolet.

It’s like the start of an awful B-Movie come to life in which animals act outside of their usual behaviour and become a threat to humans. Where’s Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?

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Photographing Squirrels

Photographing Squirrels

Real wild Squirrels with real vintage cameras.
No computer editing on any of the shots.

Bizarre but fantastic.


Barley Squirrel Lines Up A Shot
Originally uploaded by SQUIRREL400.

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Don’t download this song

“Weird Al” Yankovic amazingly catchy new tune about file-sharing is titled Don’t download this song

It doesn’t matter if you’re a grandma
Or a seven year old girl
They’ll treat you like the evil hard-bitten scum that you are.

See the video at Yahoo music or download the song. *wry smile*

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Peter Sellers: Man of accents

The ever-changing accent of Peter Sellers as he travels round London and the British Isles transitioning from one to another. [via]

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Bruce Schneier is computationally infeasible.

Things you might not know about Bruce Schneier

Via Mr Schneier himself.

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England 4-0 Greece

England have made a fine start under new boss Steve McClaren with a comfortable win over Greece by four goals to nil.

The Chelsea player John Terry made an auspicious start to his tenure as England captain by scoring the opening goal.

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Police given extra time to question ‘bomb plot’ suspects

BBC News reports that the police investigating an alleged bomb plot targeting UK to US flights have been given extra time to question 23 of the suspects.

The time police can hold 23 of the 24 suspects expired on Wednesday and a district judge had to decide whether to grant detectives an extension.

Warrants given to the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch allow them to question 21 people until 23 August.

Another two of those held can be detained until 21 August.

The maximum period that someone suspected of terrorist activity can be held without charge is now 28 days following the extension in the 2006 Terrorism Act.

This is the extension that the Home Office said was vital to the security of the country and it’s ability to counter the threat posed by international terrorism. The extension that was actually a compromise between the former period of 14 days and the 90 day period that the Home Office and police wanted.

Curiously the 28 days detention without charge part of the 2006 Terrorism Act was not commenced when the rest of the act was in April but was actually only commenced as of July 25th 2006.

Odd that the extension to the detention without charge period that was so vital to our security that the powers weren’t given to the police until just a few weeks ago.