DIE HERETIC!

An old classic…

SANG-FROID

WHY IS JAMES MURDOCH SO ANGRY?

Great podcast from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A must listen for anyone with an interest in general media issues. Listen and Download HERE. If this tangentially related cartoon is yours please email and I will credit or remove it. I found it years ago and liked it.

BUY NOTHING DAY VIDEO

I made a short and very unofficial video for Buy Nothing Day.

STRANGE IDEAS ABOUT “UNITED” – ONE

I have had an mp3 copy of an old audio book of the The Hobbit for a long time. I had never listened to it but one chapter of  it came on the random on my music player and I couldn’t help but notice that the goblins were all given Scottish accents. Intrigued, I skipped [...]

JUST A GRAPH

THE STRANGE LANGUAGE OF AVIATION

On the BBC site today there is a story that… [Now] hydrogen is being dropped again by the aviation industry. But this time the promised “green” fuel for powering flights of the future has been quietly shelved in favour of biofuels and more fossil fuel-sipping aviation. The word “dropped” implies that hydrogen fuel was being [...]

MAGGIE MAGGIE GET TAE F*CK

I have an article over at Bella Caledonia on the front page now. Thanks to The Celtic Wiki for the photo.  

AND ABSOLUTELY FINALLY

We are all familiar with the happy panda story at the end of the news. The one that starts with “And finally” before they go on to some semi-amusing story in orded to make you feel better. Well, this happy panda story ends a bit differently in the USA. Mountain lion trapped up tree by [...]

HOW TO MAKE ASTROLOGY INTERESTING

I recently watched a documentary that said ancient Chinese astrologers were often executed if they got it wrong. Can you see where I am going with this already? Clever you. Or maybe you can predict the future? Anyway, why not get a whole heap of them on to make their predictions and when they turn [...]