From the BBC: 1356 It's getting a bit personal now. Tony Lloyd, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, has described Mr Hoon as "Side-Show Bob", the disgruntled and embittered minor character from the Simpsons cartoon. Legen...wait for it...dary!!
Read More...Gordon Brown says that those who oppose the official view on global warming are 'flat earthers', believing in a very wrong idea. Think he got it a bit bass ackwards though, as a comment from infowars.com points out: Balgorg Reply: December 6th, 2009 at 1:46 pm The flat earthers were those who believed what their ruling elite told them, at the time it was the church. It was the silent minority that supported the spherical earth theory, and they did so at their own risk. So really the flat earthers are those who go with the warmists theory, so the oposite of what Brown suggests. So using Brown's terminology, it looks like those who accept the official line on global warming are the ones with their heads stuck in the sand...
Read More...Seems that Facebook is currently having issues - some people struggled on Monday, and it has been very slow for a few days - but right now for me, Firefox can't even contact the server. Some guy on MSNBC said that his account was temporarily offline...but it felt like his life had been paused. That's a little too reliant on Facebook, my friend. Get out and see some real life - have a go on Twitter, or preferably FriendFeed! ;-) Facebook d00ds are working to fix it...
Read More...There are several articles on the BBC News website right now, detailing the reasons for Usain Bolt's success. It's all down to the mechanics of how he runs, and his stride length, and.... No. No. It's not. It's just that HE CAN RUN FASTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE. EVER. Well done to you sir. An amazing achievement, to break record after record. And good luck for the future too. But let's stop over-analyzing it - he just RUNS REALLY FAST! That is all!
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