Read this…
…then read this.
Oh how sweet and utterly deserved. As they would say in the on-line gaming world: owned!
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Whilst in Zürich on business, I was puzzled to see large teddy bears everywhere on almost every street corner in the centre of town and a veritable platoon of them in the Bahnhoff … there seems to be literally hundreds of them scattered around the city. It is certainly interesting but I have no idea why they are there. Does anyone know? 
Interesting but… a bit perplexing Who says the Swiss have no sence of humour? May 26th, 2005 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Story here that says that far from being a bad thing, sitting outside in the sun for at least 15 minutes a day is good for you, latest medical findings suggest. It certainly is a bit of a change from the period, I well recall, in the 1990s, when it appeared to be the case that any exposure to sun was fraught with danger as a result of the supposed hole in the ozone layer. I recall the constant worries, fuelled in the press and elsewhere, about skin cancer and the dangers of overdoing the sunshine. Sometimes you have to just laugh. Of course being exposed to the sun is good for you in moderation! Mankind was not meant to sit indoors or conceal every aspect of the body all the time. Anyone I know who spends the vast majority of his or her time indoors looks, well, unwell, in my opinion. I always make the effort to break out of my office at lunchtime to get what passes for sunshine in this damp country of ours. It is not rocket science. Coming next: medical experts reveal that regular exercise, eating vegetables and playing sports can do you some good. May 23rd, 2005 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
An assortment of cool web stuff* encountered in recent days: Most excellent puppeteering in General Electric’s Facing That Void. Fun CG animation ride. (warning:contains computer simulated amphibian genitalia) I can’t remember a purer shot of joy than this Kokonono promo. *Don’t even waste your time over a dial-up – this is all broadband stuff. Thanks to our rather disturbed friends at Screenhead, BTW. May 14th, 2005 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
In some parts of the world, non-performance is a serious matter:
If this poor guy’s self esteem low to begin with, it must be hurtling down through the earth’s crust by now. May 12th, 2005 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
The indefatigible Radley Balko has a nice roundup of latest regulatory nuttiness from across the world, including my personal favourite, a rule in Italy stating that dog-owners must walk their furry friends at least three times a day. Tremendous stuff, the sort of law that would make the land of Julius Ceasar and Enzo Ferrari proud. Joking aside at this lunacy, we are surely far beyond the point at which it is possible to subject this sort of regulatory mania to Monty Python-style satire. How on earth can one excite the anger of people against this sort of thing when it appears that the humourless berks who want to pass these rules feel no shame, no sense that they are infantilising the public? May 4th, 2005 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
For those of you not able to drag your attention from our fascinating British national poll (okay, I’ll turn the snark button off now) there is always the European Union to keep us all amused. It emerges that the EU Commission has gotten a bit red-faced after it emerged that two saunas were installed in the new Brussels HQ out of consideration for its Scandanavian staff. This seems a bit mean. It must be nice to unwind and loosen those muscle pains after a hard day churning out interminable directives and figuring out new ways to shaft Chinese textile exporters. In fact, I would like to make a modest proposal: perhaps all such officials could spend a lot more time in saunas, not to mention theatres, cinemas, restaurants, nightclubs, race courses and football grounds. In fact, anywhere but their own offices. April 27th, 2005 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
This BBC story could have come straight out of a comic novel:
However it turned out not to be a crime:
I actually believe them. They were able to bustle about and investigate, but it turned out they had no actual criminals to deal with, so no horrid fighting and no horrid paperwork. Instead, they had a nice little story to trade with their local media. As for the idea of people in Australia looking at pictures from our spycams, it has often puzzled me who on earth is supposed to keep track of all our spycam pictures, what with there now being about ten times as many spycams in Britain as there are people. I seem to recall that in this Libertarian Alliance publication, in the bit where I discuss how to exploit old people and thus keep them feeling important for longer, I suggest that oldies might like to do this. Let them earn their pensions. And now that we all have broadband connections, there is no need for these oldies to be in Britain. In fact, given what our criminals like to do to witnesses who grass them up, Australia is probably the ideal spot for them. March 30th, 2005 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Personally, I have long wanted a CPU socket and PCI bus built directly into my cranium, but it has not been possible until now. Already, though, I am getting upgrade envy. It really needs to be Socket 939 and PCI Express. (seen in a Chinese electronics market on March 20, 2005) March 23rd, 2005 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
From the box of crackers I had for breakfast this morning:
Yep, Perry and I are definitely not in Kansas (or London) anymore. We even bought some Tom’s of Maine all natural, organic toothpaste yesterday. But the weather is so much better here in LA than in London, we can tolerate the tree-hugging hippy crap…For now. March 6th, 2005 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
I am very disappointed by the options given in this online slashdot poll. Where is the “Built from vast numbers of Nescafe jars” option? February 24th, 2005 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
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