From thevirginqueen:

MI6 launches first website to recruit spies, linguists and administrative employees

The website for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) is here.

Unfortunately, their (and MI5's) nationality requirement -- having at least one parent who is a British national -- means this is not a career option for me. Sure, I know what I want to do ( Read more... )

It is the Jewish holiday of Sukkot from sunset 17 October 2005 to sunset 25 October 2005 (sunset 24 October for those in Israel). This is one of my top three favourite Jewish holidays[1]. It is a festival of pilgrimage where one is supposed to trek to Israel in order to commemorate the forty years Jews were wandering in the desert as well as a ( Read more... )

From aidan_skinner, cavalorn, octopusgrrl, softfruit, and quite likely others of you by now:

Captain Jack to reprise role in new series.

Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who) will be a thirteen-part series based in modern-day Cardiff Bay, written by the magnificent Russell T. Davies and shown on BBC3 post-watershed. It will air in summer 2006. Supposedly it will be The X-Files meets ( Read more... )

A little over a day late, since it was from sunset on Wednesday 12 October to sunset Thursday 13 October: Happy Yom Kippur, or to the Jews reading this, Good Yontif. On this High Holy Day, which is known as the Day of Atonement, the Book of Life is closed and sealed ( Read more... )

Seen and heard on today's Neighbours:

Connor: Everyone has their own little fetishes.
Toadie: I'm not talking about whips and scrubbing brushes here.

(!!!)

Has Neighbours gotten a new scriptwriter recently? There's been an unusual number of BDSM references as of late.

OMG, a Neighbours survey.

From giagia:

Who said American political satire was dead?

edit, 7:19pm: However, this is a particularly interesting form of modern political propaganda, no matter how much it may look like satire. I'm considering purchasing it, but I don't know if I should.

From the Liberator Songbook via softfruit:

Star-Spangled Missile
(Words: David Senior, Tune: Star-Spangled Banner)Oh say can you see, by the night's eerie glow ( Read more... )

L'shanah tovah. May you be inscribed in the Book of Life.

Hear the shofar sounding tekiah, shevarim, teruah, and tekiah gedolah. I was going to write the whole series of notes out but I can only recall the first fifteen or so from memory. Instead, you can hear two more shofars sounding out a series of notes here and hereFor all the goyim who ( Read more... )

I have a particular hate-on for mercenaries. I have a special hatred of Blackwater; what they do in Iraq, in Afghanistan, especially in Colombia and so many other countries.

But now they've been sent into New Orleans. Along with other choice paramilitaries such as DynCorp, Intercon, American Security Group, Blackhawk, Wackenhut (yes, of the rent ( Read more... )

Fascinating article from brigid:

Faith binds many on Sox: Evangelical Christians give sport a spiritual contextI get that some people have a gripe with the fact that there are a number of Evangelical Christians on the team -- a dozen, more than in any other Major League Baseball team. But I don't understand it. The mere fact that someone is an ( Read more... )