Tired -- should have been in bed three or four hours ago -- but I'm waiting for an album to finish downloading and so a cute new music meme from hieroglyphe and angeoverhere instead of legitimate content ( Read more... )

Simon Wiesenthal Dies at 96Simon Wiesenthal was a Holocaust survivor who dedicated most of his life to tirelessly tracking down Nazi war criminals and making sure they were prosecuted. He was the loudest voice there was to "never forget", to stop neo-Nazism and its offshoots from gaining any ground, to stop anti-Semitism and other forms of ( Read more... )

Back from BiCon on Monday. Still stratospherically happy minus being back in this godforsaken city from hell. Running 101F fever and therefore slightly delirious and not entirely capable of coherent communication although I'm going to try today, particularly in a couple of cases ( Read more... )

From hieroglyphe:

Cillit Bang remix

Cillit Bang[1] television advertising made into a pounding techno track and accompanying Flash video. Yes, that Cillit Bang.

And the dirt is gooooone.

[1]Which I insist on calling Clit Bang because I'm juvenile.

Today is the ninety-fourth anniversary of the passing of the Parliament Act 1911 receiving Royal Assent. The preamble of the act states “it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into ( Read more... )

Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer at age 67

I don't know what to say; hours after I heard of his passing, I'm still upset, depressed and dismayed. Peter Jennings was on my television anchoring World News Tonight every evening from the time I can first remember watching television until I became an expatriate. After I moved to the UK, his ( Read more... )

The anonymous Life Experience Survey is part of a research project being conducted by University of Southern California researcher and psychology professor Mitch Earleywine, Ph.D., author of the book Understanding Marijuana in collaboration with the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). Dr. Earlywine's study seeks to learn more about attitudes towards ( Read more... )

Robin Cook, the Scottish MP and former Cabinet minister, died shortly after collapsing suddenly last night whilst hillwalking with his wife in the Highlands ( Read more... )

Ben & Jerry's have always been one of my favourite ice cream companies. From the older original flavours such as Cookie Dough and Phish Food, the newer flavours Dublin Mudslide and Oatmeal Cookie Chunk to the sadly discontinued flavours From Russia With Buzz... and Karamel Sutra, Ben & Jerry's has been a socially-conscious taste sensation ( Read more... )

IRA says armed campaign is over; will pursue exclusively peaceful means

At least there is peace somewhere.