I decided today that this Saturday night was going to be different, and I definately made that happen. Ditching the usual clubbing group of international people, myself and two Slovenians armed ourselves with cameras and made a midnight pilgrimage to the Glasgow Necropolis. We had to scale a couple walls and jump a few fences, cut through a ( Read more... )

In an unlikely scenario, I have become a varsity athlete. I saw an ad for the men's hockey team and had to check it out. Turns out the only hockey played here is field hockey, which apparently is a gender-equal sport here. Despite weird little sticks and various rule changes, I made the team and went to a tournament yesterday. There's an insane ( Read more... )

I stayed up late last night having a debate about China with Jet. It was interesting what he knew, and what he didn't know. He had no idea that the Chinese government routinely seals off rural areas during uprises, and keeps out reporters. I had to prove it to him with multiple news reports. He'd also never seen the classic "student standing in ( Read more... )

Okay, I've been putting this off for about a week. I didn't have internet before that, but the truth is I've been dreading trying to sum up 3 weeks on a midget-keyboard. Also, I've been vainly hoping that I'd get my camera and laptop working together, but sadly they're still incompatible. So no pictures for now ( Read more... )

Here's a rather depressing story about unexploded cluster bombs shredding Lebanese children. They collect scrap metal for food money, you see. The article is complimented rather nicely by this picture of Israeli children signing bombs before they were dropped on Lebanon.


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It seems that two months before invading Iraq, Bush was unaware there are 2 branches of Islam. So you can guess how well he's able to understand the civil war brewing now.

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“Three years ago, there were fewer than 500 foreign fighters in Iraq. They were called ‘dead enders.’ Then there were 5,000, and they were called ‘terrorists.’ Now there are 20,000, and the administration calls this ‘sectarian violence ( Read more... )

It's good to see the U.S. keeping such an even hand in the Middle East. Sure, they just rushed a shipment of bombs to Israel. But arabs don't have to feel like they're being picked on, since Bush just sold $6 billion of weapons to Saudi Arabia. Nothing promotes stability in the region like making a massive profit arming two fundamentalist ( Read more... )

This song is on the Godzilla soundtrack, but not on any Rage Against the Machine albums, so it must have been made specifically for the movie. I have to pity the stuffed-suit that thought they'd be a good band to tap for a Hollywood blockbuster soundtrack. The response is perfect though, a song about brainwashing cinema. I can picture the ( Read more... )