Bring those old COBRA jet-gliders one step closer to reality. Ha, those Swiss. :-)

EDIT: A good deal more interesting than the other Swiss specimen of the week.

EDIT2: Conceptually, this FusionMan is roughly similar to the ol' Flying Titan Power Armor of the original Rifts RPG. Certainly more aerodynamically likely than other Rifts ideas or Tony ( Read more... )

Accidentally stumbled upon Swiss military propaganda.

Figure 1: PanzerGrenadiers
Figure 2: Ludicrously inefficient bilingual (trilingual?) operations.
Figure 3: Actually, pretty nifty quick-upper story entrances.
Figure 4: a consolation, the kids know the whole thing's a joke. EDIT: Relatively filthy narration, incidentally, but that's not really ( Read more... )

About 78,000 bottles sold a year, for one small Swiss village ( Read more... )

1. The Swiss open their new Loetschberg Tunnel. Zurich to Milano in 2.5 hours, not bad. If the main motivation is freight transport, I wonder if they will put all that many passenger services on the route.

2. Dennis Miller crawls from underneath some rock. I thought he died in some O.D. car-crash years ago. Guess not. Oh well, more's the pity - I ( Read more... )

Bizarrely, there seems to be a gay-militancy theme afoot.

1. Polish suspicions of Tinky Winky

2. Ban on heterosexuals in that Australian bar ( Read more... )

1. To the US Senate, all I can say is Bollazo! Bollazo!

2. In a reprise of (Wrath of) Khan's final moments, Castro spits in the eye of the Bush administration, arguing that biofuels initiatives threaten global starvation. On the whole, I think it's a slightly odd tack to take, since Cuba seems to have done alright by its own self-sufficiency ( Read more... )

On the new tunnel and Porta Alpina.

Funny thought: with all the tunnels, and the CERN mega-project, and now this one, one might just say Switzerland has become as holey as, well, "Swiss cheese." ;-p

1. Beebs reports on another Wikipedia controversy - really, you'd almost think the Beebs was running a hit job for the Encyclopedia Britannica people. ;-)

2. Changes to the UK in the last 10 years - Oh Happiness! Squeezable Marmite (Check last 75%)! Mmmmmm! :-) But what's this about all Britons wanting to move to Australian now?

3. No morning ( Read more... )

1. More unchecked Swiss aggression ;-) - still, it does provoke an interesting thought. If one can successfully invade a country with a mere 171 men, how many more would it really take to fully subjugate it? ;-)

2. China's human parts just-in-time misdelivery ... technically, UPS's fault.

3. Regarding the Walter Reed scandal, Bush is 'troubled'4 ( Read more... )

1. Kenya: suspected source of recent crime wave, Simon Matheri, found & shot dead - we'll see if this leads to anything useful. Too bad the 200 armed police failed to complete an arrest. It's particularly poor that the rest of the gang were not swept up in the same violent raid.

2. Globalisation: world auto manufacturing history

3. Tea: Britney ( Read more... )