Evidently, my birthday has come early this year. This is a bit strange; at this time of year, it's meant to be Kate's birthday (well, tomorrow), with mine just over a week away on the 17th. But now was the opportune time for my mother to purchase my birthday present and give it to me, so she did. I am now the very proud owner of a snazzy 320GB ( Read more... )

Random political poll! Just because I feel like it ( Read more... )

Sometimes I do things that, once I'm done, cause me to stop for a minute and think "André, did you really just do that?" Today, I did one of those things. After the setlist of today's U2 concert became known, I was inspired to make a thread on Interference off memory (with U2-Vertigo-Tour.com open for cross-checking). This was not some fanladish ( Read more... )

This is the BEST THING EVER. Well, maybe not quite, but it's still incredibly addictive. Have a wild guess what I've been doing all evening.

No, seriously.

Poll

Despite the serious background information I'm about to present, here's a great quote. In 1985, New Zealand's Prime Minister David Lange established the nation as nuclear-free; the USA was quite unhappy with this, and when it could not force its own way, it rather immaturely suspended its ANZUS Treaty obligations to New Zealand. Now, during Lange ( Read more... )