Dead insects and secret chimps
Last night I was sitting here thinking that I should probably empty all the dead insects out of the light shade in the lounge. The problem with these new-fangled long-life low-wattage bulbs is that you don't get to remove the shade as often as you would with normal bulbs, and thus the dead insect collection becomes massive long before the bulb wears out.
I was surprised to receive an email from Avaaz recently with the title : Nuclear weapons: the only solution. You see, Avaaz are this liberal action group, and while I would fully expect to receive such an email from "Christians Wanting To Hasten The Rapture" or from a science fiction mailing list when discussing aggressive alien planetary infestations, I was intrigued to see what Avaaz would think that nuclear weapons were the only solution for. Solving the water problem in Saharan Africa perhaps?
But no, unfortunately I was disappointed. It was yet another call for "elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide". It's depressing that otherwise smart people still believe that it's possible to put the genie back in the bottle.
There have been a number of things I have run into on the web recently that I want to record as being memorable.
I would have been more excited about FilthyGorgeousThings based on it's premier issue had it not turned out to be a teaser for a horrendously expensive monthly webziine. $19 a month ? Come on! Still it's got some good writing and some nice arty erotica, and is pretty styley for porn.
There are these visualizations based on Twitter from Mashable. I especialy like the "Just landed.." one. Then there are these pics of the Aurora Borealis from space.
And there's Paul & Storm. How can a website subttled "Music, Comedy, Occassional Nuns & Pirates" be anything but a lot of fun? I especially like The Captain's Wife's Lament, here's a couple of verses to whet your appettite, as it were
There’s seamen here in front of me
And seamen in the rear
My God-there’s even seamen
Hanging from the chandelier
There’s seamen on the windowsill
And seamen in the yard
The seamen even left a stain
Upon the Saint Bernard
Although I am a patient wife
‘Tis more than I can bear
To wake up in the morning
With your seamen in my hair
And just in via @violetblue, using sex for adverising education
Now onto cleaning the house.
I was surprised to receive an email from Avaaz recently with the title : Nuclear weapons: the only solution. You see, Avaaz are this liberal action group, and while I would fully expect to receive such an email from "Christians Wanting To Hasten The Rapture" or from a science fiction mailing list when discussing aggressive alien planetary infestations, I was intrigued to see what Avaaz would think that nuclear weapons were the only solution for. Solving the water problem in Saharan Africa perhaps?
But no, unfortunately I was disappointed. It was yet another call for "elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide". It's depressing that otherwise smart people still believe that it's possible to put the genie back in the bottle.
There have been a number of things I have run into on the web recently that I want to record as being memorable.
I would have been more excited about FilthyGorgeousThings based on it's premier issue had it not turned out to be a teaser for a horrendously expensive monthly webziine. $19 a month ? Come on! Still it's got some good writing and some nice arty erotica, and is pretty styley for porn.
There are these visualizations based on Twitter from Mashable. I especialy like the "Just landed.." one. Then there are these pics of the Aurora Borealis from space.
And there's Paul & Storm. How can a website subttled "Music, Comedy, Occassional Nuns & Pirates" be anything but a lot of fun? I especially like The Captain's Wife's Lament, here's a couple of verses to whet your appettite, as it were
There’s seamen here in front of me
And seamen in the rear
My God-there’s even seamen
Hanging from the chandelier
There’s seamen on the windowsill
And seamen in the yard
The seamen even left a stain
Upon the Saint Bernard
Although I am a patient wife
‘Tis more than I can bear
To wake up in the morning
With your seamen in my hair
And just in via @violetblue, using sex for adverising education
Now onto cleaning the house.