Ok, sort of brave (or stupid) but ..for me one of  the interesting things about Polanksi is  how the whole story indicates the decline of the media ( Read more... )

I got lost in the Ikea shop at Richmond once. I went into one of the display bedrooms, then into what I thought was a large walk in cupboard. I ended up in a downstairs warehousing basement area, where there was computers, what I assumed was their network server room and a large disk with a ramp. I walked through it and I ended up ( Read more... )

Ok, well a slightly wierd thing to post. But surfing around Youtube I came across what I assumed were remote control WW2 model tanks ( Read more... )

Ok, odd post, but I was thinking about the battle of Beersheba, the great charge of the lighthorse, and possibly the last cavalry charge in modern warfare. (Yanni gave me a DVD of the "Lighthorseman" which was pretty cool, and it is depicted in it).

Anyways, the odd thing about the battle is that British and Australian troops had to attack this town ( Read more... )

Ok, this is a conondrum.

Livejournal is losing its market share to FB. Lots of my friends have left LJ and are now only posting on FB. This includes peeps that have been on LJ for years. Some are posting on both. Some (like me) post their longer entries on LJ, and their shorter ones on fb.

However, FB really doesn't allow for long diary entries. So ( Read more... )

We had a convo last week about deaths related to drugs, and then coincedentally Blind sublime posted about this as well, so thought I would go research it ( Read more... )

SJkasabi and I were just talking about Knighthoods, and how they were abolished in 2000. There were replaced with New Zealand orders, which apparently no one really understood or gave the same regard to.

Interestingly, New Zealand has just reinstated them, and gave out a number of them to deserving peoples who had done things in the last 8 years.

So ( Read more... )

heh heh Jamie Barra does some nice work - even for one of those heretical Canon users.

http://jaimeibarra.deviantart.com/


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Following on from mrsbrown 's comments about fav Sesame St, and my recent post on the completely plausible interpretation of the real meaning behind the song on "C is for Cookie" - I went to see if there were was a remixed version of it on Youtube.

At last count there are 7 remixed clips of C is for cookie on YouTube.

Click to view

1 industrial goth remix ( Read more... )

I loved Ali G on the telly, and Borat, but apparently the new Bruno movie is not so great.

I used to wonder how Americans couldn't work out it was a joke... and couldn't recognise Sasha Baron Cohen playing a character.
That is until I saw this exchange between people talking about a clip from the new Bruno movie on Youtube.

sunshinebabe192 (5 days ago ( Read more... )