You’ve heard of the various sex scandals involving the Catholic Church, which have strangely been allowed to receive mass media coverage over the last few months – despite this having been common knowledge for decades.
Rather than go into the far more important question of ‘who gave the green light to the media to begin systematically reducing the public credibility of a mainstream Church’ – take a look instead, at this article about a priest and his online Wrestling Site.
Now you’ve read the bare basics, stare in amazement at some of the highly suspicious photographs from the site, grabbed by the ever vigilant Smoking Gun, before it was closed down. Go look at No Holds Barred in Priest Video’s.
So you’ve made a bizarre and allegedly tasteful site featuring Down’s Syndrome Dolls, (featured here a couple of weeks back) – do you rest on your laurels – or do you come up with something equally as tasteful and useful? Take a look at what happens when good intentions go weird – and attempt to create an ‘anatomically correct’ teddy bear, to help children get over fears of surgery. Teddy Bears.
There’s an interesting article on the history of using sound as a weapon, at the always odd and readable Fortean Times, go read up on Sonic Doom.
A Lt Colonel in the US Air Force has been removed from his post for stating that President Bush was ‘a joke’ and the Sep 11 attacks were allowed to happen, because “he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was going nowhere..” Read the story you probably won’t see on CNN, at Monterey Herald.
And staying with the ‘meet the new America’ theme, the US National Security Agency has launched a series of information posters, aimed at the Armed Forces, and very reminiscent of old WW2-type posters. Go stare thoughtfully at Loose Lips Can Sink Ships, again.
Then for a slightly more paranoid (but still quite plausible) view of what is happening in America now, consider the photo’s and evidence on display at The Sign Conspiracy.
The E-Bay ‘find strange things you can sell online’ craze continues, and a young woman decided to sell her soul online. Bidding got up to over $40 000, before E-Bay removed the page- here’s the link to the now dead page. (If anyone wants to buy MY soul, I’m really open to all offers) The Defunct Soul-For-Sale page.
And speaking of interesting theories and superstitions, for all your weeping statues and other weirdness which followers of religion, believe indicate proof of something beyond this realm – amble towards The Miracles Page.
So if you’re trapped in a timewarp and the Eighties, back in the time when music didn’t sound like mass produced corporate crap – try some downloadable ringtones (for Nokia) from a group that made vegetarianism fashionable to a whole generation. Morrissey and The Smiths ringtones!
Unwanted spam continues flooding everyone’s mailboxes, although I’ve started pushing at Mweb to block spammer IP’s, on behalf of everyone who’s gatvol of more than 60% incoming mail being rubbish adverts (yes Steve at Mweb, this is free publicity for you and the other amazing folks at Mweb Abuse Department, so that you’ll continue blocking the IP’s of spammers!)
Point being – the European Parliament has elected to ban spam, coming into effect next year some time, which should eliminate some of the European-based spam at least. Read the far too short article at EU Bans Spam.
And try this article dealing with spam and online identity theft, called Anarchy.Com.
Okay it’s finally dawned on you that Madam and Eve both sucks AND blows at the same time, and you need a wider range of comics to keep your brain alive, why not start your journey towards toon-heaven at Comics Online!
After 150 years of lampooning and laughing at the establishment, Punch magazine is calling it quits. Start off at the press release then dip into the latest column (The Thoughts of Chairman Mo), written by Punch owner Mohamed al Fayed – Chairman Mo and try Punch Main Page.
And finally, for a large collection of strange and interesting adverts, showing the longstanding links between medicine and advertising – settle in for much oddness, at Medicine and Madison Avenue.
Until the next time, if wrestlers and priests don’t get me.
Ian Fraser is a playwright, author, comedian, conspiracy nut, old-time radio collector and self-confessed data-junkie. Winner of numerous Vita and Amstel Awards, he’s been an Internet addict and games-fanatic since around 1995, when the Internet began to make much more sense than theatre.