Readers will recall my continual references to the ongoing serial killing of microbiologists, suggesting that whoever actually runs things is setting the stage for some kind of new disease – and making sure that the most qualified people in the world to stop it are being systematically killed. Point being, another microbiologist has been killed. Read this news report about a strange “hit and run” accident. Another Dead Microbiologist.
Alternatively, you could just focus on something like Spikey Bras.
Then just to show you how back to front the world has become, if I were to say that the US military are killing wounded soldiers, you’d deny it, wouldn’t you? After all, it doesn’t fit with your media-created worldview. Well, take a look at (and download) the short clip from CNN showing US troops killing a wounded Iraqi soldier in cold blood. US Troops Execute Wounded.
Or to sidetrack into the odd but interesting world of cross-dressing and latex (yeah, I thought this might get your attention), go browse through the various creations available at Female Latex Masks.
Did you hear about the large scale terrorist group operating in the US, which had bombs, weaponry and unknown plans to attack various targets? Odds are good you didn’t – because the group happens to be a rightwing American terror-group. Read about the homegrown terrorists which the US and world media have strangely ignored – at US Terrorist Group Uncovered.
But things are getting stranger and darker in Bush’s America while the world applauded at Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld’s one-time business partner Saddam Hussein now supposedly ‘captured’. More repressive laws got quietly passed. Take a read of Patriot Act II sneaked in as Saddam captured.
I love it when things go wrong and vast amounts of money get wasted (it’s the anarchist in me walking to a different drummer than to the rest of you). It’s no problem, and provides me with a lot of laughs. For instance, take a look at this report recently by a British company who began marketing a new sauce, but unfortunately they named it using the Punjabi word for ‘arse’. Read Blooper proves bum deal.
And just to show you that it takes a certain kind of moron to be in marketing, browse through the horrifying silly screwups marketers have made translating their products and slogans into other languages at Marketing Translation Atrocities.
Back to the changing face of America … The US Secret Service seem to be airbrushing details out of aerial photographs of Washington – why? Apparently to thwart terrorists but, probably in reality, they’re doing it because ‘they can’. Read Secret Service Airbrushing Photographs.
Film geeks are a tribe unto themselves — the oddest things become the centre of focus on occasion. Take the case of a bunch of people who pay attention to ‘skin’ in cinema. No, I don’t mean the slang for porno, but genuine ‘skin’. So combine a weird focus for all things dermatological with movies, and you end up with Skin In Cinema.
And you might be curious as to what a site for people with a similar focus on toilets might look like. take some reading matter and look out for interesting graffitti at World Toilet.
Maybe you’ll agree with me that one of the most ugly things that’s ever been vomited forth into the public eye was the local calender featuring semi-naked ‘celebrities’. Supposedly all performed for the benefit of one or another charity, in reality it’s just a cold marketing ploy for a not particularly significant film. Which in turn then ‘justified’ the parading of purulent sagging flesh by egotistical fame-hungry locals. That said, for deliberately ludicrous and horrid ugliness, take a look at The Unofficial House of Commons Calender.
Something very cool that doesn’t quite fit into the world as we know it … Staff at a castle in the UK, which at one time belonged to Henry VIII, kept getting alarms going off at a door being opened, with no one in the area. So they focused a video camera on the door. Read the report and look at the picture of a Ghost Captured On Security Camera Video.
Of course, we’re now in the media-created false frenzy known as Christmas, where you’re supposed to be thankful for various things (none of which you have), purchase large quantities of goods (on credit), lie to children about the existence of a gift-dispensing creature whose appearence apparently comes from a Coca Cola advert, and supposedly be really happy. Is it me or does all of the above need a major reality check on the part of humans? It’s a Christian take on the Santa origin, but informative nonetheless. Take a look at The Origins of Santa.
Alternatively, for something profound, why not just have a traditional old fashioned Star Trek wedding? Take a look at what one enterprising Las Vegas hotel offers the Trekkies – at Star Trek Weddings.
I stumbled across a blast from the past recently. I found a page detailing the ever-changing fortunes of a local guy who wanted to keep a band going. For a small glimpse into the world of the Eighties and the culture as it existed then, do yourself a favor and do some reading at Music Photographs of a South African Garage Band Whore.
And in other news, you thought it was bright this morning? Well you’re wrong. According to scientists, the world is now around 20% darker than what it was for our ancestors, thanks to pollution. Read the report at Darker Earth.
Tobacco companies are always good as an easy target, as they’ve systematically used the addictive qualities of nicotine to ensure their product gets used as widely as possible, for as long as possible. (And yes, I’m a smoker, but before you sneer, that car you drive puts out more particulate matter in an hour than I have in decades of smoking. And by the way, as I don’t eat meat, do drugs or alcohol. So when you’ve done the same and bought a bicycle, I’ll pay attention to your fascist urges to control my health). Let me pause to cough – ahem – now I’ll continue. Read this news report about ‘grab them while they’re young’ tobacco company documents which have emerged, at Tobacco Targets Youth.
And for a huge collection of info and documents which could help your lawyer make local cigarette companies pay you lots of money in court cases, go to The Tobacco Papers.
Until the next time, if ugly naked celebrities don’t get me.