It’s funny that the world helped the ANC come to power and fight against an evil vicious fascist regime — and now the ANC are telling the world that the unfolding horrors in Zimbabwe, where people are facing exactly the same kind of tyranny, is an ‘internal matter’. That’s just sick and twisted, and the ANC are making South Africa a laughing stock worldwide because of it. Now guess which country is about to spend $200-million on an arms deal with China, for fighter aircraft and armoured vehicles? You guessed right. Read Zimbabwe and China arms deal.
And in case you missed it last week, Mugabe steals all land.
And staying with dogs briefly — and yes I’m referring to Zimbabwe’s ruler as an animal, even though its being disrespectful to dogs (someone has to point out when politics has degenerated to the point where animal-comparisons are necessary in order to describe incoherent swines) … Back to the dogs theme: a few more pictures have emerged from Iraq’s torture-prisons — either by accident, or design. Go stare at happy US soldiers and bleeding unhappy prisoners at New torture photos.
The paper trail for authorising torture continues to lead ever upwards towards the man in the White House. read Torture approved at highest level.
And to get a glimpse of Bush unlike any that the media lap dogs are trying to promote, take some time to read the rather disturbing article Has Bush gone over the edge?. Michael Moore, film maker and documentarian, has been drawn into the fight because of footage of abuse in his Fahrenheit 911 movie. Read Michael Moore keeps quiet.
Or alternatively, if you’d prefer a gear change, watch a stupid short movie of a cat headbanging in time to some heavy metal music, courtesy of a site out of Holland. Watch the happily stupid Metal Cat Movie
By now you’ve run across the ‘Am I cool or Not’ types of website, where folks post photographs of themselves for everyone on the internet to jeer or perv at, and make comments on. Well, this next site is the same kind of scenario, but it’s tattoos which are the focus here. Go have a look at the permanently marked folks and Rate Your Tattoo.
Stuff you can use: There’s nothing like goodies for free, isn’t there? Apart from more goodies for free, of course. Go browse and see what you can get your ‘trapped down at the bottom end of Africa fingers’ on at Free Stuff.
Then for a range of smallish games that you can download for free, that no one’s going to whine at you about pirating for, go see what you can grab at Free Game Zone.
So what do you do if you’re bored and idly curious about the democratic process and the effect of power on politicians? Do you grunt and go open another beer? Or do you pretend to be a 10-year-old and write your local politician, and ask them for their favourite joke (as part of a non-existent ‘school project’? Go see the results at The Senator Prank.
Alternatively, if you have an engineering-type mind, and a bit of bandwidth to spare, you could go make your own online but amazingly cool-looking ‘robot’ at Soda Constructor.
Time wasters R Us: If you want something that’s not office-friendly, and very short-lived in terms of its appeal, take a look at the dumb timewaster up at the appropriately named Hit By A Bus.
But a much better time-waster can be found via the good angry people at Get Annoyed. And don’t forget to browse through their list of Ways To Annoy Your Public Toilet Stallmates.
Look on the bright side: At least no one’s forcing you to look at Weird World Sex Laws.
And certainly, only a crazy person would be interested in a Flash based online chat site that uses penguins. Like for instance at Penguin Chat.
Being a vegetarian, I have to say that there’s nothing more boring than vegetarians — apart from meat eaters. (Hmm, reminds me of my life philosophy: ‘I only hate two things: ‘living things’ and ‘objects’). One of the fun things as a veggie is to try and catch out other vegetarians who thought they were avoiding animal products. Go browse through this list, then try and freak out and horrify the veggie in your life at Non-Vegetarian Ingredients.
And staying with food, look at this recent Pravda article about 20 Food Myths Dispelled. Then for reasons why I don’t have to worry as much as you do, read this news item Dog meat used in hot dogs.
Do you have friends or family overseas, and can’t afford to stay in touch, thanks to the obscenely overpriced mafia they call our ‘telephone monopoly’ — sorry, I mean ‘company’? Have a look at this little application which allows you free phone calls via the Internet. Go to Skype. Once upon a time there was a music group called Pop Will Eat Itself. And keeping that name in mind, what happens when you combine the films Pulp Fiction and The Phantom Menace? Correct — you end up with this next site. Go watch Pulp Menace:
Or maybe extreme makeovers are your thing and you’re unfortunate enough to want things cut off you, and yet fortunate enough to have the money to finance it. In which case, go browse through the operations on offer at Beauty Surgery.
You’ll recall my mention last week of Sentech’s dubious record with its customers of the MyWireless internet service. If you missed it, go sign up and participate in the ongoing warfare at the MyWireless Forum. But the point is, one of the forum members, who got so irritated at the bad service from Sentech that he started his own site (Sentech Sucks) was contacted by a huffing and puffing General Manager of marketing and communications from Sentech. Read the unfolding saga at I Was Contacted By Sentech Today.
Until the next time, if Robert ‘Woof’ Mugabe doesn’t get me.