This week it’s mostly assorted useful sites – although the usefulness factor for some of them does possible depend on how much of an anarchist you are. But to kickstart the concept, let’s look at that computer of yours. (And this is one of the few ‘real’ useful sites that you actually should take time to work through.)
I hate to use a quote from a self righteous pretentious prat like Bono but there’s that classic moment from U2’s Zoo Tour of a few years back where he stands up and in the persona of an evangelical huckster and yells "I have a vision! I have a vision! Television!"
You may not know this, but the internet has advanced a lot from the days when I first stumbled onto it. Back then, the novelty factor was big websites –and websites with a coffee cam (or any kind of cam) were big crowd pullers.
It’s rather interesting that for a supposedly non-racial society, every time anyone complains about anything, this government raises the issue of race. No matter what the problem is, this ‘non-racial’ government makes a point of bringing in racial identity either as an excuse for why the problem exists, or uses the race of the complainer as a way of attacking the critic.
Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned embarrassment? Where today is that wicked pang that kept generations of slobbery emotions in check and prevented stupid people from doing stupid things in public?
Toumai — or a rare greyish cast of his priceless cranium — flew a couple of thousand kilometres from the Sahara last month to visit his distant cousin Little Foot in South Africa.
The past few months have seen a sharp escalation of tension in relations between Cuba and the United States. But unlike in the past, this time the European Union has jumped firmly on the anti-Havana bandwagon. While the situation has yet to reach crisis point, it is certainly serious.
Corporate United States bowed to the growing power of the gay rights movement last week when the country’s largest private employer banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The failure by Zimbabweans to rise up and deliver the final blow to President Robert Mugabe’s illegitimate regime has been a cause of disappointment and soul-searching for many people.
England captain Michael Vaughan downplayed his match-winning 83 against South Africa at Edgbaston in the triangular series day/night one-day international in Birmingham on Tuesday.