Archive for July, 2006

And by ‘unsubstantiated’ we literally mean that there is no substance there. Really.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 31st, 2006

There’s much less to the UK’s recent terror trials than the prosecution cares to admit. From the fictitious “red mercury” to the non-existent ricin behind the “ricin plot” of a couple of years ago, it seems that anti-terror busts in the UK are just as, well, “substantial” as the ones held in the US.

Nowadays the trains just zoom through ‘em.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 31st, 2006

Disused stations of the London Underground. Which, as we all know from “A fish called Wanda”, is not a terrorist organization.

The “no such thing as bad publicity” dynamic might be at play here.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 29th, 2006

The Conservative Party of Canada is under fire for its (non-) position on the war in Lebanon, so what’s a party to do? Ask their contributors to send in more money, of course!

And you thought North American political campaigns were nasty.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 28th, 2006

Congo politicians denies charges of cannibalism. He also promises to devour defeat political opponents at the polls.

This has to be the biggest collection of Darwin Award candidate photos yet!

Posted in Uncategorized on July 27th, 2006

The US Naval Safety Center’s safety photo collection. You have got to check these out… and wonder how some of the dumbasses in these pictures actually survived, perhaps to breed incredible stupidity into a whole new generation of humans.

I don’t have a joke for this, frankly.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 27th, 2006

Here’s a graphical representation of the body count for the current conflict in the Lebanon. Hopefully this will stop before they run out of people to kill.

Someone clogged his inbox.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 26th, 2006

A Russian spammer gets his due. Maybe I should send a link to this story to people who send me spam.

Map to the famous “crossroads” not included.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 26th, 2006

Legendary blues-man Robert Johnson’s guitar is up for sale. The only catch is the price — a cool $6 million US.

Sure, if “neutral” means “openly one-sided”.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 24th, 2006

MacKay: Canada has not abandoned its traditional role as a mediator and neutral voice in foreign affairs. He also stated that PM Harper has taken “a very independent sovereign decision” to completely agree with whatever George Bush said.

Still, the service is, er, “highly personalized”.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 24th, 2006

Air Torture. No fares, no paperwork, no one’s any the wiser.