Cyclists vs. Cars (to be honest it's more Hippies vs. Society)

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2007 - Video Result: ONE bike loss and TWO disabled pensioners severely verbally abused.

BONUS POINTS given to hippies for attacking with distressed kids.

OVERALL RESULT: BIKES LOOOOOOSE! Hippies end up looking like hysterical whiny teenagers.



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2008 - Video Result: TWO bike losses (with questionable foot crush) much threatening of death to car driver.

BONUS POINTS: To overacting hippie who sacrifices toes for the cause. Also bonus points to random car driver woman who asks question "What is this about?".... and fails to get answer.

OVERALL RESULT: TIE overaggressive driver fails to win by hit and run tactics and hippies once again end up looking like hysterical whiny teenagers.

David Duchovny... method actor

It has come to my attention that David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. The 48-year-old actor said he did so voluntarily, in a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein. He added: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."
Duchovny's publicist, Flo Grace, confirmed the report, which first appeared on the Web site People.com. She and Stein both declined further comment.

Oh for crying out loud, he was the presenter in the Red Shoe Diaries. A man can only be subjected to so much soft core porn before he breaks. With his recent stint in Californication perhaps it was inevitable.

But as a fellow family man I can only waggle my finger at you David and say, "Tsk,tsk!". That's the only thing I'm going to waggle though... you dirty minded sods.

Is it Very Cool or Extremely Stupid?

WARNING! The screaching burning rubber noise as the car powerslides is annoying!

I've been saying it for years.. Google maps... is pants!!

So, I've booked a holiday to Salou (in Spain) and I wanted to check out the hotel. I went to good old Google Maps and started looking but unfortunately the little helpful advice column down the left hand side kept pointing out random references to multiple locations. Out of 5 points that claimed to be Sol Costa Daurada Hotel, not one of them was pointing directly on top of the actual hotel. (The closest it got was the Hotel next door). But by squinting at the brochure and the satellite image I could figure out which hotel was mine by comparing the shape of the pool.

Turns out there are others who don't appreciate the Google Map.

"Corporate cartographers are demolishing thousands of years of history - not to mention Britain's remarkable geography - at a stroke by not including them on maps which millions of us now use every day."

Is this just another example of how Google is getting lazy and sloppy now it is a market leader?

We're racing for pinks!

Pffffft... we all know who's going to win.

(Hint: the one that can travel through time)

Oh, go on, have some FAT DOG pics....

UK (pet) fat map

Oh, with the sheer excitement of the recent publication of obesity figures in the UK, the newspapers and webnewsites have been talking about FAT MAPS. Unfortunately after 10mins of searching (yes, that’s about the limit of my research) I couldn’t find a decent FAT MAP that covered the whole of the UK in detail (maybe that’s too shocking an image?). Fear not, FAT MAP lovers… have an old (2007) map about our overweight pets!

Besides, I’m saddened by so many local newspapers trying to label their local towns/cities as FAT HOTSPOTS (as if that’s some kind of achievement). Also the Idea of a FAT HOTSPOT makes me think of sweat rash….. bleeeeughh.

Disarm the enemy with cuteness

He's a good man...

Taking the Mickey....

There was the time that Disney threatened to sue three Florida day-care centers for painting Disney figures on their walls. And this year, Disney did sue a home-based business for $1 million after a couple put on children's parties with ersatz Eeyore and Tigger costumes.

But when will they let go of Mickey Mouse?

Douglas Hedenkamp, a Georgetown University law student, examined copyright registration forms at the Library of Congress. He went to UCLA's archives and watched old shorts, noting the same cartoon title cards. He agreed: They revealed an excess of ambiguity.

Disney legal advisors were not amused. General Counsel Louis Meisinger wrote back that it would be "inconceivable that any modern court would find any confusion about the identity of the proprietor of Mickey Mouse cartoons."He even threatened Hedenkamp with legal action if the young scholar openly advanced such claims.

Oh yeah... finished that book a while back!

Sorry, I sort of let the whole thing slip my mind; probably because the ending was such a crushing disappointment. Yes it’s true, the last Dark Sun book ever was deemed non-cannon due the wild ending (no worse than the Prism Pentad’s). It was the last 4-5 chapters that fell on their face. I was nearing the end of the book and realised (with horror) that there wasn’t enough space left to continue the story of the Sorcerer king’s beginnings. I happily would have sacrificed the pointless sub-plots to learn more about Hammanu’s early Sorcerer King status…. But sadly that’s not likely to ever happen now.
I really wanted to know more about Yaramuke, Bodach and Waverly. So now it looks like I will have to use my own imagination to fill in the blanks (again). I might even post some of those ideas on here (although not sure if a blog is the right format?)
Anyway, loved the book… hated the ending.

Lightning strikes!

How lightning initially forms is still a matter of debate: Scientists have studied root causes ranging from atmospheric perturbations (wind, humidity, friction, and atmospheric pressure) to the impact of solar wind and accumulation of charged solar particles. Ice inside a cloud is thought to be a key element in lightning development, and may cause a forcible separation of positive and negative charges within the cloud, thus assisting in the formation of lightning.

For some reason, unknown to me, I have always been facinated by lightning. I don't get to see many lightning storms (1-2 a year) but when the opportunity arises I will always be captivated by them.

I know what I want for x-mas.

Kricfalusi said that he refined the "Director-Unit system" for The Ren and Stimpy Show.
Bill Wray said that he and Kricfalusi met to "sit around and discuss how really good cartoons died in 1961." Kricfalusi and Wray attributed the decline to the rise of parent groups asking for cartoons to take "educational" approaches. He added that the creators of Ren and Stimpy did not want to create an "educational" series and that the stance bothered Nickelodeon.
Wray added that the creators did not try to "be contemporary" regarding jokes.
Kricfalusi said that when he "got to do everything my way on Ren and Stimpy" the group "eventually" created storyboards with larger panels in order to allow for introduction of continuity and new ideas, alteration of the sequences of the stories, and to "sculpt the stories into shape" via input from "other good story artists" and feedback from pitch meetings.
Kricfalusi said that he created commercials for nonexistent products because the Federal Communications Commission would not allow for him to place real commercials in the series. (However, the FCC has no jurisdiction over cable channels such as Nickelodeon; he may have meant the channel's internal Standards & Practices department.)