Smoke on the water – Japanese stylee

There is a version of We will rock you too….. Via BoingBoing metafilter.

Hillary under fire

Footage discovered that confirms Hillary Clinton’s claim of being under fire on a visit to Bosnia.

Orange Home Broadband unbelievably sucks

I’ve learnt at great expense in time and money that Orange Home Broadband is not to be touched with a bargepole. Not because of some glitch that was specific to my case: as Gid found with their mobile phone service, there’s something broken about the whole culture of the company.

Orange, once known for good customer service, has given up on its customers. It enthusiastically sends out marketing and sets up payments, but shows little interest in providing the products and services they’re advertising, and their inability to provide what they’ve been paid for is treated as the customer’s fault.

A couple of years ago, I had repeated mailings inviting me to renew my mobile phone contract at a much more expensive rate to get “free Broadband”. On the face of it, it was a worthwhile offer, but the crap I’ve had to put up with includes:

Anonymous philanthropist donates 200 human kidneys

When so much of the news is depressing, it’s nice to be able to share a positive story of someone helping others:

The Red Detatchment of Women

Spotted over at metafilter, The Red Detachment of Women is superb – Chinese ballerinas, with rifles….

Here is a little YouTube excerpt:

Newsnight on Scientology 1996

A report from Jeremy Vine over the 1996 controversy when the Church of Scientology was allowed to advertise on British television:

…featuring a much younger and less articulate me failing to explain Internet censorship.

The live studio discussion that follows is juicy viewing for when David Mellor MP calls Scientology president Heber Jentzsch “this deeply sinister person with a combination of soft blandishments and underlying threats”. Thanks to Steve for help getting this online!

99 words for boobs….

99 words for boobs on FunnyOrDie.com

Padded Lampposts

In an age of the Blackberry, the iPhone and ubiquitous wi-fi, what’s the next important technical innovation in mobile computing? Steve_Ri points us to this video found via Engadget.

TED Fest ’08

See that Martin Poulter, he keeps going on about the joys of TED, well I finally see what he means when I dropped by the Friends of Ted website. It caters for all your educational needs in the areas of the Craggy World Cup etc. Tip top stuff … and I couldn’t tempt you to a cup of tea could I?

… ah, g’wan!

Oh, do you think he meant this one instead? Or maybe BIL perhaps? Feck!