Category Archives: world

Desperate times for the North Koreans

.. the chance of them having to face Justin Bieber are somehow above zero.
The caption attached to Kim Jong-il is brilliant:

Bet he is.

Election Losers

Congratulations to Godfrey Spickernell for getting 17 votes for the Blue Environment Party in Chelsea & Fulham — as far as I can see, the lowest total in the country.
I was a little disappointed nobody matched the heroic efforts of Catherine Taylor-Dawson, of the Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket Party, who managed to get [...]

Debate Throes

Charlie Brooker on the final leaders’ debate:
According to some polls, Cameron won, or at the very least tied with Clegg. Which is odd, because to my biased eyes, he looked hilariously worried whenever the others were talking. He often wore a face like the Fat Controller trying to wee through a Hula Hoop without splashing [...]

Terrorists About!

The Metropolitan police are publicising a new campaign:
Thousands of people take photos every day. What if one of them seems odd?
Do you think that person is committing a crime? They probably are, most people are terrorists. Do you think ‘what a loony’? Do you sigh at the strange habits of foreigners? [...]

A Day in the Life

Eleven hours in the labs and we’re not even in the last fornight :\
I made my Last.fm charts program available for anybody to use and it’s had a positive response, hurrah, though people are far too reluctant to give feedback. It’s good to know there’s others out there who like to investigate every inch [...]

(Almost) Eurovision time again

Great selection of lyrics at the BBC:

Oh, don’t call me funny bunny
I’ll blow your money, money
I’ll get you to my bad ass spinning for you.
Gotta tease you nasty guy
So take it don’t be shy
Put your cherry on my cake
And taste my cherry pie.

Sounds hot?
This is the Ukrainian entrant:

Righto.
PS. Seems to have become a BBC [...]

So Break Me

Some fascinating pictures of foot binding on Yahoo at the moment, in particular this one. Toes by heels underneath your feet 0_o Great piece about it all here.
Iain Paisley sat next to Sinn Fein what the hell is going on? Not fully side by side though, let’s not get too carried away [...]