After going to Fraz’ new night at Red, me and PaulKeith went for a wander round the rainy, lovely Derby streets.
Everywhere was film-set rainy and wonderfully deserted. I think Derby looks gorgeous at night. The best time is between 4 and 5am but that’s getting pretty light now so I’m glad I managed to get [...]
Archive for June, 2006
A candidate seeking the Republican nomination for a Congressional seat in Utah has blamed the devil for problems with his campaign.
John Jacob, a businessman aiming to oust Republican incumbent Chris Cannon in a party primary this week, told The Salt Lake Tribune that since he had decided to try for Congress, the devil had disrupted [...]
The inquiry into the murder of Asian teenager Zahid Mubarek by a racist cell-mate will this week name at least two officials who have since been promoted and highlight a ‘lack of accountability’ over the killing, The Observer can reveal. Sources who have seen the report by Mr Justice Keith said it goes into detail [...]
(WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN X-MEN3 OR ULTRAVIOLET!)
I’ve just been to the cinema to see Ultraviolet.
And I want my money back.
It pains me to type that. I try to keep negative reviews off Bzangy because there are far too many blogs that are moanathons. It’s lazily easy to [...]
Physicists in Japan have made a device that can detect individual electrons that are flowing either forwards or backwards. The device — the most sensitive ammeter to date — allows currents to be measured in the attoampere range for the first time. Dubbed a bi-directional single-electron ammeter, the device could be used for a wide [...]
The BBC’s flagship pop music programme Top of the Pops has been cancelled after 42 years, the BBC has announced.
“The time has come to bring the show to its natural conclusion,” said the BBC’s director of television Jana Bennett.
In a statement, the BBC said the weekly programme could no longer compete with 24-hour music channels.
Top [...]
A leaked cable from the US embassy in Baghdad signed by the ambassador paints a grim picture of Iraq as a country disintegrating in which the real rulers are the militias, and the central government counts for nothing.
The cable, signed by the US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and sent to the State Department in Washington on [...]
Click the piccy above to see three pics of wet stones I took today.
A major drug company is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market.
(Source: The Guardian)
The myth of the free market is that it is the most efficient economic system. People’s needs and desires become [...]
Yeah
Ahhh, I’m sooo knackered now. Danced far too much tonight. My poor little tootsies!
Click the pic above for the gallery!