Strangely Perfect

The Next Dalai Lama Rejects Buddhism and Hero Worship, that is! Way back in 1986, the next Dalai Lama, a little Spanish boy, was chosen.  Apparently, Osel Hita Torres can’t take it, a life deprived of television, movies (save one), football and girls. He’s now a film student in Madrid. He rejects all that his status [...]

New Search Engine Last night I had a few hits from something called Bing but paid no attention  to them.  It turns out that it’s the new Microsoft search engine (see Guardian article here, guardian.co.uk…searchengines-microsoft), not just a revamped Live Search, apparently.  In this article, much play is made on what ‘Bing’ actually means, quoting [...]

Aren’t These THE Most Fantastic Pictures? The BBC has picked up today (why today? I dunno!) on some photos from the Cloud Appreciation Society.  They are suggesting a new class of cloud to be called Asperatus, on top of the Cumulus, Cirrus etc that we already have. Might I suggest ‘Fantasticus’ as these are some [...]

Man with Black Hat Blames Everyone Else! Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts in Iran who has a black hat, has said that the fingertips of the West are definitely on the ghastly bombing in the south-east Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday.  So it’s all my fault then…? Interestingly, within two [...]

Welcome to the World of Outdoor Ceiling Fans This morning I trapped some pingback comment spam.  “Nothing unusual in that for a WordPress junkie” you’ll be thinking.  And you’re right! What is unusual is the irony of the targeted post and the  subject matter of the pinging website! The comment targeted this post:  http://str…combatting-wordpress-trackback-comment-spam, and [...]

A quick merge of video and a vinyl rip of some Crawling Chaos music as an experiment. The clicks etc have been emphasised and the equalisation of the track has also been altered to emphasize the monochrome nature of violent history. ‘Enjoy’ is probably an inappropriate word. All pictures taken from the web. (SP) Music: [...]

Enough of your bum faggery you fag-ended Gash Hound! This can be used in all sorts of situations e.g Phoning Granny Shopping for vegetables Enticing friends to finish their drinks quickly Running a charity shop While waiting for change on the bus While waiting for directions from the policeman in Trafalgar Square While waiting for [...]

Duck Island Found! View Duck Island in a larger map Duck Island, a stopover residence of the Greater Embarrassing-Viggers Duck, currently in it’s summer feeding grounds of America with it’s close relatives, the Greater and Lesser Failure-Bankers Ducks, has been found. After a thorough search, our intrepid reporters have found Duck Island close to an [...]

The Scalpels are so Sharp and Clean.. Such are the thoughts running through my head as my operation to improve my hearing looms ever closer.. ha ha. It comes from a track called Animal Bondage by The Art Attacks ..which Crawling Chaos used to do occasionally as a bit of a wake-up, I guess.  Funny [...]

Yup!  Still not got one. Sir Peter Viggers, MP for Duck Island, has announced that he’s retiring because of his enormously embarrassing expense claim for the town of Gosport, Hampshire. Gosport is worth 4 hides, a pig and a duck, complete with a pond.  There was some mention of manure. Duck Island currently costs £2585 [...]

The pope says sorry for getting it wrong over the holocaust and the nutty bishop The bankers say sorry for getting it wrong with their greedy decisions that lead to the current economic crisis Cricket captains say sorry for losing some games US car maker bosses say sorry for being crap UK Politicians say sorry [...]

Buddhism is concerned with the essential nature of humanity. Buddhism is not found somewhere else, separate from such beautiful expressions of humanity as appreciation towards one’s mother and courtesy to others. As Nichiren Daishonin teaches in the Gosho, “behaviour as a human being” that perfectly accords with reason is what constitutes the heart of Buddhism. [...]

Two items in the news concurrently today, and when I saw them, for each one the phrase that popped into my head was; Well that’s the Pot calling the Kettle Black! Firstly: The Pope warns of the Misuse of Religion Here, the pope has made a speech in an Amman mosque, and yes, it’s all [...]

Introduction I’m a born twiddler.  Even though something works quite happily, I’ll try something else. So it was yesterday. In an effort to improve the ‘user experience’ and promote a bit of feedback on this website, I’ve been twiddling with various plugins. Caching for Speed Some time ago I changed caching methods from Donncha’s WP [...]