Strangely Perfect

Introduction The last thing we need is more scummy scammers and following on from Google’s legal action against Pacific Webworks (PWW) one would naively have thought that the “business” folk would be more circumspect.  (See previous article and comments, http://strangelyperfect.tv/5146/more-on-google-profits-and-pacific-webworks/ ) At the beginning of June, it appeared that the Google case against PWW had [...]

As MP’s expenses come to the fore again, Peter Mandelson spoke on Radio 4 this morning and did his usual self by not explaining anything and being perfectly unclear about everything!  Listen hear here! Thank god the interviewer cut him off. The question was “Have you got much sympathy with MPs who’ve claimed under one [...]

A Possible Start to Personal Details Theft? Here’s how it works… Some time ago I made a posting on the odiously chubby internet bankrupteer and millionaire self-publicist Robert Allen (see link here).  As part of this investigation I used the name “Morton” coupled to my spam magnet email address in order to see what would [...]

My mate ‘Zippy Len’ pointed me to these strange creatures.  Looking half-pig, half-sheep, they could be called shigs or peeps but are actually curly-haired pigs!  They are rare – in fact they nearly died out.  They belong to Pig Paradise Farm, the home of all rare breeds! (contact them here.) Maybe after looking at these, [...]

At Last – some Proper Reporting from the BBC I actually thought that no-one did it any more – investigative journalism, that is!  Tonight’s show, Panorama: Slumdogs and Millionaires is on BBC One, Monday 6 April at 2030 BST and promises to reveal the hell that a combination of Arab religious kleptomancy and the sheer [...]

The Triumph of Wishful Thinking over Common Sense The recent previews of the Microsoft Vista replacement with it’s unreliable “hands on” dragging experience (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7695933.stm) are another reminder that desires aren’t always satisfied and that designers don’t always design what people actually want for their daily work. PCPro Magazine have duplicated the recently banned Apple iPhone [...]

Gary Glitter, former prince of glam-rock; Paul Gadd, convicted paedophile.  They’re one and the same. Now wait, recent events around Gadd-Glitter remind me of happenings a long time ago in Ancient Egypt…. Most folk have heard of King Tutankhamun, the boy-king with the gold death mask. Not so many know that his (probable) dad was [...]

Raw sewage threat to booming Dubai Despite boasting several fancy shaped islands that are visible from space, a sail-shaped hotel, an indoor ski slope with real snow and a new city every day, the planners (for this whole false paradise of un-sustainability has actually been planned, don’t forget!) have forgotten to plan for all the [...]

I had a little titter to myself recently when several things collided.  Like many people who grew up in the seventies, I bought and read Eric von Daniken‘s book, Chariots of the Gods, and other similar rubbish on razor blade-sharpening pyramids and megalithic yards…. I’d completely and conveniently forgotten about all that despite living close [...]

More on the Julius Baer (un)Trust(worthy) goings on with WikiLeaks. I’ve uploaded the documents as a public service. If everyone does this then they can’t close everyone!