Strangely Perfect

It’s Just Like Bladerunner, And Not Just the Weather! Tears in Rain Bladerunner, the movie, based on an old Philip K Dick science-fiction story, was made by Ridley Scott from North-East England, someone I’m distantly related to.  Made in 1982, it presents a very grey, wet, bleak future, heavily referencing Scott’s (and my own!) upbringing [...]

Is Nuclear power Safe? Watch how the politicians duck and dive. Watch how they pick and choose which bits of ‘science’ to believe! Last week, smiley Alan Johnson fell out with serious Professor Nutt because the professor said some factual scientific things, things proven by statistics and analysis to have an overwhelming degree of proof.  [...]

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, [...]

Question. When Is Database not a Database? Answer.  When it’s a Government Lie And now, here is the news… Plan to monitor all internet use The home secretary, Wacky Backy Jacqui, has decided to scrap her naff plans for a (big) database but wants details of ALL internet activity to be held and organised for [...]

Highlighting the Differences in Public Health provision, the Attitudes to Death and Responsibilities of the State and the Individual to Public Welfare. The title is the biggest bit – trust me. Introduction This takes us from today’s news from America and the Duffy’s Cut project to a tiny hamlet in Northumberland, England, called Throckrington. Duffy’s [...]

The Sirens, and others like The Harpies, are mythical creations designed to remind us that all is not what it seems.  Their allegorical presence is there to make us realise that we can be drawn into bad actions as if hypnotised, even though we know and are aware of exactly what is happening around us. [...]

Some wonderful news this week for people worried about the real future of our world. The EU are hammering down on car emissions! EU rejects efforts to delay CO2 limits on cars RPT-UPDATE 2-EU lawmakers snub big carmakers over carbon curbs Blow to carmakers Climate package: Carbon-free cars? (pre-vote EU Parliament post) Reducing CO2 emissions [...]

Public Profiler, http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames1/,  the on-line surname popularity and derivation checker, is working now – either people have given up, or all the initial applicants have been satisfied.(see previous posting here.) So me, as a sheep, have finally been able to take a munch of the greenery within. The initial set-up seems to be working okay [...]

Ha Ha. Just like every other sheep on the world, I’ve just tried a new website which is in the news today, http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames1/ and we’ve crashed the site!  I tried access through http://www.publicprofiler.org/ and after a little delay, I got to the page at left. And after putting my name in, there it resolutely stuck!  [...]

In a sad move against conserving the Earth’s diminishing resources and the tax take available in London, Red Ken’s two pronged proposed changes in congestion charges for the City have been flattened by the new mayor, Johnson. Hitler’s peoples’ transport maker, Porsche Cars, are now gloating that their prime customer base is secure, completely oblivious [...]

The recent fuel tanker driver’s strike which lasted all of four days and only affected 10% of the nation’s fuel supplies has prompted the title of this posting. Having recently returned from doing some work at the new warehouse in the Midlands, as per the Hertz contract, I had to leave the hire car completely [...]

Three news items on the BBC today… Top UK politician loses confidential data aka Hazel loses it UK Prime Minister says that the government storing all our personal data is a “good thing” and will keep us safe. aka Gordon loses it A Romanian village elects a dead mayor. aka dead politician loses it – [...]

A. Nothing apart from a few years. Both companies were/are long established businesses, at the top of their game. Both were managed by whizz-kid fly-boy management just before their collapses. See here for the Marconi fiasco and here for Barratts’. Both collapses were brought on by splurges of massive company expansion financed almost exclusively by [...]

Today’s little mention on this news item here on The BBC News website about the auction house sale of a key that unlocks the door to the Kaaba, shows, at the beginning and end of the article, the true meaning of religion – certainly in the ones stemming from “Abraham”. It’s states it’s the “12th [...]