Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Watch Phones Are Here

58 years after Dick Tracymade them famous.

So You Had a Bad Day

Director Mike Figgis spent longer at LAX airport than intended. He’d arrived in Los Angeles, along with half the acting and directing world, for what is known as ‘pilot season’, when the big studios try out new scripts, directors and actors in a two-week frenzy of auditions and career make-or-breaks. When Figgis was being grilled by airport immigration, he was asked the purpose of his visit. Unthinking and tired after a long flight, Mike replied: ‘I’m here to shoot a pilot.’ After five hours in an interrogation cell (yes, really), he finally made it into town.

Guardian

Federation Map

The Star Trek Universe all mapped out. Click the image to see the details. 

Global Warming Confessions

I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions from land use change and forestry. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty conclusive, but since then new evidence has weakened that case. I am now skeptical.

Read the whole thing. It’s what I’ve been saying all along.

Meanwhile, president (in her so-called mind) Nancy Pelosi claims she saw Climate Change with her own eyes when she visited Greenland recently. I don’t know how stupid this woman is, but seeing some localized thing which could be caused by a lot of factors other than climate change, is not proof of anything except her delusional mind. But the worst of it is, she is using this as an excuse to raise Germen climate control emission standards which are punitive towards industry and the public, despite there being no credible evidence CO² causes climate change, or that global warming is even a bad thing.

These increasingly shrill calls for us to cut back our energy use will result in more laws costing the public more money while taking away more of our freedoms. This is not remotely funny. Those of us who have watched anti-smoking fanatics make smoking virtually illegal to do anywhere, know where this can lead. If you’ve lived in drought areas you’ve heard of watering days for your lawn. Imagine power days, where you can use power in your house. You think that won’t happen? In some countries, the power is shut off for a day in some areas. They can do that here. This is where stupidity and fanaticism can lead us. 

Monday, May 28, 2007

Weird Sport of the Week

Roller Pigeon competitions. Pigeons with a kind of epilepsy are racd to see how well they have fits in the air.

Hero of the Day

Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant has spoken out against this summer’s Live Earth concerts.

Tennant has also hit out against Bono for his politically active role.

He said: “The Princess Diana concert is fair enough, but I feel more uneasy about the Al Gore thing.

“I’ve always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don’t - it looks arrogant.

“It’s not as if they have a private source of information. To state the obvious as if you are the only person that knows it is intellectually weak.”

New Music Express

Euro-Backlash

The Swiss aren’t putting up with creeping Islamification.

Members of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, currently the largest party in the Swiss parliament, have launched a campaign to have the building of minarets banned.

They claim the minaret is not necessary for worship, but is rather a symbol of Islamic law, and as such incompatible with Switzerland’s legal system.

Signatures are now being collected to force a nationwide referendum on the issue which, under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, would be binding.

The move has shocked Switzerland’s 350,000 Muslims, many of whom have been campaigning for decades for more recognition for their faith.

PC may have taken a strong hold in Europe, but I suspect we will be seeing more of this kind of thing. It’s no coincidence that people like Merkel and Sarkozy keep getting elected there. People in Europe are probably getting fed up with so called multi-culturalism. 

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Happy Memorial Day

Never forget the people who died so we could be free.

Mashup Dujour

Nissan Power Suit

Cool.