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Extract from President Bush’s exclusive interview with Fox News’ Brit Hume, 22 September

HUME: How do you get your news?

BUSH: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you’ve got a beautiful face and everything.

I glance at the headlines just to kind of a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.

One of my favourite films of all time: Naked Lunch. Warning - your imagination may offend you. Have you seen it?

Dont know if you ever noticed, but a brief synopsis for this film can bizarrely be found in Bomb The Bass “Bug Powder Dust“.

Wow - you can now buy La Femme Nikita Series 1 on DVD! Ive waited years for this good news.

Also check out Sounds of La Femme Nikita - it has listed all the music used in every eposide in every series of LFN. What a gem! Time to start collecting. Some of the tracks can be found on the only available LFN Soundtrack CD which we already have.

Brighton viewers can now watch Channel 5 without the help of satellite or cable! That means we can finally see the La Femme Nikita series on Tuesdays at 23:50!!!! Im so excited!

Channel 5 is Britain’s last analogue, terrestrial network and has been on air since Easter 1997. It’s available to nearly 80% of the population. And it was the first terrestrial station also available on satellite.

This is spectacular!

Powers of Ten
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

(thanks graham!)

would this be the wrong time to ask for seconds????

Id love this as my desktop wallpaper. I really wish there was a wallpaper section on the site.

A bad case of “DVD rot“ is likely to eat through your DVD collection.

(found on what is this “blog” thing anyway?)

The Well Project
The first of its kind: The Well Project is an online “community for women with HIV and the people who care for them.” It offers “the latest information on living with and managing HIV disease for HIV positive women, healthcare providers, and advocates.”

found on ERICHIAN

Moofeus: “Have you heard of THE MEATRIX? Do you want to know what it is?
The MEATRIX is all around you.”

Brilliant!!!

We never seem to learn, do we?

“Speaking of learning, tomorrow is Remembrance Day here. A day where we remember those who died for our freedom. While I am saddened that people did lose their lives during the wars, weren’t these days also to remind us why war is bad? So that it would never happen again? It appears not because war continues to this day.

So, tomorrow, I will remember the veterans but I will also mourn that we have learned nothing from it.

What about freedom? Do we really have it? That is truly debatable.”
~ lola

News of the Weird
In Easton, Pa., in July, Robert Peters Sr., 47, became the latest man to be acquitted of indecent exposure by convincing a jury that his penis is too small to have been seen by the complaining witness. A woman testified that she had seen “3 inches” of erect penis beyond the bottom of his shorts while he was working in her home, but via photographs and a brief trouser-dropping in the courtroom, Peters convinced the jury that he is very modestly endowed and that she must have seen something else.

Reviving an extinct tiger
More than 60 years after its extinction, the museum launched a project to clone the Tasmanian tiger, more correctly known as the thylacine, a lost icon of Australia’s island state. This pup’s DNA was the starting point, due to its remarkable state of preservation.

From its vault in Sydney’s Australian Museum, a pickled Tasmanian tiger pup has brought the prospect of reviving an extinct species to the verge of reality, bringing mixed reactions of wonder and terror.
- photo

Baghdad George
“He keeps repeating that canard that ‘terrorists hate freedom.’ Nonsense. There is no terrorist in the world who is a terrorist because he hates freedom. By far, the majority of terrorists are fighting for freedom of some group that doesn’t have it. In the case of Iraq, it is freedom from American occupation; with the Irish Republican Army, it was freedom from British rule; with the Palestinians, freedom from Israeli occupation; and so forth. It is absurd to suppose that a human being sitting around suddenly stands up and says: ‘You know, I hate freedom. I think I’ll go blow myself up.’”

found by bsti on Chapel Furnace - Political Wing Of Chapel Perilous

Naked Protesters & Nude Activists:
Public Nudity in the Public Interest
(via geisha asobi)

FORTEAN GALLERY: PARANORMAL
Is this the only known photograph of a zombie?

The Motivated Marketing Letter - Howie Jacobson

Learning Dog-lish
‘For the last 10 months, my dog, Layla, has thought that I’m a clueless, blubbering moron. I say “stay” when I mean “come,” I say “jump” when I mean “lay down,” and I say “nibble playfully at my hand” when I mean “walk next to my knee in a dignified manner.”

But I just finished reading a remarkable book about dog training that has turned my communication style completely around. Now Layla understands most of what I say the first time, and has begun treating me with a good deal more respect. So now when I want Layla to sit, or stay, or come, I use my body like a dog would. I lean, I use eye contact, I use noises and cadences. And here’s the absolutely mind-blowing thing: she obeys, without any training. She understands me, because I’m finally speaking her language.’

Are you marketing in You-lish or They-lish?
‘When I start marketing a product, I naturally start by talking to myself. I write sales copy that appeals to my values. I argue the price/value question in ways that I find convincing. I use layouts and pictures that affect me.

Bad Howie.

Unless my market is very much like me (which rarely happens, believe me), I’m going to fail. I’m speaking Gorilla-ish to Dogs. To me, I’m saying “Buy my stuff,” but they hear, “Run away! I’m a Dork.” I’m not going to succeed in teaching my prospects Howie-lish. If I want to communicate with them, I have to learn their language.’

This is SO COOL! Firda is so clever.

Firdamatic™ is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze.

Produces valid XHTML and CSS. So simple! I cant wait for the new book of styles. Firdamatic is only a taste of what’s to come!