Merry Xmas

Take a look atWelcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!if you want to be put off your Xmas dinner ... mind you, they don't even compare to some of the appalling attempts at "festivity" around here. i did vaguely consider setting up a sight featuing manky lights, but obviously someone beat me to it :0(

Anyway, have a wonderufl Xmas and a fab new year!

So true!

Make sure you try this ... type "miserable failure" (without the quotes) into Google and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button ....

BookCrossing Documentary

Most of the last few weeks have been taken up with recording and editing material for a college assignment - a 15 minute documentary on BookCrossing.Com. Well, it's almost finished, and a member of the UK Yahoo BookCrossing Group has very kindly put it online for me. It's quite a big download - 7.5MB or 14MB depending on which quality you choose - but I'd love to hear what you think of it!

BookCrossing Documentary

Oh, BTW, if you decide to join as a result of listening, can you stick chelseagirl or hey-miki down as your referrers! Thank you!

Glass Marble Magnets

Guess what everyone will be getting for Xmas this year .... ah, come on, I'm a poverty stricken student!

Glass Marble Magnets

Do you believe we were lied to about Iraq?

I'm hoping you will join me by going to Our World, Our Say now to sign a petition calling for a FULL independent, judicial, public inquiry into whether parliament and the British people were misled about the threat from Iraq.

The Hutton Inquiry is limited to just a small area of the conflict. It is absolutely scandalous that an illegal war, which has caused loss of life and immense misery along with making Britain one of the most hated nations on Earth, has been justified on the basis of half-truths and deception.

On September 24, 2002 Tony Blair stated: 'His (Saddam's) WMD programme is active, detailed and growing. The policy of containment is not working. The WMD programme is not shut down. It is up and running'.

Tony Blair described the intelligence upon which his assertion was based as: 'extensive, detailed and authoritative'.

The dossier which he was quoting from went on to say: 'Some of these weapons are deployable within 45 minutes of an order to use them'.

The whole war was fought on the basis that Iraq posed an immediate threat. We were told when war started that Iraq had deployed chemical and biological weapons to use against British and US forces. No such deployment took place. A whole series of allegations were made in the build up to war and throughout the war that have been shown to be at best inaccurate and at worst blatant lies. To date, no weapons of mass destruction have been found.

Sign the petition to Tony Blair now at Our World, Our Say and get all your friends and colleagues to do the same.


This is part of a major new Our World Our Say campaign to ensure that politicians are made accountable to us for their actions.

Dave Gahan .. Legend!

World Beard and Moustache Championships Carson City 2003

I'm not sure why it is that I'm not surprised that the majority of competitors to the World Beard and Moustache Championships Carson City 2003 are German .... the photograph evidence is amusing.

Angle-Grinder Man

My new favourite superhero!!! I can't wait till I get clamped in the station car park now ;0)

Angle-Grinder Man

Crazy M

Dan has decided he'd quite like his favourite clown Crazy M to do the entertainment at his birthday party next month, so I did some investigation on the internet. Turns out she and her "silly" boyfriend (her words, not mine!) got married recently ... he's a clown too ... ever been to a clown wedding? The photos are well worth seeing!

Crazy M's wedding pics

David Blaine - Stunt or ...?

Thanks to Ulen for alerting me to a rare BBC website typo.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Police watch on Blaine-baiters:

"Some local residents have complained about traffic coming to a standstill on Tower Bridge as motorists slow down to look at the stunt."