Month: June 2008
UK is the no.1 arms exporter
'Britain won a dubious new accolade this week: it became the world's number one arms exporter. Not that...
Waking the Dead: the Stillborn Arise!
A premature baby girl declared stillborn by doctors in Mumbai "came to life" several hours later as the...
Greenpeace Whistleblowers arrested in Japan for exposing whale meat scandal
Two of my Greenpeace Japan colleagues, activists, Junichi and Toru, have been arrested for exposing the stolen whale...
Blather.net’s Tour of the Weird
Take an alternative look at your world - through the eyes of Blather.net. Created using Google Maps, exported...
Canadian school board uses ‘psychic’ to claim Autistic girl is being sexually abused
And they say educators don't care... 'On May 30, Leduc picked Victoria up from school, where she's enrolled...
Blather derails Lisbon Treaty. Continues drinking.
Blather derails Lisbon Treaty. Continues drinking Originally uploaded by blather Whoops, looks like this morning blog posting shot...
Apocalypse To Coincide With Blather Book Launch Next Thursday
A piece on Damn Data reports on how (according to a gentleman known as Yisrayl "Buffalo Bill" Hawkins,...
Fundamentalist Christians Create Armageddon Spam Service
This almost made me cry laughing. Fundamentalist Christians (the ones that think JC is coming soon in 'The...
Powers of 10
Crackin' Physics Gromit. A comment on YouTube says that the voice is that of 'Dr. Philip Morrison, physicist...
[Freakonomics] Bring Your Questions for Ralph Steadman
Just in time for the Gonzo love-fest which is kicking off all around us, the Freakonomics blog does...