Archive for February, 2006
Remember how Blair so graciously conceded a review of the Prevention of Terrorism Act? A sunset clause? Well, one year on, the terrorism having not been prevented, the mind-buggering absurdities (remember the man who’s only a danger to national security at night?) still glaring, the principle of punishment without trial or charge still in place, [...]
I am the third highest result on Yahoo! UK for “illegal penis enlargement operations in the Philippines”, which is about as sleazy as it’s possible to get. Penis enlargements…illegal penis enlargements..illegal penis enlargements in the Philippines.
What the searcher was probably after was this story from the Taipei Times of August 26, 2005…
Philippines:Penis enlargements probed
Prison officials [...]
A cracking post on why there are so many CCTVs, from the Cambridge University Computer Lab’s security research folk. Apparently it’s simply because the government put up a lot of money conditional on doing CCTV with it. The UK public sector historically loves use-it-or-lose-it accounting, despite the fact that it is completely fucking stupid. [...]
Iranian foreign minister says “The Islamic Republic of Iran demands the immediate withdrawal of British forces from Basra”. Jesus, it’s my Jeff Wode theory of terrorism in action again. “That wouldn’t wash with Jeff. He’d like a bit of pleading. Adds spice to it. In fact, he’d probably tell you what he was going to [...]
There has been a certain amount of comments spam advertising a variety of sites that claim to sell hotel rooms. It comes in, of course, from a wide range of IPs around the world belonging to insecure PCs. As usual, the best way to deal with most Internet annoyances is the economic way: target the [...]
There has been a certain amount of comments spam advertising a variety of sites that claim to sell hotel rooms. It comes in, of course, from a wide range of IPs around the world belonging to insecure PCs. As usual, the best way to deal with most Internet annoyances is the economic way: target the [...]
So there’s this great big bunker fulla bombs and shells an stuff left behind by ol evil Saddam’s roving ghost just downs the street in Baghdad. What do you think they did?
That’s right, call in an airstrike by four (yes, four) F-15Es. Call it faith-based strategy.
Southern Thai rebels download bomb development environment from iraq.com. Apparently the in-thing is putting your IED in a concrete shell shaped like a roadside milepost - not only for camouflage but for containment and flying lumps of concrete.
Does that count as glorification?
Kingdaddy’s Arms and Influence is one of the best blogs around. Check out this post on the US military’s problem with management consultant speak (itself essentially IT-speak with the clue taken out). It’s a relief someone else noticed it - for example, when I read Sean Naylor’s Not a Good Day to Die, I was [...]
Most readers of this weblog will be aware that a political scandal recently occurred in Greece after it emerged that persons unknown had been illegally intercepting the mobile phone calls of a wide range of prominent Greeks, including senior ministers and ex-ministers of the Interior, Defence, Merchant Shipping (a Greek touch), and many civil servants [...]
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