h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

God is a blue eyed cyclops

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/4805889/Eye-of-God-pictured-in-space.html

I, for one, welcome our new cyclopean overlord

If the eye alone is two and a half light years across, then His Noodly Appendage must be...

>>Antarctic glaciers are melting faster than previously thought>>

Yep, that's what they said about Iceland too, where the glaciers where expected to melt away 1 metre per year - instead, NASA satellite surveyance showed they actually melt away at a pace of 10 metres per year.

China closes Tibet, no doubt so that there will be no eye witnesses to how they'll strike down anyone who dares commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dalai Lama's exile in public:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7907303.stm

Spider-Man musical set for 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7909772.stm

where can sign petition against this abomination and destruction of cartoon figures!?

next we get Friday 13th musical or H2G2 musical...

You can sign me up.

What is it with Marvel, anyway? The best comic books, but definitely not the best movies and almost certainly dreadful musicals. Whatever happened to progress?

The air traffic control service Nats has been found guilty of age discrimination by refusing to recruit trainee controllers older than 35.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7914073.stm

The reason it caught my eye was some of you may remember I was considering a job with them a while ago. I passed all the testing only to fall foul of the age rule. The difference was, I agreed with their reasoning.

Darn - I could have gotten myself bona fide victim status

Psychedelic bouncing fish discovered...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7914121.stm

...by divers on acid.

I wonder what happens if I pull this lever?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/02/an-octopus-mana.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html


what about this fish?

Yup. That's one freaky fish.

Yes, a weird fish alright.

Are you a Jumblie today then?
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Did you know the Dong is looking for you?

police hunt 7M euro bank robbers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7914888.stm

that is a lot of bank robbers, imagine the fights when it come to splitting the haul????

That's about a third of Sir Fred Goodwin's haul. Don't see any police outside his door.

The prime minister told members of Labour's National Policy Forum that there had been "the biggest collapse in the banking system that the world had ever seen".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7916215.stm

In a speech to Labour activists in Bristol, the prime minister said banks had lost sight of basic moral values.

It's not just the banks!

>>the prime minister said banks had lost sight of basic moral values.<<

Since when did banks ever have sight of moral values? You can't reasonably expect them to. We have government for that. Unfortunately, they got caught up in the right wing anarchist ideology.

Women should see the recession as an "opportunity" to show how valuable they can be in the workplace, Cherie Blair has told the BBC's The Politics Show. The human rights barrister and wife of former prime minister Tony Blair said firms were more likely to "take a chance" on a woman during the downturn. "This is an opportunity for women... to be part of the solution," she said. "You often find in times when things are going bad, that people are more prepared to take a chance and give a woman a chance."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7916596.stm

Gibberish.

Tony Hart tribute!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7917722.stm