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

beings a all new meaning to the head of the un

Nazi Twin Singers Have Renounced Hate Thanks To Pot And Bob Dylan

http://www.mediaite.com/online/good-news-nazi-twin-singers-have-renounced-hate-thanks-to-pot-and-bob-dylan/

ho god! JWTF these wimm'in r just sooooooooooooooooooooooo boring! its what the right wing are

ok so im drunk

*42* years today!

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/20/the-eagle-has-landed-happy-anniversary-apollo-11/

I love the idea of celebrating the 42nd anniversary of things

I watched parts one, two (skipping the Spiro Agnew bits) and three this evening and I have bleeding tears in my eyes just like Cronkite and Schirra. I was in a hotel room with my parents and older brothers somewhere in Eastern Canada, I think, on July 20, 1969. I'm certain that my parents made a point of finding (on that summer's trip to one of our country's coasts) a hotel with a TV that night of all nights so that we could watch the broadcast from the Moon.

A little over two decades later, I drove a 1969 VW bus (yes, it had flowers all over it) from Edmonton, Alberta to the U.S./Mexico border (I didn't want to cross for fear of not being allowed back) and back again (with lots of winding about from Texas to California) and I don't think a day went by on that journey that I didn't think to myself that I was puttering along in a machine that had been built in the same year that Apollo 11 flew, that Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins went to the Moon and back in a machine from the same era as the tin can I was trying to hold together with bits of wire and a spare battery as I crossed the Mojave desert.

I just don't know what to think about the pace of technological development. Sure, I've got a telephone which has more computing power than all of NASA in 1969, but surely such power should be used to send a mission to Mars rather than endless sessions of Angry Birds on the toilet.

"Son, note this. This is living history" (to a 6 year old)

We bought a copy of all the (UK) newspapers we could find. Ms Stress took them to work and photographed the front pages (with permission - a copy for her bosses). We still have the papers and the negatives, somewhere (I think).

Ten years later while at the cape, we offered the local paper free copies... no answer was the stern reply.

Movie industry buries report proving pirates are great consumers

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/movie-industry-bins-report-proving-pirates-are-great-consumers-20110720/

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/news/a329487/harry-potter-boosts-austrian-wizard-school.html

A real-life wizarding school has reportedly been boosted by the global success of the Harry Potter books and films.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/rudolf-hess-body-removed-nazi

Rudolf Hess's body removed from cemetery to deter Nazi pilgrims

Any idea where it's been moved to
I'd hate to be wandering about like a lonely inmate of Spandau

Wonders how long it'll take someone to that one

Cremated and scattered at sea.

Now they should actively promote the Neo-Natzis to pilgrimmage to his new resting spot. 14 miles out in the North sea sounds like a good place to put them

Good excuse for the master race to show their prowess at swimming

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14235582

They give me ever since I watched the sphere, plus it going to be my excuse to decline a bracing swim in the North Sea for 14 miles and back

'Canada's crime rate is the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to Statistics Canada, as the volume of crime dropped five per cent in 2010 from the year before.

"The national crime rate has been falling steadily for the past 20 years and is now at its lowest level since 1973," Statistics Canada reported.'

Things are looking good.

'Homicides dropped by 10 per cent from 2009 to 2010 with the national rate of 1.62 homicides per 100,000 population the lowest since 1966.'

Wonderful news!

And what is the response of the right-winger in charge of the Government?


'They want to spend billions of dollars building prisons, saying that there is a real problem with crime.'



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/21/crime-rates.html



It's enough to bring out the criminal in me!

New Euro deal allows for selective default of Greek debt:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8653634/Greece-to-default-as-EU-agrees-159bn-bailout.html

Well I never! the banks balls up big style with there greedy, inappropriate mass lending to all that could not afford it. Were bailed out by those who suffered most being Joe public and now they are chucking our money on another daft venture that will end in tears and and another public bail out

Just desperate to maintain the odious Euro There'll be tears before bedtime

100 years ago HGWells wrote about the potential horrors
of genetic manipulation in The Island of Doctor Moreau.

And yet we will still have to fight to prevent scientists
from creating monsters:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8652093/Ethical-rules-needed-to-curb-Frankenstein-like-experiments-on-animals.html

Would you want new body parts grown on the backs of mice.
Or


~jwf~