UK rail operator GNER last year introduced smoking carriages on its trains, only to be scuppered by the Scottish parliament’s decision to ban smoking in public places. But doesn’t the Guardian’s headline for this story seem a touch insensitive in light of recent events?
Archive for November, 2004
Head over to We’re Not Sorry and click on Photos for some really good pictures of rednecks with guns. (They must have thought www.wecantevenspellsorry.com was just too much of a mouthful.)
Along with one or two others I upgraded to Firefox 1.0 today. From all the news coverage it’s had you might be forgiven for thinking that Firefox is some kind of technological leap into the dawn of tomorrow, offering holographic, 5-dimensional, virtual reality cures for cancer beamed straight to your home with magic lasers. In fact, it’s just a browser for surfing the t’Internet when you’re meant to be working. OK, OK, so it’s the first browser I’ve come across to merit a Guardian leader article with roughly equal billing to the US assault on Falluja, but I still won’t be buying the T-shirt just yet.
When you think about it, they’re just fun-sized cabbages.
“…trailers lead to overexcitement… overexcitement leads to bowel irregularities… bowel irregularities lead to the dark side!”
Regular blogrot reader (hi Simon!) will remember that I promised myself I won’t watch any trailers for Star Wars Episode III. But that was before an evil, shadowy presence sent me a link to the teaser trailer and I clicked on it quicker than you can say “seduced by the dark side”.
We all know that the web is for people with too much time on their hands – but surely an online encyclopedia in Anglo-Saxon (a.k.a. Old English, a.k.a. a dead language) is taking things a bit too far?
The late great Frank Sinatra celebrates Another Four Years with this swingin’ number on the War Against Trrrrrr.
How long indeed. With The Incredibles looking set to continue Pixar’s gold run at the box office, perhaps inevitably their next effort, Cars, looks like a complete stinker.
Warning: Brace yourself for the first ever Pixar trailer devoid of any humour whatsoever.
This Film Is Not Yet Rated? How about “Aah! I can’t watch!“
I think I’ve found the angriest, rantiest blog in the world. This bloke hates everyone and everything. He probably hates me for linking to his blog.
Jack Straw’s description of a US attack on Iran as “inconceivable” is cold comfort – not only because we’ve been here before, but also because one definition of inconceivable is “not explicable by the human intellect“. On Dubya’s past performance, surely that means it will happen?
It’s about time somebody compiled an Amazon Listmania list like this.
Instead of all the bloody navel-gazing about the 2012 Olympics, can’t Londoners just be satisfied with celebrating the great sporting coup that is the 2007 WBMC?
The US Presidential election battleground states are teaming with trial-happy lawyers before polling even begins, all counting on the election falling into the lucrative “margin of litigation“. Perhaps the most promising aspect for them is the provisional voting system, allowing voters who “encounter eligibility problems at the polls” to complete a ballot paper anyway, and then the validity of their vote to be decided later. It’s hard to think of a clearer invitation to litigate.
There is another murky omen contained within that CNN transcript: the name of John Kerry’s senior adviser. He’s called Chad.
Proof if proof were needed that Bill Nighy’s talents are simply limitless.
As the 2004 US Presidential race draws to a depressingly inevitable photo-finish (although thankfully with no foul play suspected in Florida this time), trust The Onion to provide the definitive election guide as well as a handy countdown to the recount.