I hope this is just a clever because if it isn’t I swear I have lost all hope for mankind. Santas in Australia have been told to say ‘Ha ha ha’ instead of ‘Ho ho ho’ as it may be offensive to women. Alien overlords come take over, we have hit bottom.

I don’t hate copyrights but it is my belief that they are they are being abused beyond all recognition of what copyright was originally supposed to be about. Here is a good editorial from the Guardian on the topic.

For years the UK newspapers have used fat American’s as an excuse for a number of things like the widening of theater seats in London and the like. Indeed in certain types of stories ‘American’ became a euphemism for fatso. I would then go into the city center of Nottingham and see hundreds, sometimes thousands [...]

Wikipedia is back in the news as someone has developed a scanning tool that will tell where people who edited an article were coming from. This has led to the shocking news that people from government agencies and corporations have been editing some articles. Firstly this is old news. Secondly why should we care? I [...]

The descendants of some people in New Guinea have apologized for their ancestors eating some other peoples ancestors in 1878. They almost shouldn’t have bothered really, they only ate four people, the Vikings in Ireland killed thousands a thousand years ago. Oh wait, the Danes say they are sorry for that too. Whew, now we [...]

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I am amazed by what a sewer CNN has become. I am sitting in an airport lounge and for more than an hour they have be dredging dirt about some dead celebrities baby. Complete and total crap, I often hear people complain about FOX News and wondered how CNN wasn’t beating it to a pulp, [...]

Traveling this week and didn’t preload posts so it may be a light week.

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Great American colonial history focused on Boston? Check out Boston 1775, a tight focus delivers a fantastic amount of well documented history.
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Flying home today and very tired. Regular posting to resume after I have had a chance to rest some. In the meantime feel free to debate whether we are simply giving away our privacy for convenience and novelty.

Here are some more bookmarks I found while cleaning.