The smart/cute brunet dream team! I stole this from The Open Piehole. Watch the video whilst I swoon away in pure delight at two of the nicest, smartest, cutest, leftie, socially-conscious men around.
Take that, Limbaugh, you deluded pillhead!
Europe’s power failing, Saddam Hussein pays the price
Sound familiar?
The latest round of TWAT (The War Against Terror) has seen Europe, plagued by sectarian strife and a failure of power, take fatal vengence on former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
From the BBC
Romano Prodi said there was a “contradiction” in having a unified power network but no central authority.
Power failed first in Cologne, Germany, before shutting down across parts of France, Italy, Spain and Austria.
Belgium, the Netherlands and Croatia were also affected.
“My first impression is that there is a contradiction between having European networks but not having a central European authority. It is somewhat absurd,” Mr Prodi said.
Couldn’t have put it better myself. But what’s the usual reaction of a centralized authority when it finds itself powerless? Flail, that’s right. Execute something. So let’s check the rest of the net and see on whom their vengence has alighted:
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s High Tribunal on Sunday found Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang for the 1982 killing of 148 Shiites in the city of Dujail. The visibly shaken former leader shouted “God is great!”
Saddam’s half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of the former Revolutionary Court, were sentenced to join Saddam on the gallows for the Dujail killings after an unsuccessful assassination attempt during a Saddam visit to the city 35 miles north of Baghdad.
The death sentences automatically go to a nine-judge appeals panel which has unlimited time to review the case. If the verdicts and sentences are upheld, the executions must be carried out within 30 days.
pic o’ the day: samovars of the gods
Hail our new caffeinated leaders! via Fark. Honestly, are these not the most beautiful samovars you’ve ever seen? Okay, okay caffeine pedants, URNS! There, happy now?
everything has a fansite: Jean Teasdale edition
A word of warning: this site does, just as you’d expect, feature corny background music that comes up and irritatingly synths around the whole time the page is up, but as I say, what can you expect from Jean Fucking Teasdale, perhaps the most perfect example of the average internet addict that the world has ever seen? What could be more typical? Only the fact that this “fansite” is, in fact, her own creation. Do check out the fan fiction; it’s unmissable!
The Pew Institute earlier this year released an exhaustive study of internet use and demographics and they found, much to their surprise, that the mean internet user, who was in fact quite average and not a little mean, even though she doesn’t want you to think so and uses any number of animated teddy and kitten gifs in her chain emails to further her warm and cuddly image, wasn’t the 15-year-old antisocial boy the advertisers were looking for at all, but was, in fact, a 45-year-old, highly socialized woman.
Jean Teasdale is their leader. 
Resistance is futile: You will be assimilated. Have a happy!
Percy Bysshe Shelley on blogging
This dude so totally nailed it. Was he blogging at Diary-X, too?
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
