A man in Idaho cut off his hand with a circular saw and cooked in it a microwave oven because he believed it bore “the mark of the beast,” police in the western US state said.
Poor bastard. I wonder what things he must have endured to end up like this 
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Seventh-Grader Suspended For Writing Hate List – Denver News Story – KMGH Denver
A seventh-grade Sagewood Middle School student is facing disciplinary action from school administrators for compiling a list of those he dislikes.
So I assume Santa’s naughty list would have him thrown in chokey?
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Liu urges governments to publicise the hitherto unanticipated environmental costs of divorce, and couples to consider the potential impacts of a divorce before going ahead.
I can’t see couples who can’t stand the sight of each other being able to keep together for the sake of the environment when they can’t do it for their family.
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It turns out someone I went to school with in the 70’s has moved to Sydney from the UK where we grew up, so guess where I am going for a beer next time I’m in NSW!
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PJF’s Pages – Journal – SAGE-AU 2007
need to have a talk that a room filled with hung-over sysadmins can grasp and find entertaining
Paul recounting tales of hungover system adminstrators at the recent SAGE conference reminds me of the first UK Linux conference I organised back in 1998. It was only two days long and to keep costs down there was no dinner or bar. However we hit the hostelries of Manchester in a large way and there were some very green people the next day. One of them was Alan Cox, who nevertheless got up and talked for over an hour without notes or slides about system security. I was totally in awe — when I wasn’t holding my head in my hands wishing the world would stop spinning. 
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it is kinda eerie that a cat knows that someone’s going to die before they do
Cobblers! I suspect that it’s the cat is picking up the physical activity and extra care that goes on around someone during their last few days/hours is coming in for that.
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It’s Saturday night and glass of Holgate Mt Macedon Ale is sliding down areal treat. Such simple pleasures!
Here we are on a Saturday morning plugged into technology. Jack is playing games on the PS3, Lisa is doing reading exercises on the iMac and I am learning about Scrum on Google Videos.
My favourite video blogger , Pat Condell, has released another video which attempts to raise a laugh and poke fun at religions in general. Of course along the way there is plenty to find offensive, but that’s comedy for you — and there is much in here I agree with.
Take what you want from it.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | When suffering gets personal
to see the miracle of other people’s lives snuffed out wantonly on the streets of Baghdad or Kabul, or London for that matter, for some scarcely understood political or religious motive, seems to me nothing short of blasphemy.
John Simpson, the BBC reporter , expresses his moral outrage at the many injustices he has witnessed. I can only feel sympathy and respect for a man who has seen so many things and not become inured to the suffering and immorality of it all.
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