A long time ago I started up my own website. It was a philosophy website and featured sky background with marble plinths in the foreground upon which the text, usually gold, was written - and it looked not bad at a time (1998) when most ‘user made’ websites featured black background, centered text (and a [...]
The iStone
This is a small post about why the iPhone is a rip off. In fact, it’s more than a rip off: it’s an indefensible joke. Here are more than 20 issues with the most hyped up piece of plastic ever to be released. It’s just so blatantly useless, I’m calling it the iStone. [...]
According to the BBC: A town in the US state of Louisiana is to be allowed to change its telephone prefix so that residents can avoid a number many associate with the Devil. Apparently Christians in Reeves have been unhappy since the early 1960s about being given the prefix, 666 - traditionally known as the [...]
After banging on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about how people can’t use their “copyrighted” material - that people can’t video tape the sports for example because that would be “stealing” their copyrighted material:
They’ve gone and done it themselves!
A woman uploaded a picture of her dog, [...]
Update: 9th February 2008
You might be interested in my new EEPC post; including where to buy, specs, and a bit about its new colours:
http://graeme-s-houston.com/archives/182
The saga continues
My recent entry (about ASUS ripping off Europeans (count 4 down)) has been generating a lot of hits from people who would like to know where to buy an [...]
Update: 9th February 2008
It’s worth mentioning that this article is pretty much obsolete since I’ve written another post about the EEPC including where to buy, specs, and a bit about its new colours:
http://graeme-s-houston.com/archives/182
ASUS will soon be launching their $199 laptop, the Eepc. Americans will be able to pick one up, and it’s a fairly [...]
A couple of months early for November the fifth, Ayrshire was gifted with an awesome display of pyrotechnics from a 10 year old and two fourteen year olds. Illustrated left, just plain old fireworks, but the explosion in Ayrshire was something else - flames surging 200 feet into the air, and they could be seen [...]
Reuters last night highlighted this bizarre piece of news from Russia, where police have arrested a 45 year old council worker who the police say committed “the bulkiest theft of the year”. It seems the man stole a 5 meter bridge which spanned a river in the Ryazan region, just east of Moscow. The man [...]
Reuters has reported that a one-legged Emirati is lining up his next two wives in his fantastically conceived bid to reach 100 children by 2015. He’s already the father of 78. Daad Mohammed Murad Abdul Rahman, who is now 60 years of age has had 15 brides during the course of his adventures. Due to [...]
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