Bill Bailey Thank God for Darwin
Dylan Moran I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.
“So what have I just paid R250 for?” I asked “I dunno” “Well let me tell you. I paid you guys R250 to open my computer, tell me my graphics card was faulty, take it out, promise repeatedly for a whole week to phone me which you never did, and then shrug your shoulders?” “Yip” [...]
I couldn’t resist posting this. Yes, I’m sure it is skewed. And is possibly paid for by the tobacco companies (although Reason TV is fairly well respected so I’m not sure). But it is interesting how far the world has moved… I’m not making a case here for going backward about smoking legislation. Regardless of [...]
It was inevitable really…after BO’s ascension into the US Presidency, it was only a matter of time before the photoshopping nerds and T-shirt makers went to town (and I can say that with a straight face because, well, I am unashamedly such a nerd). There’s a lot out there, and I don’t want to get [...]
What is it with cables? Put them together, neatly rolled, in a box and, before you know it, they have unravelled themselves, snuggled up to each other and intertwined like fat, horny earthworms. All lovey-dovey like. I have such a box of copulating cables. Long ones, short ones. Every kind of one. It seems that [...]
Today’s Argus reported that Nhlanhla Nene, parliament’s Finance Committee Chairperson who is now famous the world over for his chair collapsing on live TV (see my blog entry below if you’re the only person on the planet who hasn’t seen it) has had a massive sense of humour failure. He’s taking legal advice on how [...]
I read on the Mail & Guardian that there is an intriguing trial under way in Minnesota. Jammie Thomas is one of 26 000 people being sued by a viper’s nest of record companies for making available songs on her PC for download via Kazaa, a popular peer-to-peer MP3 download mechanism that replaced the trailblazing [...]
(First published in The Weekender, August 2007) THE air was crisp, the ground soggy as I tumbled through the open doors of the rickety yellow bus, onto the muddy pavement. I looked around. An empty warehouse behind me, some houses in the distance. No sign of human life. I was 9000km from home and about [...]
(I wrote this as a cathartic excercise to make myself feel a bit better about rejecting so many friend requests. I went through long bouts of anguish and internal wranglings before being able to bring myself to click the “Ignore” button….so this is to make me feel better. If you’re still a friend, don’t feel [...]
