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I have no real opinion on whether a Carbon Tax is a good idea. And who can blame me. Too much rhetoric flying around. Having said that, if you held a gun to my head and made me take one side or another, I'd say I'm in favour of it. Taxing...
Well okay, I can see why they might want to ban this: Even if I don't agree with them. In fact, should they succeed, not only will I spam this image to as many people as possible (yeah, I've already saved it off for when the inevitable...
The Largest offshore windfarm has just opened off the coast of Kent. It's still being built, but the 100 turbines there will start generating electricity, with the expectation that there will be 341 turbines in total.Apparently, the 100 turbines...
It looks like the design of a Las Vegas hotel is such that it is concentrating the sunlight falling on it to the area by the swimming pool. Several guests have experienced burning from it and it is capable of melting plastic bags. Sounds like the...
After the fun and games of United Airlines and United Breaks Guitars, it seems that SouthWest Airlines decided that the fat guy in the seat should be ejected from the plane on the grounds he was a safety hazard. Now Kevin Smith may be slightly on...
You know, it's amazing what you can find in those sleepy little English villages. There were a lot of strange noises coming from a detached house in a sleepy village in Devon and so the police paid them a visit. When they investigated, they found...
Pagans within the police force in the UK will now have the right to take their festivals as official holidays. Each of the 8 days will be given the same respect as Christmas, Ramadan or Passover depending on your religion. These festivals will...
Someone has obviously slowed the Sun down or is playing silly buggers with the Mayan Calendar. It looks as though the sun is coming out of a quiet phase in 2013 and is due for massive solar flares that will knock out electrical grids and...
Yup, they have genetically engineered a malaria proof mosquito. It's incapable of transmitting the disease to people and if they manage to get it interbreeding with the existing mosquito population could have a dramatic effect. Genetic mucking...
..streak in front of Barack Obama in a place where you are not going to get arrested for indecency with a logo written across you stomach. British Billionaire Alki David has offered the prize to the first person to pull this prank for the...
Whern making rude gestures to your co-presenters who are on-screen, make sure you get your timing right. Otherwise everyone is going to see you making rude gestures when they cut to you. I'm not sure what's more amusing, the fact he made the...
Following her last statement about women no longer requiring men, you would think she would be be slightly more careful about what she was going to say live on TV. Nope, she decides to offend people by calling herself a retard. Although it seems...
It's been one of those promises that has been around forever, but now it seems that a Cambridge Laboratory has shown that the body deals with viruses in a far more expansive way than originally thought. It was assumed that once a virus has...
Arrested isn't perhaps the right word , but the 350-tonne 50 foot high blowout preventer has been raised and siezed by the US authorities in the ongoing search to apportion blame for the oil disaster. Given that it is the key component in...
Despite being the government department for setting and collecting tax from normal people, it seems that they couldn't get it right. It seems that over 5.7 million people have been paying the wrong amount of tax either. 4.3 million are due a...
In today's news, someone decides to inflame religious tensions. An athiest lawyer in Australia decided to make two roll ups made from the pages of a Bible and a Koran. The video, of course, was uploaded to Youtube and has since been deleted. ...
Operation Dark Heart is the expose of how the USA could have won the war aganist the Taliban and didn't due to interference from the top brass in the military. It has already been passed by the DoD and was due to be printed. However, once the...
France has now officialy voted in the ban on the wearing of the face covering veils. Barring a left-field challenge it will become law next spring. This goes further than just the original idea which was to ban them in places of public service. This...
According to newly released footage it appears that Tea Party Winner Christine O'Donnell has a more chequered past that some would give her credit for. Apparantly she dabbled a little in witchcraft, although never joined a coven. But she did once...
The underage girl was having an affair with her tae-kwon-do teacher, although it is unlikely they can be charged with anything. Her father put her into "protective custody" in an attempt to cure her "orientation". Apparently, the teacher found...
From the reports, it looks as though Ian Duncan Smith is going to carry out one of the biggest shake-ups in British Social Welfare. He is going to scrap all the existing and separate benefits and replace it with a single Universal Credit. He is...
Both the USA and now Japan have started warning their citizens of terror threats when visiting Europe. Apparently the threat level has been raised from 'general' to 'heightened'. It looks like Al-Qaida have decided to pick on Europe as an easier...
This caught me by surprise, although its something that has outlasted it's original purpose. They are finally looking to get rid of BIOS and replace it with something that can handle the moden computers and all that goes with it called UEFI...
For those who haven't seen it, this is how the latest ad from Tea Party member Christine O'Donnell starts. I'll be honest, though I don't have much time for the Tea Party, I recognise a good political advert when I see it. uxJyPsmEask So,...
Today the British government will reveal their plans for the ubiquitous quangos which have grown and multiplied in the running of the country and cover everything from canals to company watchdogs to arts and media. Quangos are basically a...
The EU has decided that the current countries around the Arctic Circle who are supposed to steward the area and keep it a natural habitat are failing in their role as custodians. This may have something to do with the deep water oil drilling that...
This appears to be the fate for an unnamed pensioner in Coventry who is claiming she won the massive Euromillions rollover. She has one problem, her husband threw away the ticket. They have 180 days to turn the house upside down to find the...
Greater Manchester Police carried out an experiment where they would tweet out every time they had to handle a 999 call under the hashtag of #gmp24. The point was to highlight all the work they carry out in answering emergency calls. It went...
It appears as part of the strategic review that the Coalition government is going to revive the plans to monitor all email, phone and website traffic and store said data for up to a year, for "security purposes". Effectively allowing the police...
This is the latest prediction of leading scientist Raymond Kurzweil, that within the next two decades you will be able to back and store all your thoughts and memories electronically. All your thoughts, dreams, experiences, everything that makes...
It brings to mind the classic phrase. Designed by computers... Built by robots... Driven by morons!!! It's beached somewhere off the coast of Scotland near the Isle of Skye. :fail: More fail here.
After 30 years of production, Sony is finally calling time on the Sony Walkman. A piece of music history ends today. I must have gone through so many portable cassette players of so many different brands, but its a shame it is finally over. ...
It looks as though Google has been guilty of several breaches of picking up a lot of personal and private data while driving around mapping streets. First off, they mapped all the wi-fi hotspots. Of course if they were open, the downloaded any...
This reptile thought it had got lucky when a baby elephant wandered down to the watering hole for a drink and it got the drop on the young calf. Fortunately, the rest of the group heard it's cries for help and came thundering down. It's not...
There has been a certain amount of outcry of the claim that straight women only go to bed with men "because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship". The claimer being Stephen Fry, whose view on it is that if women liked sex...
A Quantas Airbus A380, one of the superjumbos, was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore after the failure of one of its engines midflight. There was a large explosion and parts of the engine fell away shortly after it had taken off...
Fortunately, this was a controlled mini Big Bang, in which scientists are hoping to study the Quark-Gluon plasma soup created, instead of a large and horrific Big Bang in which the world ends. They manage to smash several Lead ions together that...
and this time its a rat. It seems that great African pouched rats are being trained to detect the smell of the explosives in landmines and as they are not heavy enough to set them off, they can safely show where they are. Whether this is true...
Well, now we know where Dr Evil is located, it's somewhere near the California Coast. An Object was seen shooting across the sky about 35 miles west of Los Angeles leaving behind a contrail for all to see. The Pentagon and Military are...
When 11am comes round on the 11th day of the 11th month, spare two minutes silence for those who have died in conflict.
Scientists have been baffled by the detection of two giant gas bubbles spreading out from the centre of the Mily Way, both 50,000 Light years across. They haven't expanded as far as our solar system yet and I wonder if they ever will. ...
Well, it may or it may not happen, but if the financial markets push then Ireland is in a lot of trouble, Due to having the Euro as its currency and having its interest rates set in Brussels, Ireland has gone into depression with little sign of...
Apparently they got engaged in October in Kenya and have been keeping it quiet since. The wedding should be some time next year, so time to bring London to a halt for the celebrations. Congrats to the happy royal couple.
No this is not a Dan Brown novel, they actually have managed to capture anti-matter in an electric field at CERN. Apparently, they managed to capture 38 particles of anti-hydrogen in an electric field for one sixth of a second. It will not be...
Lottery Winner Nigel Page has been forced to pay up £2m of his £56m lottery win to his ex-wife who left him ten years ago taking thier daughter with her. When he won the lottery, he did the decent thing and offered her £1m of the prize, which is...
A German man has pleaded guilty to the castration of his 17yr old daughters lover who was aged 57. The police were powerless to do anything about the situtation, and indeed it has nothing to do with them, so with the aid of two colleagues, he...
And for 2010, the TIME person of the year is Mark Zuckerberg the head of Facebook for changing the way we live our lives. Of course, Julian Assange was winning the online poll (wonder how that was being fixed...) So, who would be your person...
Tonight at some stage, the Moon, Earth and Sun will be in perfect alignment with the Moon in the Earth's shadow causing the moon to turn pink or possibly red. The best view will be from North America, but if the skies are clear here I may see if...
A new public information film has been shown in South Africa to stop people drinking and driving over the festive season. According to them, if you drink and drive you get to go to jail and meet lots of nice men who will never let you go and are...
It seems that due to the extreme weather a lot of water pipes have burst in Northern Ireland leading to a lack of fresh water of any kind. This has apparently been going on for up to 8 days in some parts. They are having to set up areas for...
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