"[Bulgarian President] Georgi Parvanov Bulgaria: worked [for the secret police] under the code name Gotse". snigger
"[Bulgarian President] Georgi Parvanov Bulgaria: worked [for the secret police] under the code name Gotse". snigger
Andrew Marr: I do radio, telly, books and newspapers because I'm not sure which of those is going to disappear first
A Kyrgyz MP wants to legalise opium, and hence pay off the country's debt within 2 years. Probably because CSIS has been suggesting the same thing for Afghanistan.
Another reason to head for Archangelsk: see the 10-storey wooden folly
Hard Rock Cafel sold to an American Indian tribe.
London tornado: Scotland Yard are on the case (RU). Satire from the Idiot.
The Onion: a better pick-me-up than 10,000 inane depression-help websites.
Zizek for Weddings: because nothing says 'I love you' like a line from the world's sweatiest theorist.
Odd things you find: Enochian chess. Yet another 'huh?'
If I can't get away with 'Allo Allo remade in Kirkuk, how about Casablanca in Umm Qasr?
With megawatts of power coursing through his body, he discharges his surplus energy by playing high voltage rock 'n' roll with his electric guitar. He spends his days looking for lost lizards in the alleyways of Tokyo, and his nights fighting the reptilian part of his brain that is making him increasingly violent. A shadowy figure named Thunderbolt Buddha soon surfaces and begins following Dragon Eye about town.
O RLY: thesis, antithesis, synthesis.Hilarious, but perhaps only because all over-geeky humour is.
Too funny not to propagate: fisticuffs in the Iraqi parliament over a phone ringtone.
Center for Tactical Magic; I think I'm in love.
All roads lead to danah,; a frivolous google for "land of the livid" (because it's a fantastic phrase) leads to a two-year-old account of her going through finals. Hehe!
Gold-farming has led to anti-Chinese prejudice in WoW. This does happen in the RuneScape community as well, but for some reason isn't so common.
The US will test 700-tonne explosive in Nevada this June. I can see this being a tourist draw: "come to Vegas, see the mushroom cloud".