Monthly Archives: April 2004
Funkmaster CC Clive Wolfendale
“I’m just a white boy called the Deputy CC / They said I’d never make it as a bitchin’ MC / You got it all wrong, cos now here I am / Giving it for real in the North Wales BPA jam” – North Wales deputy chief constable Clive Wolfendale Christ and his mates on [...]
Mullet's Mullet
Mullets, where would we be without you eh? Honestly, apart from people falling on their arse I really don’t find many things funnier. Yes I am easily pleased.
Quantum Wantun
‘It has been widely accepted that the rival interpretations of quantum mechanics, e.g., the Copenhagen Interpretation, the Many-Worlds Interpretation, and my father John Cramer’s Transactional Interpretation, cannot be distinguished or falsified by experiment, because the experimental predictions come from the formalism that all such interpretations describe. However, the Afshar Experiment demonstrates in an interaction-free way [...]
Pop culture on fast forward
“It’s as if we no longer NEED heroes to tear down to feel better about ourselves, we just create people to be torn down as soon as they appear, not waiting for the time when they stumble.” (The only card Solitaire Rose needs is the Ace of Spades! – Barbelith Underground 2004) The concept of [...]
23rd April
St George – an Cappadocian who died in Palestine who is now patron saint for England (part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) a country made up from Celts, Scots, Picts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Vikings, Normans, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, African, Caribbean, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Russian and many other peoples.
President and the Pea
There was once a Prime Minister who wished to forge a special relationship with a President; but then he must be a real President. He traveled all over the world in hope of finding such a President; but there was always something wrong. Presidents he found in plenty; but whether they were a real war [...]
Con-stitu-tion
Con-stitu-tion – ‘the basic law or laws of a nation or a state which sets out how that state will be organized by deciding the powers and authorities of government between different political units, and by stating and the basic principles of society. Constitutions are not necessarily written and may be based on aged customs [...]
If
If – Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal [...]
Vanity Publishing
The Guardian asks if blogging is more than vanity publishing? The article contains the usual arguments about what blogging is, should be, could be etc…I dunno – for me this site is very much a blank canvas for me to experiment with. Many people draw, paint or write for no reason other than they enjoy [...]