I’ve been working on developing the Bureau Gallery website over the last week so I’ve not had time to update this blog as frequently as I’d have liked. However, now that it’s launched I can get back to ranting about Big Brother. 
SHAMELESS PLUG: I work as a freelance web developer so if you want to hire me to set up a blog or a develop a website let me know.
16. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
17. and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
According to the BBC, some dutch people have organised a prayer vigil. So that’s alright then!
The fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
A piano? On a mountain?
… but don’t know where to start. Google is your friend: ignorant bigots.
Christian Voice are the organisation that complained about “Jerry Springer the Opera” and also have a nice line in anti-gay, anti-abortion, racist rhetoric.
Just cos this one’s doing the rounds!
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I was this story on Reuters news site, it brought several tears to my eyes! Ouch! Hell hath no fury …
RIYADH (Reuters) – Surgeons have reattached the penis of a Saudi man who paid the price for trying to have sex with his Filipina maid and she attacked him with a knife, a hospital source said on Monday.
“This is a sophisticated operation. You are dealing with an organ in a difficult area and you want to try to return to its efficiency,” said a spokesman at Riyadh’s Takhassusi Hospital.
Earlier this month newspapers reported that the maid removed her employer’s manhood when he tried to molest her in the middle of the night as his wife was sleeping. The maid is now in police custody.
“It’s one of the rare cases … but they did it (the operation) last week and it went smoothly,” the spokesman said. “The hospital has done this kind of operation before, but only after people had car accidents.”
There’s a new article about the blogging boom in the current issue of The Economist: It’s the links, stupid.
And for those of you still wondering:
The word “blog” appears to date back to 1997, when one of the few practitioners at the time, Jorn Barger, called his site a “weblog”. In 1999, another user, Peter Merholz, playfully broke the word into “we blog”, and somehow the new term—blog—stuck as both a verb and a noun. Technically, it means a web page to which its owner regularly adds new entries, or “posts”, which tend to be (but need not be) short and often contain hyperlinks to other blogs or websites.
Some more grafitti from Manchester. The first one is on one of the bridges on the Levenshulme to Fallowfield Cycle path. The rest are on a shop shutter next to The Battered Cod in Fallowfield which just happens to be a mighty fine chippy.
There’s an article in todays’ Guardian about Oil companies lining up to survey and possibly exploit the fossil fuel reserves in the Arctic! Ironically, this has been made possible by the fact that Global Warming is causing the Arctic ice to melt; making the oil reserves easier to access!
I think somebody forgot to mention to the oil companies that if the Ice Caps do melt that most of their customers are going to be underwater! Nevermind Beyond Petroleum, this sounds more like Beyond Stupid!
More here: UK scientists attack oil firms’ role in huge Arctic project.
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