Dude with Bush T-shirt stopped from boarding

What is the world coming to these days? What happened to the libertarians of old, those who cry out and risk their lives to safeguard the freedoms of others?
We are in great need of young, energetic people who fight for freedom of expression in an age that is becoming evermore controlling. An age where a guy wearing an item of clothing to express his views on the current occupant of the Oval Office is restricted from boarding an airplane.
It gets better folks - the airline stated the reason for this restriction as a measure against offending other passengers on the plane. Is their anyone in this planet, apart from his mother, who would feel offended by a mockery of Dubya? If their is, well, what on earth do they feel on those rare incidents in which he choses to make a fool of himself?

Deja vu - I've already seen it!

Okay, perhaps the pun was a tad, say, crappy. I'm trying, alright? Anyways, the flic: not bad.
I've got to admit that I wanted to see it ever since I watched the rather dramatic and somewhat audacious trailer - I mean, having the opening sequence repeat itself? Pure genius!
Wandering back to point, I found Deja Vu to be deliciously full of suspense and action.
The plot of the movie centres around a terrorist attack in New Orleans. Denzel Washington as Agent Doug Carlin from the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives?) becomes involved in the police investigation and joins a rather special team who attempt to catch and (trying to induce suspense here!) stop the twisted psychopath who carries out attack.
And here we come to the dodgy bits. The plot is perhaps overly complicated, not really aided by the rather bizarre science. Yes, I do get the gist of Einstein's general theory of relativity (not really mentioned by the brainiacs in front of the screen) but sometimes the movie tilts towards the utterly weird. One notable scene comes to mind, where Washington drives down the bridge looking at nearby traffic with one eye, and traffic from 4 days, 6 hours ago in the other.
On the whole, a brilliant piece of screenplay, very exciting, very fast and reaches out to the humanity of the audience at times with a setting that is relevant to today's world.
(PS - apologies for the (lack of) accents you frogs!)

The real Ocean's Eleven

These guys were amazing - they tried to rob a casino buy using tiny cameras, microphones and a computer in a van parked outside the building.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6263795.stm

A platter of desert shrimp?

Check out this interesting delicacy in West Africa.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/africa_desert_shrimps/html/1.stm

IT IS HERE!

The Apple iPhone - $500-$800 - is here at last. Can they still call it an iPhone though?




(I found these pics on Wired at http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos16/2007/01/the_iphones_int.html
who got them courtesy Apple)

How much Google really hates Microsoft

Enhance XP if you don't want Vista

I just spent a few minutes checking out a few bookmarked sites I hadn't seen in a while, and went on to Metacafe, and found an interesting video. If you think Vista is currently overpriced and/or can't be bothered to rush for an update, you might as well as update your XP system to compete with the new ones.
Check out this link for help:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

And here's the video (the link above goes here btw):

Four Desktops In One! - video powered by Metacafe

Those who chose to forget history are doomed to repeat it

I don't think that Bush is like Nixon, even if he wiretaps citizens and has (or rather, HAD) a carbon copy of Dick's administration, but hey, what the hell?

Political campaigning 40 years ago

Have things changed? And if so, for better or for worse?