http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleybaccam/steampunk-palin-comic

Steampunk Palin

seriously – wtf?

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/468752a.html

“Researchers are sure that they can put lab-grown meat on the menu — if they can just get cultured muscle cells to bulk up.”

See also
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/468752a/box/1.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg

“Bobby Farrell, the only male member of the disco group Boney M, died aged 61 in a hotel in Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, a spokesman for the city’s investigation department said on Thursday.”

There was a cat who really was gone…

http://www.vbox7.com/play:31e18abe

Well, my telephone was ringin’, they told me
They told me it was Chairman Mao,
Telephone was ringin’
And they told me it was Chairman Mao,
I don’t care who it is,
I just don’t wanna talk to him now,

I got the apolitical blues…

http://www.msf.web.tr/msf-en/

As I discovered this I have to give it a ‘thumbs-up’.

It’s another perspective on the middle-east and broader issues. Additionally, it’s opinions are not ones I necessarily endorse, agree with, support or recommend.

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/assange/

“Assange est sur la branche!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sQkEfAdfY

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1340436/Why-cold-warm-Greenland-Diverted-jet-stream-letting-icy-blast-Arctic.html

So that’s why it’s a mild -5C here and why the UK is so cold….

http://www.yihexin.com/

This week I has mostly been drinking…

Harbin Wheat Beer

http://xkcd.com/806/

http://b3ta.com/challenge/shakespeare/

…made glorious Summer by this son of York…

http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/

All the latest on the cyber-war between the wikileak Narodniks and the contra-hacktivista “patriots”.

Including information on this:

The ‘Low Orbit Ion Cannon’ a Distributed Denial of service attack device deployed by the pro-wikileaks Narodniks. Unfortunately for them it doesn’t hide their IP addresses leading to the first real ‘victim’ of this war a 16 year old arrested by Dutch Police .

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/09/operation_payback_anonymous_wikileaks_infowar_latest/page2.html

http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/home/

http://micgadget.com/

‘M.I.C (as in ‘made-in-china’ or M-I-C) gadget is a blog about life in China and subculture It includes knockoffs, funny gadgets, Chinese food, events and everything else’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUEdnoA5_Ak

Li on covert mission in Russia?

http://www.mentalfloss.com/store/T-Shirts/

Don’t understand?

…well drink some of this then:

http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/comedy/8078185/Tommy-Cooper-dominates-list-of-best-jokes.html

A classic Tommy Cooper gag:

I said to the Gym instructor

“Can you teach me to do the splits?”

He said,
“How flexible are you?”

I said,
“I can’t make Tuesdays”

http://www.geocaching.com/

Nolligan now goes Geocaching…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1SS7owyLbw

Take time to see the wonders of the world
To see the things you’ve only ever heard of
Dream life the way you think it ought to be
See things you thought you’d never ever see
Take a train to China or a plane to Spain
Go round the world again and again
Meet a girl on a boat meet a boy on a train
And fall in love without the pain

Like fun and money and food and love
And things you never thought of
These are the things
These are the things
The things that dreams are made of
New York, ice cream, TV, travel, good times
Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, good times

http://www.infowars.com/australian-government-to-force-internet-users-to-install-state-approved-software/

Australia once a penal colony is now an internet prison.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cjrp23lBSM

a trip down memory lane

http://www.theregister.co.uk/

The Register has great captions like this one:

OBAMA: US BOOTS ON MARS in 2035

Sod the Moon, we’ve been there already

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/obama_space_vision/

http://www.notepad.ch/blogs/

“Tinfoil Hat Tuesday”

‘The LHC will implode the Moon or PUT OUT THE SUN’

Proton-billiards miscue might pocket the black (hole)

See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/lhc_sun_moon_doom/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmc2STzMOT4

Now you can watch the whole Trans-Siberian train journey in real time.
See also:

http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/16/sink_the_bismark/

Scots unleash world’s strongest beer

………..41% ABV ‘Sink the Bismarck’ torpedoes German rival

‘A Scottish brewer appears to have torpedoed a German rival’s claim to the world’s strongest beer, by bottling a “quadruple IPA” weighing in at a liver-bashing 41 per cent ABV.’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkREt4ZB-ck

J K Rowling