Goodbye, February

Conditions: Fleeting.

February is gone. Holy crap, that was fast. I swear I had a minute ago, I turn around for two seconds and now pfft, gone.


Go fly a Kite.

You would think that there's little more peaceful than flying a kite. But you would be wrong. A kite festival in Pakistan this week turned deadly when fourteen people were killed in various ways. Some fell from rooftops, some were electrocuted from power lines, a few died from celebratory gunfire, but one in particular stands out:

A seven-year-old child died when his neck was severed by a banned glass-coated nylon kite string.

The boy was driving home on a bicycle when a falling string caught between two lampposts cut his throat, police officer Mohammad Zafar said.

That's... That's just... Awesome. Awesomely tragic.



Chomsky on...

Noam Chomsky sat down for another interview recently on, you guessed it, America, Iraq, North Korea, and mankind in general, and as always the results were noteworthy and fascinating. Feed from his brain musings here.



Phew, that was close.

Back in the day, having the superpowers armed with nuclear weapons and harbouring paranoid suspicions about each other was just our way of life. The fact that we lived under a constant armed standoff was simply accepted. So, want to know how close we came to armageddon? Read this article and be amazed. Personal favourite:

On October 25, 1962, again during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a security guard at an air base in Duluth, Minnesota, saw a shadowy figure scaling one of the fences enclosing the base. He shot at the intruder and activated an intruder alarm, automatically setting off intruder alarms at neighboring bases.

However, at the Volk Field air base in Wisconsin, the Klaxon loudspeaker had been wired incorrectly, and instead sounded an alarm ordering F-106A interceptors armed with nuclear missiles to take off. The pilots assumed that a full-scale nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union had begun, and the planes were about to take off when a car from the air traffic control tower raced down the tarmac and signaled the planes to stop. The intruder in Duluth had finally been identified: it was a bear.

Let's Get Some Freaking Perspective.

Link to a short video visually showing the amount of money America has spent on it's Iraqi adventure. Mmmm, wasteful.


Food corner.

Since you've been good, let me share a home cooking favourite of mine:

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Jones's Fast Peanut Chicken Noodles

1 sachet of Chicken soup
1/2 brick of noodles
1 piece of toast
Peanut Butter

Once the noodles are done put them on a plate in the microwave for a minute to dry them out (include some frozen vegetables at this point if you're in the mood). Use the time to spread peanut butter on the toast, and cut into squares. Then mix the squares into the noodles. Finish by putting the chicken soup mix into a mug and adding like only a quarter-cup of boiling water. You're making sauce, not actual soup. Mix and pour onto the noodles, and mix everything together. Have some bread handy to clean the plate.

Mmmm, good.


Zombies in the Browser!!!

One thing about mankind, it loves shooting zombies. It's addictive. Well, some bright sparks have made an online Zombie-shootin' game that loads in but a moment and is a lot of fun. Play here. Watch out for the red guys.




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