Here's yet more evidence that there are home-grown terrorists in our country and that they are actively planning to blow us up. However, yet again (see my post of 10th october last year), because they are not terrorists of the right religion you'll be hard-pressed to find the stories in the papers.

(Although it still evidence of our weird mindset that he's criticised for owning "rice and sugar, both of which can be used in the manufacture of explosives." And rice pudding.)

How many earths would we need if everyone lived like you?

Here's a quiz to show you what a horribly wicked and selfish person you really are. If everyone wanted to live like me we'd need four planet Earths. Of course, we wouldn't, we'd need fewer 'everyone else except me's. Or just better ways to produce the things I enjoy.Still, it's worth thinking about...



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Marsipan: Mission Video from the British Mars Exploration Programme

Have a look to witness some of the perils of Mars exploration.Come to the site and subscribe for regular updates of exclusive mission video from Mars and pubcasts from Professor Colander.Be part of the New Intergalactic Order!This was just a test from Digg to see that this worked. As no one reads any of this anyway, I shan't worry about filling up your RSS readers with repetitive ols shite. Now I'll have to look and see if it did (work).It did!Flight Director Barnaby Bottomley



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Is there life on Maaaaa-a-aa-ars?

Yes, we've remade Marsipan and so you can now find out! It's all new, it's stop motion: it's got voices, jokes and bits about aliens farting. Read it, lick it, like it, subscribe, send it so your friends...

And the mice in their million hordes, from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads...

This is very interesting, and a great return to form for the magazine formerly known as Living Marxism...

OK. First crabs that look like samurai are definitely cool.

Second, astronomy brain Carl Sagan sounds like a muppet, which is also cool.

To recap. That's double-cool...

Miami will have a carnival when Fidel Castro dies.

Again, no comment. Too lazy.

For someone who is strongly rumoured to be converting to Catholicism at some point in the next two years, you would expect the death penalty to be a fairly serious issue. However, according to this analysis of the Blair's position to the death penalty in the European Union, it appears that even the threat of eternal damnation as a result of mortal sins pales into comparison to 'making things difficult for the Americans'.

Of course, I'm an American, and it wouldn't make things difficult for me. I haven't executed anyone in ages, not since the moratorium I imposed on myself in 1996. It was for the best.

I wonder which American he's actually thinking of...

This is a plea for a humanistic Islam.

I found it interesting, and I pass it on to you without further comment. Because I am lazy.

As I used to say in 1996: "Isn't it ironic? No, Alanis, that's unfortunate, bad planning, and, in one of your examples, nonsense."

Fortunately, someone's now fixed the whole thing.

Now, that's ironic!