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Inquiry into chemical plant blast
Investigations are under way after an explosion at a Teesside chemical plant. The explosion happened on a pipe at the Terra Nitrogen (UK) Limited site, in Billingham, at 0015 BST on Thursday. ...
Testing time
Steven Soderbergh Your film will be 56% romantic, 26% comedy, 38% complex plot, and a $ 29 million budget. Filmography: Sex Lies and Videotape, Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Eri...
More about East Timor
Another couple of articles about the current situation in East Timor. The first one relates to the calls for the Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri to resign. He is refusing to do so. This comes t...
Top 50 Conservative rock songs.
National Review has recently identified 50 rock songs which encourage Conservative viewpoints. So, what is on the list you may ask? Well, here it is: 1. Wont Get Fooled Again, by The Who. ...
Chaptering things.
Hello, you lovely, lovely people. As you may have seen from my DD, I’ve started using the diary chapters my subscription allows. The chapter titles are self explanitory, and means that if, for...
Y, Y, Y DO YOU DO THIS TO ME???
I signed up for the letter meme. Krud (possibly cos he hates me, though I don’t know why he would) gave me the letter Y. So. Here it is. 5 Y words and a bit about them. Yankovic, ‘Weird’ Al...
East Timor leader calls for calm
TENSIONS MOUNT Feb: More than 400 troops strike over pay and conditions March: Government sacks nearly 600 of 1,400-man army April: Rioting by sacked troops leaves five people dead May: V...
I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker…
…(With Flowers In My Hair) By Sandi Thom Chorus Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air I was born too late to a world that doesnt care Oh...
Enron’s Lay and Skilling guilty
ENRON TIMELINE 1985: Enron formed Oct 2001: Enron reports $638m third quarter loss and $1.2bn fall in shareholder equity Oct 2001: Securities and Exchange Commission begins inquiry into f...
Pic alert!
Couple of pics taken in the students union of yours truely. And now a couple pinched from TWOP: (If you don’t know what that one refers to search for Steven Colbert on youtube.) (Some...
Well. Bugger me senseless
Eurovision is camp, I’ll be honest, rubbish. The only band or artist (with any talent) to become big after first appearing at the competition are ABBA. For christ sake, even Celine Dion fuckin...
Hello
Just a general updatey type thing. Filmed Propeller stuff. Had to reshoot due to major fuck up. The reshoot went OK. Some frayed tempers but we got it done. Then we found out that the dead...
Wow!
You Should Be a Film Writer You don’t just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind. You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a chara...
Then and now…
Yoinked from LizFire 10 YEARS AGO (April 1996) How old were you?: 18 What grade were you in?: I’d left school Where did you go to school?: See above Where did you work?: I was unemployed Where ...
Fun things to do with a term paper
1. Type every word of your essay in a different font. Alternate really big fonts with really small fonts. 2. Support your thesis with quotes from your VCR manual. 3. Write the entire ass...
Funny Course Evaluation Answers
At the end of each college course, students are often asked to fill in evaluation forms rating the course, the lectures and the facilities provided. The following statements are from these evalu...
Archbishop: stop teaching creationism
Williams backs science over Bible Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent Tuesday March 21, 2006 Guardian The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the controversy...
A few things
First of all, to all of you who voted for which tattoo I should get next, thank you. At the moment, it is at stalemate, but it’s not too late for anyone who hasn’t to vote (entry title: Tattoo ...
Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian
10 – You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9 – You feel insulted and “dehumanized” whe...
The fans creed
I. I acknowledge that fandom can, has, and will exist without me. I am not important. What I can do, someone else could easily take over. Even if the fandom is tiny, there are probably many mor...
Tattoo me! *EDIT*
Quick quiery. Now, I already have anti – war, in Chineese, on my right shoulder. I may be able to get these done free, in which case, the following question (but not the one after it) is a moo...
Judge tells DoJ “No” on search queries
3/17/2006 06:00:00 PM Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate General Counsel Google will not have to hand over any user’s search queries to the government. That’s what a federal judge ruled today whe...
Surveylance
W H O . W A S . T H E . L A S T . P E R S O N . T H A T 1. You hung out with: Not including my housemates? Nikki and Kev 2. Saw you cry: Martin, Nikki and har brother 3. Went to the movies w...
Survey and photobucket test
Yoinked from Corbeau: 1. What time did you get up this morning? I didn’t. I got up at 3:45pm. 2. Diamonds or pearls? Not really bothered. 3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Mirro...
Oh, sod it. May as well.
What do you like about me? What don’t you like? Will
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