Some of you may know that my mum had an op a while back. Well David LaPuma had one too, and he's documented the whole thing and published the images on Flickr.
Check it out [Via BoingBoing]
BTW the images are very graphic.
July 2005 Archives
Most people would call it a little sad and pathetic, but I've been without an internet connection in my flat for the last couple of weeks (since before our Japan trip in fact) and whilst I have 'net access at work, not having at is actually quite disturbing.
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The forecast for tomorrow morning in Glasgow is round about 14ºC...That's at 7am. Its expected to be 20ºC by the afternoon. This is SCOTLAND FER CHRISSAKES!?! Where's the rain and gloom? Its almost getting to the point where its too hot to sleep at night! Hence why I'm posting this at 02:16.
So the news has been saying that the London Bombers were British, of Pakistani origins (3 of the 4 I think). So we now have the position what we're effectively killing ourselves. Not enough that we're doing it slowly through climate change, but now we let others “brainwash” us into attacking our own.
There was a very good point made on the BBC news by one important Muslim representative that we (the non-muslim population) must remember that these attacks were not done by Muslims, but by criminals (however misguided or misled is irrelevant in the end). It just happens that they were also Muslim, although through their actions show themselves not to be.
On the back of the previous post, I'd like to see the rhetoric (especially from the American govt.) being clearer on this. They are promulgating their “war on terror”, but still it seems to be a veiled “war on islam”. This cannot be the case, and they can and should do much to distance themselves from this perception.
In related news I've been reading some of the various sites that have quotes from Londoners as well as from others, and found one that I am particularly fond of:
[Insert “Tea” quote here]
It might be a little ireverrant but I think I'm going to make a t-shirt with it on. With the following quote on the back:
-British Empire was founded on cups of tea. And if you think I'm going to war without one, you've got another thing coming.
-You forgotten the guys haven't you, you tit
Watching the BBC News 24, and its covering George "Dubya" talking about the explosions in London. He spent a couple of minutes talking about "The Terrorists" and how all of them work for a freedom hating, totalitarian ideology. I'm sure you can really say that about the IRA and Eta. They are fundamentally there to gain freedom. OK they're doing it wrong, but they're not opposed to freedom and democracy etc.
Further more he says that they are trying to rebuild the Middle East to their own ends, and this I think is an unsubtle reference to Islamic fundamentalists, and from my point of view infers that he is against all Muslims, by virtue of "ignoring" all of the other terrorists that are out there in the world...
This is in my (current) home town, Glasgow! Its amazing what you bump into on the Internet
The Software Patent act that was going through the European legislation has been thrown out! (Yay!)
Just caught the documentary "Slaughterhouse" on the Beeb. very graphic and probably quite disturbing for a lot of people. But I think it was very good in opening a lot of peoples eyes to the actual process of "creating meat". Worth a watch if you can catch it again, just make sure you have strong stomach and aren't eating.
Well I've been running Glasgow Theatre Underground for a couple of months now, and the site is growing steadily. But I've been looking for ways of expanding, after the Glasgow theatre world is fairly small, and the stuff we're putting up is mainly of local interest.
So I'm going to launch the TheatreUnderground.co.uk network. This will be a network of community theatre sites which, like GTU, accept stories and news from the members of the community and provide an up to date portal on the activities in the community.
GTU will be eventually move to a new address: glasgow.theatreunderground.co.uk and we hope to be able to have up and running for August TheFestival.theatreunderground.co.uk
