2060: Humvee-sized, bulletproof meat-eating spiders attack

hooray for global warming, now i have to prepare myself for giant flesh eating spiders, surely some movie or book has prepared me for that one, damn my geek brain!!!!!!

anyway you will be all glad to hear that after the flu gets us all, the spiders are gonna rip us a new one:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/07/armoured_spiders_out_of_greenland/

Dishonesty Undermines Democracy.

Members of Parliament present a very easy target at the moment. Perhaps too easy. Nonetheless it is difficult not to take a swipe at the shower of mugs after the recent revelations.

The expenses saga is the culmination of a gradual build up of very bad press for MPs. This has been coming for years. The culture surrounding the conduct of expenses at Westminster reveals an institution that is not only out of touch with the world outwith it's lauded 19th-century Gothic style walls but also portrays an arrogance that is inexcusable. 

Taking liberties in office has been part and parcel of British politics for generations - be it in Government or not. It was the same for say, a high up official in the East India Company in the 1700s, who engaged in black market activity to supplement his salary, as it is for a 21st century MP who uses the system to play on the property market.

Toilet seats, tennis courts, dog food, the list is endless. It is true, as has been cited by the PM, that the system is at fault. However, in no way is this an excuse. To blame the system for the selfish actions of elected representatives is a total cop out and ignores the truth. Official systems allowed Jews to persecuted in Nazi Germany, the Apartheid regime to segregate on the grounds of skin colour, or women to not enter chambers of government until the 1920s in Britain. This did not make such action correct, the practices these systems made possible were not right. Granted, these are extreme examples but they are of the same ilk of what we are seeing in Britain this week: democracy being insulted and trodden on. 

The MPs that exploit a ridiculous system for personal game run the risk of bringing into total disrepute an institution built by people such as Disraeli, Lloyd George and Attlee. Although permitted by a system their actions are dishonest. Sorry is not enough. Paying back is not enough. The system needs ripped apart and rebuilt. Trust and honesty must be restored.

Truth is democracy and dishonesty is hypocrisy.

Open Letter to the Lib Dems...

thanks to
http://openlettertothelibdems.net/

WHO THE HELL NEEDS AN ART GALLERY

http://www.ekosystem.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5657

Check out the creatvity going on in the streets around the world

THE HISTORY OF BROMANCE

http://timesonline.typepad.com/blockbuster_buzz/2009/04/i-love-you-man-the-history-of-bromance.html#c6a00d83451586c69e201156f79fad7970c

Anti-Culture

I found this on the Guardian's Joe Public Blog:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2009/may/05/chav-fighting-workout-gymbox

An anti-culture exists in Britain today. The existence of a ned-bashing gym program is the epitome of this. Fascination with bricks like Kerry Katona, Jade Goody, Peter Andre and that manky bloke who married Amy Winehouse. Widespread generic fashion and music. Apathy among the youth and especially the student bodies of the universities. 

Our time is the opposite of the enlightenment, technology has not brought us advance. In Britain today we only decline in morals, values and ethics. 

I fear that we are no longer interesting.

Robot...

Although I like the idea of a personal chopper, I found the resembelence to the above fella slightly too close for comfort...

supercool foldaway helicopter

Next year i will be mostly flying one of these:

http://www.danielkocyba.com/hummel.html

ILL PREPARED FOR FORTHCOMING GLOBAL PANEPIDEMIC

Well I'm on night duty so its a fair bet i am gonna write some stuff for this here blog. I have to be honest and say I am not prepared for the forthcoming human apocalypse that is H1N1........otherwise known as swine flu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1N1

Popular culture (popular culture I like any how) has ill prepared me for deal with death by mutated super flu............I know or the geek within me would like to think most of us have read Stephen King's "The Stand" where the world's population is wiped out by a super flu of sorts.......as great as read as it is, the novel however does not give you the basics on how to survive that particular worst case scenario bar being one of the chosen few survivors fated to be on the side of good or evil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand



"I am Legend" by Richard Mathason, where the world's population are turned into vampires of a sort, after some sort of biological attack........love that book, and film version of it "the omega man" with Charlton Heston.........nothing quite watching the former head of the national rifle association going gun crazy against vampires in 70's USA, but yet again apart from being tooled up all the time, living in swanky flat with a well stocked wine cabinet........your still screwed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend



Alien invasion, well this is an anomaly because this is the one area were our new super flu can help us out, "War Of The Worlds" by HG Well's, the world is looking pretty much like a 24/7 all you eat buffet to the invading aliens until they get a serious cold and are wiped out by a human virus. better start stock piling some swine flu for that particular worse case scenario.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds



nuclear Armageddon. Now when i was kid I was scared shitless by the BBC film "threads" basically BBC does a what if it really happened aftermath style movie, mid 80's BBC doing what it did best quality gritty drama, and i still have a hard time watching it today..........basically we are fucked, no rosy mad max style car crazy future for us, just the long slog of rebuilding and waiting for the sun to shine again. I dare one of you to watch the fucker! see I'm still traumatised! swine flu is a piece of cake compared to that one!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads



Now, the only real global scale emergency I feel fully qualified to deal with 100% is......................the rise of the living dead! Zombies! I feel I can deal with that! "dawn of the dead" by George Romero (not the Zack Snyder remake), great movie.......basic zombie survival rule: head for the shopping mall. "28 days later", and "dead set" basic zombie survival rule: run like fuck!, "Shaun of the dead" basic zombie survival rule: always have your best bro by your side.........i know what your thinking, should the rule not be head to the pub and hide out........i have to point out who the hell you gonna get shit canned with at the pub , if it not with your best bro or girl!...........and the one rule they have in common stop by b and q for some quality blunt objects to smash zombie heads in. TV, movies and comic books have put me at ease about that particular global shit storm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Dead

illustration: http://www.johnschwegel.com/portfolio.htm