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Poll: In the Night Garden Part 1!

In The Night Garden is a kids show from the makers of Teletubbies. It’s the same sort of repetitive nonsense as the earlier show, although with a bit more… I don’t know. Back-story? No, not that. Characterization? Hmm, maybe. Silliness? Yes, that’s not a bad option. Let’s leave it at that: Silliness. Well, now that’s [...]

Obama-bangin’

Well, I had to have a bit of a laugh at this, Newsweek’s cover story: “The Making of a terrorist-coddling, warmongering, Wall Street-loving, socialist, godless Muslim president.” What a fantastic headline! What’s even better is the fact that Obama isn’t any of these things. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter meticulously picks apart each of these myths, exposing [...]

Tokyo Times: One of my favourite phlogs

I’m constantly impressed by the simple excellence of the photographs offered up at Tokyo Times. Many of them are taken with nothing more sophisticated than an iPhone, showing the man’s true talent. The site/blog/phlog is run by Lee Chapman, an English dude in Japan. His use of light, shadow and subject are excellent, and I [...]

Pic of the day

There could be a story behind this photo, folks. In fact there could be a great one. Only I’m guessing there’s just one word behind it. Can you guess what it is kids? That’s right. Alcohol. It just goes to show that it can really impair your judgement. Why else would she be wearing mustard [...]

Awesome – World’s fastest EVERYTHING

Awesome Zapiro comic for Zuma

Capped!

This is a photograph of the concrete dome on Runit Island. The island, which is part of Enewetak Atoll was fitted with its unusual concrete cap because of the simple small fact that beneath it lie 111,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris from the Bikini and Rongelap atoll nuclear tests. The dome covers [...]

Nice Tee

Nice T-Shirt design from Threadless (via BoingBoing).

What the future holds?

The great debate

This has come up more than a few times during the course of my life. I am most definitely an “over” person (B). What about you? Let us know in the comments.

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    Tim: Welcome from Paris. Glad you liked the pics. For anyone interested they are at http://tinyurl.com/22kww88.

    Michel: Hi from Paris, France ! I love those pics of Cape Town in the 50's. Beautiful country (been there in 2000), great people!

    FromJoanne: Love these old photos Tim and will send this link to my SA friend in Toronto was trying to find more of them on yr site but had no success :( want to see new pix of CT mostly Green [...]

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