www.paulnixon.org

SmellyPoop

OK. A little puerile. But this is a very comprehensive resource for those interested, even tangentially, in poop.

For example. Did you know why bird poop is white? Or if there is any way to prevent corn from coming out in your poop?

170 kph mountain bike crash

unbelievable

Question of the Day

Inspired by Dave..

Is Moira Stewart Pat St Clements (Pat Butcher from Eastenders) lesbian lover?

One thing that PC Users..

.. can do that Mac users can't.

Well, among other things, 'shut the f*ck up' apparently.

Very much on the mark, and not just about Apple and it's users

"Back in the late 90s, everyone used Real Player. Then those cocks at Real Network got greedy, and tried to get their application to take over your entire PC.."

Banksy

I'm not normally one for art per se, but this fella is a genius.

Here's a collection of some of his work.

Computer Science Rap

Entitled So much darma in the PHD.

Including

Your mom circulates like a public key,

Servicing more requests than HTTP.

She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME

Fantastic Online Toy

Hard to describe. Very good though.

Men

Oh dear. We're all a bit gay.

"Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face."

It's a fella for goodness sake.

It gets worse..

"Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well"

Intelligence and Religion

Essentially incompatible in my view.

Borne out in study after study; the more intelligent you are, the less likely you are to be religious.

Justice

I struggle to believe that this is true.

Three men, wrongfully convicted and jailed for 10 years, are having to hand back 25% of their compensation. To pay for "board and lodgings". Unbelievable.

Climate Debate

After the storm..

The Channel 4 documentary on climate change has stirred a lot of impassioned responses. The premise of the programme seemed to be that global warming is a pseudo-communist propoganda exercise against a capitalist existance.

This sort of stuff goes down well the the Telegraph and the Mail.

Whether true or otherwise, the program grossly and deliberately misrepresented the science, as you can see here.

Beautiful Game

By old favourites, Orinsal.

But why (oh why) can I not turn off or turn down the ruddy music - lovely though it is.

Flying

Once again I reiterate my confusion about environmentalists' obsession with flying.

This time it's flights to Newquay.

To cut a long story short, the relative carbon costs are

Train : 0.02 tons of CO2

Car : 0.08 tons of CO2

Flight : 0.1 tons of CO2

It doesn't make sense to me to focus on the relatively infrequent flights when surely there are bigger fish to fry.

Eurovision

B'jesus.

Surely the most puerile piece of eurowank ever produced. Our entry into the eurovision song contest.

The evening was salvaged by Wogan announcing the wrong winner at the end of the show and by Scooch's lead singer saying that there "is a gap in the market for pop music". He's mistaken. There is no market for this utter shite.

Google..

.. does currency conversions. I didn't know that.

Conservapedia

Saw this in today's metro, a brilliant wikipedia replacement I think you'll agree. Have a search on the word atheist and you'll see what I mean

Bush on Atheists

Thanks Al. This led to this little gem : George Booosh on atheists.

Sherman: What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are atheists?

Bush: I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community. Faith in God is important to me.

Sherman: Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?

Bush: No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?

Bush: Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists.

I think the highs used to be cocaine.

It is deeply depressing that the President of the most powerful country in the world is held in such thrall by bronze age fairy tales that he doesn't think that talking-snake deniers should be considered as citizens.

Freakonomics..

.. of boarding a bus.

If you haven't read the book then you probably should. Though I did find the endless droning on about names in the latter part of the book pretty tedious.

twittervision

I fear twitter is another massively popular website, like myspace, that I simply won't "get".

However, all the same, twittervision, seems pretty cool.

Land of the Free Part XVII

From the BBC

"US singer Justin Timberlake has been denied official recognition in his home state of Tennessee because of the racy titles of some of his songs."

And the titles that have caused offence? "SexyBack" and "Rock your Body".

A talibanesque level of puritanism.

Stephen Merchent

.. writes an article for the Guardian.

He's good.

"I come from Bristol, a city undergoing lots of redevelopment. They are choosing a new name for the city centre and I was excited because I'd heard the front runner was Merchant's Quarter. Naturally I presumed this was my reward for my hilarious TV work and for helping to finally put Bristol on the map. Imagine how horrified I was to discover it was actually Merchants' Quarter. It had nothing to do with me. It was a nod to Bristol's merchant trading past. Still, I reasoned, I could tell people it was named after me. No one in the west country understands apostrophes."

Archbishop of York

"The Archbishop of York has called on Britain to make a formal apology for the slave trade."

Is he sure?

Adobe

Very amusing demonstration of Adobe's technical skills.

Purity Balls

Wahey.

"In what is becoming a trend among conservative Christians in the United States, girls as young as nine are pledging to their fathers to remain virgins until they wed, in elaborate ceremonies dubbed 'Purity Balls.'"

..

"Many fathers at the ceremonies also slip "purity rings" around the finger of their misty-eyed daughters or offer them "chastity bracelets" and other jewelry that the girls can entrust to their husbands on their wedding night."

Sick, sick puppies.

20 things that will happen against Andorra

* Steve McClaren looks like this after a 2-0 win.

* Frank Lampard scores via a deflection off four players, beats his chest and Jamie Redknapp smugly informs us that he's silenced his critics.

* McClown makes a point of giving Wayne Rooney a very public hug or a manly clap on the shoulder, to prove that they're as close as Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams.

* Steven Gerrard sets up a goal from the right wing, thus proving he should be used out there rather than in his proper position.

* Aaron Lennon, ditto, left wing.

* England have 76% possession.

* During which time 76% of you fall asleep. Even if you're in the pub.

* Someone scores a free-kick, and we're informed no one misses David Beckham.

* Stewart Downing is brought on for Aaron Lennon in the 65th minute. Does little of note.

* Rio Ferdinand jumps on the back of the a goalscorer like they've just netted in the World Cup final against Brazil, rather than hit the second in a turgid match against an amateur side.

* Wayne Rooney is booked for dissent over a throw-in.

* Owen Hargreaves is named man of the match for containing the rampaging Andorrans.

* Star-struck Andorran players ask to swap shirts. Three move into Frank Lampard's.

* Half of the commentators' sentences begin "With the greatest respect to Andorra..."

* The rest inform us that Micah Richards is 'athletic', John Terry is 'brave' and there are so many England fans there "it's like a home game".

* Someone from the England camp tells us the win is a "statement of intent".

* Someone in the Russia camp dies laughing.

* Andorra have one easy chance after a ridiculous piece of England defending. They miss it.

* Steve McClown tells us that "someone who watches a lot of international football" says it's the best win over Andorra in March ever. Well, since 2002.

* Three journalists are blinded by his smile.

Pope

According to the Pope

Hell ???really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more???, he said.

Ha, ha. Yeah. He doesn't proffer any evidence, or reason to believe. But, hey, who are we to ask? We're not infallible after all.

Unbelievably he starts quoting the bible as if that supports his argument! I think I'll need something a bit more substantial than that for goodness sake.

Jesus Christ

Something, frankly, quite upsetting that i felt compelled to watch about 50 times.

Watch the video, it's depressing

Amusing cartoon

Titled "Why I get nothing done"

xkcd

Great cartoon.

Firefox

Firefox continues to be a mixed bag. Invaluable extensions (firebug!) and features just outweighing ongoing performance and memory usage issues.

Anyway, follow the link : Keywords. Very useful indeed.

I'm tired of the complacency of the firefox community. There are, and have been for months and years, issues with performance. I have come very close to deserting to internet explorer - and I never thought I'd say that.

The excuse that it may be extensions causing the unreliability does not wash. If it's an extension, firefox should be telling us which one and disabling it - not blindly using up all of my processor and RAM.

Grand Theft Auto IV

The trailer for GTA IV. If anything is going to convert me back to gaming, it'll be this.