April 1st The Darwin awards

Came across this site last year. Essentially it’s a list of people who died at their own hand, mostly because of their own stupidity. The Darwin part refers to their removal from the gene pool and the obvious inability ever again contribute to the gene pool.
“What goes up must come down.”

 

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Zimbabwe votes but still no announcement.

As the election results are released in a trickle, 3 for Mugabe 3 for the opposition, 9 for Mugabe 9 for the opposition, can we see a pattern emerging? What is he planning, a classic rig of the or an exit strategy? We can but hope it is an exit strategy and the sooner the [...]

An invitation for every flag-burning blogger to rant and rave.

Alexander also attacked the SNP government’s “national conversation” – the consultation on constitutional change – by describing it as “an invitation for every flag-burning blogger to rant and rave, blame everything on the English, and all at the taxpayers’ expense”.

Well done Wendy, with the one quote that you have managed to underline the fact [...]

Return of the body (parts) snatchers.

Urban myth, or the truth, well actually it’s the truth. Burke’s bones will be spinning in their glass case in the surgeons Hall in Edinburgh, over the news that he has lost his number one ranking as top dog resurrectionist. Unlike Burke and Hare no one is accusing Michael Mastromarino of murder, he has been [...]

Wendys Opening Speech What to Avoid

Ten things for Wendy to avoid while giving her conference opening speech.

Wearing red. (Makes you look like a corpse).
Picking your nose.
Attempting any jokes.
Letting Alex Salmond in the room.
Upsetting your speech writer.
Telling everyone at conference ‘the party is back on [...]

Scientists left unprotected by Whistleblower Act.

New scientist 29th of March 2008
Whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing by the US government will have much to cheer about when a bill protecting them from retribution is made law in the coming weeks – unless they happen to be scientists.
Last year, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act sailed through the House of Representatives and the Senate. [...]

Alex Salmond’s three questions for the SNP’s proposed referendum.

The Scotsman today headlined Alex Salmond’s three questions for the SNP’s proposed referendum. The suggestion is that the questions asked are, more powers to the devolved parliament, the status quo or total independence, the questions to be numbered one two three according to preference. Mathematically this could create a situation where a [...]

Don’t Mess Wi’ Oor Whisky or you’ll get

Spotted in an Easter road pub window and easily found on the net.

The question, GM crops good or bad please discuss.

We were scanning through the paper at the weekend when we came across an article about GM crops. This Scotsman article suggested that that was risk involved in growing GM crops, not quite sure if this risk was an economic risk due to other countries refusing to import GM crops. Or whether it [...]

Leith to get state of the art themed walkway.

Due to the number of complaints, the council has received concerning the fact that Leith Waterworld is only open at weekends and impossible to access due to roadworks and barriers strewn all over Leith, they have decided to create new State-of-the-art fun pleasure walkways on Leith walk. They intend to base this theme around Army [...]