Hi Jess! Thanks so much for hosting us all last night! The beer isn't ours (mine, Katie's or Ed's)...sorry!

Hey all, just wanted to wish you a happy new year. Wish I could've been at the new years party. Based on what was left it would've been an interesting night. I was driving through saskatchewan at the time. yay for 13 hr drives to winnipeg!!! I am just saying that I will be falling even further off of the face of the planet for the next while. I am going on my first trip out of the country since grade 10. off to the dominican republic I go. this'll be my first last and only correspondance until I return sometime next week. Hope the newyear is treating you all kindly! see you when I return.

Hey all - just to let you all know there was a ton of food/drink that got left here last night. I thought people might be most interested in these things:

-an unopened bottle of dark Barcardi rum (Beck?)
-an almost full (5 bottles) case of Miller Genuine Draft (Ed/Mary/Katie?)
-a long green tupperware full of fudge and other goodies (Alison)

If you want these things, or left something else consumable, let me know! Or if you just want to take some sweets off our hands - we have piles and Matt won't eat any of it....

Thanks everyone for coming last night and bringing munchies - we had a good time!

Possibly another game by Tay, couldn't tell but it is on Xgen's website.

Sentinels of Mijil Defend sectors of a computer against waves of sentinels before the computer is damaged and takes your energy to repair.

From the same people as below, the Battlestar Galacticast (warning: it's 17 minutes long, and may just remind you about the craziness that plagued season 3.)

A Copyright Carol:

The War on Terror is over!! ... In th UK:

The words "war on terror" will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country's chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.

Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless "death cult."

The Director of Public Prosecutions said: 'We resist the language of warfare, and I think the government has moved on this. It no longer uses this sort of language."

London is not a battlefield, he said.

"The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers," Macdonald said. "They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way."

I really love reading the news posts on Penny Arcade (when I know what the hell Tycho's talking about.) Something about paragraphs like this description of Vista really grab me:

More than anything else, I think it was installing Vista that made me hate PC gaming. The constant, system-level interruptions, the impaired compatibility, and most of all the savage kick to my framerate's exposed groin made me wonder what precisely in the fucking fuck I was doing screwing around with this onyx monolith. I knew I was just going to have to upgrade eventually (no), and I wanted to see if there was anything to this DirectX 10 thing (no), and I wanted to see what the Windows version of Live was like (a warcrime) so I bit the bullet. I shouldn't have. It was a bullet! That should have been my first clue.

To be fair to politicians of all stripes and nationalities, that isn't exactly what you would call a "real" interview. The interviewer is Bryan Dawe and the interviewee is John Clarke. Apparently they've done this bit for a number of years, where they parody a politician in an interview (without so much imitating the politician). You can find more recent stuff here (bearing in mind that they satirize Australian politics, so the frame of reference may not be there so much.)

Which isn't to say that you have to give politicians more credit than that, but at least I'll be able to sleep at night knowing they aren't that idiotic.

oh my...



if ever there was circular logic, it's in that video... and it amazes me what politicians think they can get away with saying, and not realise how stupid they sound...