My favourite pic so far

At New Year Morag took a photo of me and Julie. Which is now up over here. My favourite so far.

And now I'll stop revolting you all.

You may now proceed to feel sick

Bush attempts to pass legislation giving himself retroactive immunity for breaking the Geneva Convention:

Future Shock!

Oooh, I thought, wandering through the local Cartridge World store a few weeks back - I can pick up a 1GB USB Flash for a tenner. That's really good value!

Of course, I'd completely forgotten that prices drop incredibly quickly in the world of computing. So when I realised I was going to have to compromise on a solution for carrying my settings around with me I went and checked prices for sticks. And discovered that I could pick up a name-brand 4GB stick for £11.32.

Note to self - never buy hardware in a shop unless there's a damn good reason to think you might have to take it back.

I rather like this image

Explained (with season 3 spoilers) here. Cheers to matgb for the link (more on his post here).

Oh, and I'm _miles_ behind, so no spoilers for anything past season one in the comments!

The Making of a Suicide Bomber

The Guardian has a two part article on what makes people become suicide bombers - focussing on british citizens who ended up that way.

You can read the introductory article here. Very much worthwhile. I'm very glad that octopoid_horror pointed me at it.

Review of the week

Is johnbobshaun's marvellous AVP:Requiem review.

Here

It takes "reframing the narrative" to whole new places.

You can thank me later

Ashes to Ashes is the 80's set follow-up to Life on Mars.

You can see the trailer here.

If you haven't seen Life on Mars then don't click on it. Instead head straight to your media provider of choice and obtain said TV series. And then watch it all. Now.