Well, I absconded from work a bit early this evening and went down to the Punters to see some bands, for the first time in a while. Then was a rawk band named Dead Sorority, which didn't do that much for me. Finally, Sir came on and played a set of their trademark kind of hypnagogic cabaret.
Sad fact is, there's nothing like war or inter-tribal conflict to motivate human endeavour.
After being voted off the UN Human Rights Commission and Narcotics Control Board, the US throws a hissy fit and threatens to stop paying its dues . And then, reminded that they haven't paid their dues for years, amends this to a threat to forget about paying overdue UN dues, of which it was going to generously pay half. Such are the privileges of being the World's Leading Nation. Unfortunately for them, all psychiatrists contacted have thus declined, because of this thing called the Hippocratic Oath. A BBC piece on the recent Norwegian RFC1149 test , in which Internet traffic was carried by carrier pigeon.