`While they preached charity and love on stage at Live8, the celebrity backstage area was all about warring egos.
Major-league musicians were crammed, along with a host of celebrities major and minor, into an area of only 150 square feet – leading to the inevitable trodden-on toes and bruised feelings.’
There’s something about being famous that rots your brain, I think. The only thing that was any good was Pink Floyd. 🙂
`Nick Mason revealed how the band ‘eyeballed each other’ as they prepared for their first gig in 24 years ‘in a slightly alarming way’ but compared the reunion to ‘riding a bike’. Dave Gilmour, meanwhile, said it was ‘a bit like sleeping with your ex-wife’. Both ruled out any further reunions.’
`One of the purposes of this this page is to make pyrotechnics as a hobby more accepted and liked. Another reason is to shift some people’s interests from making only loud bangs to more interesting and effectfull pyrotechnics. Furthermore, I hope that this page can provide beginners in pyrotechnics a safe start by providing some practical information. I required quite some time finding the information I needed and hope to save other people some time. Finally, there are some sections on miscellaneous pyrotechnics related subjects I found interesting.’
A shockwave animation of a strange Japanese hobby.
And by “Japanese hobby” I mean “presumably some form of sexual assault to the rest of the world”.
`now i’ve got that feeling once again
i can’t explain, you would not understand
this is not how i am..’
(80meg .wmv)
`An extraordinary statement by the US government has sent shockwaves around the internet world and thrown the future of the network into doubt.
In a worrying U-turn, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has made it clear it intends to retain control of the internet’s root servers indefinitely. It was due to relinquish that control in September 2006, when its contract with overseeing body ICANN ended.
The decision – something that people have long feared may happen – will not only make large parts of the world furious but also puts ICANN in a very difficult position. [..]
But what is most disturbing about Gallagher’s presentation, is how it endlessly refers to the president. The first slide has a picture of George Bush. The second begins “Thanks to the president’s policies, America’s economy is strong”. The next slide is “The president’s broadband vision”. The next slide leads with a quote from Bush and two pictures of him. And on and on it goes. There is barely a single slide that doesn’t quote from the president.
Clearly the internet has entered the Bush administration’s vision and the resulting DoC statement – which boldly tells the rest of the world that the US will continue to run the Internet and everyone will just have to lump it – is very in keeping with how the US government is currently run.’
‘Just started bustin’ rhymes, finally found my groove,
Now the SS on my jacket stands for super smooth..
And when I step into the clubs you know I’m steppin’ with style,
I raise my left hand, party people say heil..’
(7.7meg Flash video)
see it here »
