Textbooks...Saudi-style.
The sooner these bastards run out of oil, the better.
Hurry up with the fusion reactor guys, because I can't wait to point at these bankrupted idiots and laugh....
One good reason not to see The Da Vinci Code.

Tom Hanks. Mullet.
....Need I say more?
Anyone who doubted the importance of this post needs to know that it's been picked up by the Pakistani media.
Take that naysayers!
Additionally, it seems that's not the only search term Pakistanis are searching for....
Oh, and we Australians enjoy our chicken sex, thank you very much.
Ever heard of a chicken feigning a headache?
Before they went their separate evolutionary ways, the ancestors of chimpanzees and people got up to plenty of, well, monkey business.
Moreover, this went on for about four million years.
The most detailed analysis conducted of human and chimpanzee DNA reveals that after an initial separation from a common ancestor, between five and six million years ago, the species continued interbreeding.
And to think you all told me it was a crime against nature!
Indymediawatch points out the challenge of a century from an Indymedia goon -
Show me a fascist post on an Indymedia page. I doubt you can.
Considering that's pretty much the point of the Indymediawatch blog, one must question what precisely the Indymedia users really think fascism is...
A mother has been arrested for allegedly helping her daughter and her friends make biscuits laced with a laxative for a teacher who had given one of the girls low marks.
What a plan! Didn't turn out that well though....
The prank went wrong though when the targeted teacher didn't eat any but shared them among the daughter's seventh and eighth grade classmates.
Four children fell ill.
Whoops.
Australia's gobbling up New Zealand, apparently.
Well, it could have been worse. I was tempted to bid for it on EBay.
I don't want to point fingers but, The Hell?.
Those lonely, lonely Pakis...
(more here)
Good news everyone! The Chinese can finally get their censored information in a quick, easy, online format!
China's biggest internet search engine has launched an online encyclopedia modelled on the US-based website Wikipedia, which is blocked by Beijing.
However, entries on Baidupedia, the service from Nasdaq-listed Baidu.com launched last month, are censored by the Chinese Government.
Searches conducted today for the banned spiritual movement "Falungong" or for "Dalai Lama" – in both Chinese and English – yielded no results, but generated the message: "The page cannot be displayed."
Baidu's chairman and chief executive Robin Li told Britain's Financial Times newspaper his online encyclopedia was modelled on Wikipedia.
But he said he was unaware Beijing had banned the Florida-based reference website.
"I certainly hope our encyclopedia will be the most authoritative one for any Chinese users," Mr Li was quoted as saying.
One might think that censorship kind of defeat's the purpose of Wikipedia, though... (Free online editable encyclopedia! As long as you don't go against what the Chinese government wants you to write!)
Congrats guys...but you still don't have a Chinese Wookieepedia.
So there!
Via Damian Penny, we discover that what Ford really needs to do in the US to restore it's market share, is start selling its Australian line.
Just bite the bullet guys. It's time for the whole world to start taking lessons in being Australian.
...well....as long as I don't have to buy the beer....
The President of Iran composed a rambling letter to the US, which, for the most part, isn't worth reading (although Powerline Blog does anyway).... it does, however, contain this howler:
"If Prophet Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ishamel, Joseph, or Jesus Christ (Peace Be Upon Him) were with us today, how would they have judged such behavior?"
Um....mate, you do realise that "Christ" is a distinctive appelation directly applied to Jesus by those who regard him as a divine figure, i.e. Christians?
It's not part of his given name, for Christ's sake.
For Muslims to call Jesus divine (which giving him the epithet "Christ" is) is fairly heretical.
On another note, Joseph a Prophet?
Wow. Apparently having your teenaged wife get herself pregnant by another entity is grounds enought to be declared a Prophet....must be easier than I thought...
Still not as bad as Adam, Mr "I'm dumber than a snake" himself. That's what you get with pilfering another religions religious figures, guys...
At least wait for the Anti-Muhammed to turn up!
UPDATE: Whoops! In my haste to mock someone's cherished beliefs, I inadvertantly fucked up and mixed Joey "Dad of Jesus" up with Joey "Son of Jake".
My geek license has been revoked and shortly I will no doubt go along to whatever horrible fate awaits me.
Regardless...both Joeys in question are fair inferior in their prophetic talents to this Joey. (PBUH)

(I was going to originally rag on Enoch, mainly for the "I can't get a date because all the fine sisters are fucking angels", but thought that was too easy a target. *Sigh*)
Chopper Read has his own boardgame.
Hmm....
The only Chopper Read book I've read was the picture book about that crippled boy having sex with the large breasted crippled gal.
Seriously.
Christopher Hitchens on Holland's shameful treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Worth a read.
On a similar topic, see the Daily Ablution on "Liberal" self-loathing. and Damian Penny's post on the same topic.
They've endured the heat, the dry wind, the boredom, and the insurgents, but this is too much...
McClymont sisters go to war

The Grafton-based country music sisters – Brooke, 24, Samantha, 20, and Mollie, 19 – have been asked to perform for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel in Iraq in December.
In other news, Zarqawi has just been spotted making a run for the Syrian border, screaming wildly...

Work still sucks, but I should be back to regular postings by the end of the week.
If the wait seems long, why not check out this new blog by a good mate of mine?
It's chock-full of such important topics and speaks for the blog's author's love of the Cronulla Sharks, computer shit, and David Bourke.
Plus, the "chin wag" itself is officially the best thing on the Internet.
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