Unhelpful

Deputy Prime Minister Nicholas "Nick" Clegg says that talk about hordes of refugees swarming from the Continent in the event of the Euro collapsing is "deeply unhelpful".

If you're part of a government that allows 250,000 immigrants, mostly illegal, swarming into Britain every year, then the prospect of facing an even larger wave due to your continued support the entire European Empire project that any sane person can't see as anything less than barking mad, then someone pointing out your utter uselessness might be "deeply unhelpful".

But that depends on to whom it's unhelpful.  For the rest of us, it's as helpful as raising the alarm on the eve of invasion.

CCTV

Coping with life in modern Britain.

Cozy Dryer

Yanko Design (The DREADCO of the design world) proves that it's still on the cutting edge with this radiator that you can (drum roll) dry your clothes in front of!

Apparently, no one at Yanko has ever visited a school dorm or cheap hotel room.

The Adventures of Captain Marvel: Part 4: Death Takes the Wheel

NASA asks future explorers to respect historic landing sites

When the last American astronauts blasted off from the Moon in 1972, it seemed as if they were leaving behind monuments that would stand for all time. On a lifeless, airless satellite there would never be any scavengers or souvenir hunters, no wind to bury or wear down the abandoned spacecraft and artifacts, and no air to corrode metal. Even the footprints would still be there millions of years from now. Or so everyone thought. Now, with more and more nations and private organizations planning manned and unmanned missions to the Moon, NASA is worried that the Apollo landing sites and others could be endangered by the next wave of lunar explorers. To prevent this, the space agency issued a set of guidelines that politely asks everybody to keep their distance... Continue Reading NASA asks future explorers to respect historic landing sites

Watermelons

Just finished Watermelons, James Delingpole's excellent book on the "green" movement and how it has free-fallen from people concerned about clean air to an anti-Western, anti-industrial, anti-Capitalist, anti-human Socialist movement that has grabbed on to the fallacy of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming and turned it into a all-purpose bludgeon to force people to abandon civilisation and liberty in return  for... nothing, really.

Delingpole makes a multi-pronged attack on the movement including its origins, the duplicity of those behind it, the cod science that supports it and the ludicrous nature of  the precautionary principle.  He shows how it is possible to understand the scientific arguments and their flaws and that "don't worry your pretty little unqualified heads" is not an argument.  He also reveals what is at stake in this battle, for battle it is, and that if the worshipers of Blessed Gaia have their way, we will all suffer.  Most importantly, he explains how global warming is just one position that the Left will happily surrender when the time comes to fall back to a new bogey man.

Written in his usual irreverent style, Watermelons is must reading for anyone who needs to swot up on the arguments in a weekend.

The Facebook Caliphate

Mark Steyn looks at what happens when the West expects Facebook to civilise the barbarians instead of admitting that there is such as thing as civilisation and barbarism and that it's up to the civilised to do the civilising and failing that, keeping the barbarians at bay.

Mind the Map

The Guardian looks at the new London Transport Museum exhibit of transport artwork.

The Body in the Bog

Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future: Part 2: Divided We Fall

Click here to listen.

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

Not as cuddly as it seems

The World Wildlife Fund:  Dedicated to protecting Blessed Gaia by relentlessly hounding mankind back to the Dark Ages.

Lovecraft & Tesla: Together at last!

Sooner or later, you know they'd team up

Maybe he IS a Socialist

Gateway Pundit

The Day the Universe Changed: Part 2: In the Light of the Above

Lasers used to zap weeds into submission

Weeds are pesky things. They grow everywhere and, by definition, where they’re not wanted. Whether a large-scale farmer or a weekend gardener, everyone who has tried to raise crops has wished that there was a ray gun that could just blast the wretched things out of existence. Now, thanks in part to researchers from the Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, that frustrated daydream is closer to reality. Through the use of low-powered infrared lasers, the team has found a way to inhibit weed growth without harming neighboring plants, providing an alternative to expensive, hazardous and environmentally-damaging chemicals... Continue Reading Lasers used to zap weeds into submission

Happy Empire Day

Happy Empire Day

From

Ephemeral Isle

Break up the Euro

Speak clearly into the tree

Yanko Design (The DREADCO of the design world) does it again with its plan to promote tourism by bugging public places.

Because that worked so well for Intourist during the Communist regime.

Completely off the beam

If only they'd been chipped!

Science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon wants everyone on the planet chipped at birth.  Why?  Something to with,

Having such a unique barcode would have many advantages. In war soldiers could easily differentiate legitimate targets in a population from non combatants. This could prevent mistakes in identity, mistakes that result in the deaths of innocent bystanders.

I don't know where to start.  The first-catch-your-rabbit problem?  The utter impracticality of it?  The fact that a theatre of war is the last place it would work?  That maybe it would get more civilians killed?

I think I'll go for the fact that this is the fondest dream of every tyrant since the dawn of time.

UFO: Reflections In The Water

The gauntlet is thrown down

From the Metro:

Six-month deadline for UK to grant prisoners right to vote 

The government has been given a six-month deadline to enfranchise some prisoners after a landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.

Or the government could simply say that Britain is a sovereign state, that English Common Law is supreme and the ECHR can go chase itself.

Dragon is go

SpaceX's Dragon supply craft is finally on its way to the International Space Station.  The first private cargo carrier will deliver 1,148lbs of provisions along with a small,well-trained assault team and an orbital laser capable of destroying any target on Earth unless certain demands are met.

Or perhaps I've said too much.

Mirror comb

The mirror comb:  Because combining two things best used simultaneously into something that makes it impossible is always the best option.

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