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Sunday, 14 April 2013
quote [ Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who has been in a semi-conscious state since a 2008 car accident, died early Saturday morning, his family announced. ]
[music] [by eggboy@9:00amGMT] [+10 Informative] [11 comments] |
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
quote [ In November, the Syrian government presented a list to the UN Security Council of 143 positively identified foreign citizens from 19 countries that died while fighting government troops. Since then the number has risen steadily and countless others have gone unidentified. ]
An Aussie bricklayer is killed fighting in Syria.
[politics] [by eggboy@2:55amGMT] [+6 Interesting] [23 comments] |
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012
quote [ The right-wing politician seems genuinely surprised by the news — and offers EU funds and a possible EU job to Ambrus to hush it up. ]
I get the most glorious schadenfreude whenever one of these right wing pollies gets found out.
[politics] [by eggboy@1:39amGMT] [+10 Funny] [27 comments] |
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Saturday, 28 July 2012
quote [ Cryptocat is an encrypted web-based chat. It’s the first chat client in the browser to allow anyone to use end-to-end encryption to communicate without the problems of SSL ... For Kobeissi, that means non-technical people anywhere in the world can talk without fear of online snooping from corporations, criminals or governments. ]
Lebanese-Canadian creates a secure private chat client, still a work in progress. What do you think?
[sci&tech] [by eggboy@3:51amGMT] [+10 Good] [21 comments] |
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Monday, 11 June 2012
quote [ “The Holy See is surprised and concerned at the recent events that Professor Gotti Tedeschi is involved with,” said a Vatican statement issued Friday. “We have faith that the prosecutors and Italian judicial system will respect our sovereignty—recognized internationally—with regard to these documents.” ]
Woo, news that re-enforces my view that they're a bunch of evil corrupt ticks, gimme more.
And the good guy's called Gotti, this is marvelous. I'd read the paperback on a train. [mafia game] [by eggboy@8:15amGMT] [+10 Interesting] [24 comments] |
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Thursday, 19 April 2012
quote [ Space exploration company Planetary Resources will be unveiled in a conference call on Tuesday, April 24th. ]
I love me some wild speculation.
[sci&tech] [by eggboy@3:07amGMT] [+5 Interesting] [28 comments] Perhaps Prometheus is taking viral advertising a little too far. |
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Friday, 2 March 2012
quote [ Next time you watch a military documentary, ask yourself why only 3 or 4 men are ever interviewed from a unit. The answer?
The rest of them are like me. ] Brutally honest.
[games] [by eggboy@11:23pmGMT] [+10 Interesting] [90 comments] |
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Saturday, 18 February 2012
quote [ Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but went on to fight Nazi forces during the Second World War. ]
There's not much else on this, what do ya reckon. Seems legit?
[by eggboy@12:21amGMT] [+3 Funny] [24 comments] EDIT: Ah fuck it nevermind, bullshit. I'll either come up with some porn shortly or you can downvote to oblivion. Have a nice day. |
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012
quote [ “Hopefully, all three projects will succeed, and then we’ll enter a new era of science and maybe cooperation,” ]
After 2 decades of drilling they better find something cool, and not the Thing, don't bring that back.
[sci&tech] [by eggboy@8:32pmGMT] [+5 Interesting] [7 comments] |
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
quote [ "Shell says 40,000 barrels were spilled and production was shut but we do not trust them because past incidents show that the company consistently under-reports the amounts and impacts of its carelessness," ]
As if Nigeria wasn't bad enough already. No, we don't need to regulate these guys.
[sci&tech] [by eggboy@11:19pmGMT] [+9 Informative] [17 comments] |
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