You got to love cats. They have it sussed. Food, the comfiest chairs. and apparently they exploit owners by purring

Rest in peace, Simon Vinkenoog [Dutch blog w/English option], poet, friend of artists like Karel Appel, translator of Beat Generation figures like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, psychedelic enthusiast and "weed ambassador" of Amsterdam, and author of such guides to hip living as How to Enjoy Reality. One of the European jazz-loving proto-hippies who made the '60s swing and mentored several generations of culture hackers, though he was never widely known in the US.

The world just got a shade darker. Again.

From Simons' Website


Thus the mourning advertisement sounds which will stand today in the Parool. If one thing has become clear in these has expired summons, then is that, however, the overwhelming quantity people for whom Simon of meaning have been and will remain. For this reason everyone is welcome of this delicious man personal farewell come take. He is of our all. Did not adress its necessary, because we know all which he was and what he has meant for the world.
The travelling box will be open, Deo Volente, so that one him can small attentions which on its last travel will accompany slip him. Also can become on the travelling box signed and which called feels itself the dead can whisper of course something in the ear. To be friends bandsmen again for him game, lustre to what they want give him, in music is possible that improves still then with words. It will be come and, up to the moment that are three sons Robert, Alexander and Arthur, with Derrick mount man, Joep Bremmers and René francs from Antwerp - friends with whom he has shared the last years of its life intensely - Simon to its last rustplaats will bring. Everyone can throw symbolic schepje sand on the travelling box and for my geestesoog to see I eventually a mount arising, covered under a sea of flowers.

Ever Simon have given that to know he would want disappear kindest on a fire battery in Ruigoord of this world and for this reason we address there a joy fire to inform the sky of its arrival.

If there wasn't any proof that things ar going way to mad in the world, then there is now.

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MSNBC ran a story last week about a student who was prosecuted, maybe rightly, for altering a set of barrels. From the traditional barrel formation to this fearsome creation



This maniac MUST be stopped! LOL

Colin Bean was Private Sponge in Dads' Army. Although not a fantastic part, he was often called upon for the more physical business when the other members were too infirm.

You know how your washing machine uses loads of water? Okay. Rephrase. You know how your Mums' washing machine uses loads of water? This is a dandy report from the Telegraph about a machine which uses but one cup and gets the same results. How can this be? What deal with the devil have indesit done now?

There is no one in the media, save probably for John Snow, who is so doggedly determined to get answers as Jeremy Paxman. So they tuck him away on Newsnight where they think he can't offend...and yet...

First time in ages I have typed Domino without Pizza. Yes, fats came out of hiding - and it's something substantial to hide Fats, at a concert at LA at the weekend

Apparently in Japan they have a problem withpeople getting married. So much so, women are now looking for devices which will give them some idea of the perfect husband. Including this little beaut

Aggregators are big business or soon to be, this is one of the best news aggregators out there.

Here's an article form the truely awful Daily Mail, probably the most bigoted, two faced crap rag in teh newspaper industry, on what could be the worlds' oldest woman.

Although they are probably accusing her of scrounging off the state and she should go out and get a job or go back to where she came from etc etc

So do I and millions of others and you can wade in here, deep into controversy

Men are not the only ones who are downgrading their ambitions, Women are also having problems.

Weird lights above Manhatten?

Even the trannies are having issues

As web.tv discovered

I have no idea what a gnook is, who is it, what they are, what they represent. All I know is they have an endless habit of placing a 'n' after every word which begins with 'g'.

Gnerds.

There's a great character for ya.

Maybe this sort of condition - by which I mean the amounting sadness - is genetic? Who knows. Sylvia PLath wrote some pretty good but rather bleak poetry.

The bank of America? Based on what, exactly?

Twitter is one of the highlights of the year, with an enormous growth of 1082% per day. But those who are on there seem to forget that the people they are writing about can actually read what they put in the timeline...whoops

The secret of who really wrote the new autobiography of Tarzan's chimpanzee pal Cheeta is out. More>>

BNP bosses used a Polish Spitfire to front a campaign calling for Eastern European immigrants to be barred from Britain. More >>

A Hertfordshire-based firm has launched the ultimate posh cat flap for pampered pussycats. More >>

Expensive.

A Buckingham Palace footman caused £60,000 damage when he spilled a trolley of drinks on a carpet that had only just been laid. More>>

A gang have been branded Britain's worst burglars after drilling their way into an empty office next door to a bank.

The thieves had hoped to break into the Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Poynton, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, reports the Daily Telegraph. More>>

AMD are the main competitors to Intel, since the demise, in my opinion wrongly, of Apples 'G' range. However, in the last day or so, AMD have mentioned they're claims about power usage to the CPU may have been...um...well, optimistic. Or possibly fictional.

There is a Miss <insert placename> who actually intends to make something positive in the world. Heads up and roar for Miss Virginia.

A Liverpool motorist was stopped by a police officer and questioned - for laughing at the wheel of his car.
More >>

A burglar with a cold was caught after he broke into a house in Portsmouth - because he dropped his handkerchief. More>>

51-Year-Old Denise Delgado-Browne In Stable Condition At St. Barnabas Hospital More>>

One year after Wisconsin created a state brand, officials are announcing a new logo and theme to go with it. More >>

Police are seeking a man who duped a teller and stole $90,000 Sunday afternoon by posing as the owner of a currency exchange in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. More >>

A man told his boss he was leaving his job by writing a resignation letter on a cake.

With the launch of discovery last night, NASA is holding some press conferences regarding the mission throughout its' duration. Yes, they are very dull and boring, but sometimes you pick up on some interesting science. If you are still awake.

My God...time does NOT fly when you watch these guys.

Ron Silver, the activist and GOP member, has died.

Jade Goody has gone home.

Although I don't feel any particular emotion for her, or indeed any animosity, I think it's an awful thing to happen to anyone, esp when kids are involved.

I have no idea how to spell the guys' name and frankly I can't be arsed looking it up. But the bloke who did "I'm Slim Shady" has had some bad news in teh last 24.

Seriously, this is disturbing. Do not read if you worry a lot.

Pants. $69. Deal or No Deal?

Some of the best pictures from Reuters in the last hundred years or exposures or something

This is an interesting bijou article about how first impressions are formed in the neural complex of your synapses and the subsequent farting in the lift

Weird Asia News had a story over the weekend about a watch which is over 4,000 years old and as yet has not featured on Bid.tv

But then...what do you expect?

You can not get Obama action man type figures. I kid you not.

I know you are now thinking "How can I avail myself of this brilliant value for money prestige item?" Well...

The BBC website is one of those monoliths which boasts over two hundred thousand pages, four of them not mentioning Jonathan Ross.

Some of the science pages are great, and this is a cool little mini-web psychology test

It must be pretty boring being a security guard. You walk around a building all night. Nothing happens. Go back. Sit down. Watch the corridor on a monitor. Get up. Walk around. Come back. Sit down.

Of course, that's always assuming you don't have things to occupy your time. The worst thing is to be found dead, because it indicates a robbery. Or something more sinister. Being found in a WET SUIT and wearing a GAS MASK in teh toilets probably des't bode well.

Although this didn't really make the point they intended, methinks

From the Daily Mail. Who else?

Well, there's a babe magnet.

It's apparently true. Although I would imagine the reception and speeches were somewhat shorter than expected.