The quick off the mark answer is categorically NO, however it seems to depend on how you phrase things as people are proposing magnet based engines seem to be able to run for 14 years…

People who claim perpetual motion is possible - whack jobs.

People who claim over-unity is possible - whack jobs.

People who claim that magnets can power things for a long time - less of a whack job.

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Cramp in both thighs during an orgasm springs to mind for no apparent reason… ahem

I’m not going to in-depth review Google chrome just yet, and not cuz I think its a newfangled piece of trash, but basically I havn’t played with it yet… because I think its a newfangled piece of trash. That said. The same buddy of mine that was going to install the new google OS on his Eee 901, came up with a cracker the other day.

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I was in town today and I saw a young girl who couldn’t have been more than 6 years old. She was hold hands with her mother and already wearing the shortest denim jean shorts, a tight three quarter length tee and, wait for it… high heels.

Commenting to the missus over my meatball marinara at how young parents are allowing their kids to grow up these days , LBC was commenting on compulsory sex education for 5 year olds.

What the hell is the world coming to.

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A friend of mine is going through a particularly hard time at the moment, not like his mother leaving him for a younger model or anything, no, but a project he is working on that should have been pulled months ago is really struggling. I think he may be coming out the other side though as he made a really cool comment I thought I’d share.

When this is all over, and hopefully I am not wearing a very close fitting white jacket, I will be proud in the knowledge that even if no one else knows, you and I will know that not one single thing went according to any known plan conceived by human kind… yet we beat it anyhow.

If anyone attacks this hai-koo between now and that comfy sweater wearing moment, hide the stapler.

Those of you who know me, know that I hate football (or soccer to you johnny foreigners). It’s true, I was picked on at school, always in goal and really shite at that. It’s still a game played by over paid tossers and supported in the majority by knuckle dragging wife beaters.

However, I just read a glorious story today. I may have to move to peru, as there may be as many as 8 fewer games to suffer this season.

GRRR!!!!!!

being the paranoid type, I use PGP encrypted disks for a lot of my data. It can slow playback of movies, but I found that a quad core 3GHz CPU and SATA II seems to remove most of the latency

Anyhow, due to a lack of Vista support in my free edition of 9.3, just over ago I purchased a pukka copy of their (not inexpensive) desktop software. Recently the bit that mounts disks broke and now I can’t access my sensitive data. Turns out it’s only the latest edition that is compatible with XP service pack 3. My options are to forget about my data, or pay to upgrade to the latest version, and by pay they really mean pay. I can purchase (at the full retail price) the regular edition, or get a discount on their Pro edition, which is still more expensive than the entry level edition.

Another interesting consequence is that my support account has also been cancelled, apparently the use of the word “extortion” is against their acceptable use policy.

This is a public safety announcement.

Dolphin loving is really not advised. True, Dolphins are among the mammals that have sex for fun, but with each other. They call it a blow hole, but please don’t try it as there is a muscle powerful enough to sever a leg… If you happen to be another bottle nose dolphin though…

http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/dolphin-blow-hole-job

It was the people being beheaded, it was their fault, they got in the way of the guillotine blade.

You can imagine the branding board. Hmm, if we blame the fishermen for the death of the dolphins, we’d have to do something about it, I know, lets blame the tuna for the way people hunt it.

Besides, all canned tuna is dolphin friendly… well, unless you throw a can actually at a dolphin, but generally a small chunk of a dead fish cannot hurt a dolphin - oh, sorry, I forgot, there is the choke hazard as well.

There is another interesting angle. Apart from all the turtles and other porpoises that are being caught instead of dolphins, what about the over farming of tuna itself. Tuna is being caught in unsustainably high numbers that soon we will have no tuna left to be friendly to dolphins with. What we need is tuna friendly tuna. It’s probably a good job Linda McCartney is dead or we would probably have more sawdust based products filling our shelves.

Hey, no dolphins were hurt in the writing of this item so that makes it dolphin friendly to.

Gone are the days when the BBC used to use simple words in clear received pronunciation, since it had to appeal to all classes. Now there is no class system any more (ahem) it seems they allow the ranting idiots to blather stupidity all over the place. I am no great lover of Jeremy Paxman, but he uses some pretty stupid words that even when you know the meaning does not necessarily mean you can understand the sentence.

For the lower class morons among us:

• Fawning: (verb) means to gain favour though flattery.
• Doggerel: (noun) means a comic verse of irregular measure.

Any clearer?

Fuck off Paxman.