I played Angry Birds yesterday. Which makes this FEMEN update even more fantabulous, and more importantly, given the subject matter today, re-le-vant. Image via facebook.
I still got annoyed by some stuff though.
That’s multitasking for you.
Category: Why I Love The Interweb
Salvatore Iaconesi: Internet v2.0
A digital technology artist recently diagnosed with brain cancer has released his medical records in the hope that someone might be able to help him with a cure.
Salvatore Iaconesi cracked the proprietary code on his scans, notes and test results and published them on his website so that others can use them to “create a video, an artwork, a map, a text, a poem, a game or try to find a solution for my health problem“.
What a wonderful use of the collective consciousness that is the interweb. Hopefully, all the doctors aren’t too busy looking at porn to help him.
Take a look at Salvatore’s site. Perhaps you have something to offer too.
The X-Factor: Religious Ratings Boost
Image: VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/GettyImages.
Simon Cowell has taken a risk with his latest appointment to the X-Factor judging panel, but it’s widely agreed that Pope Benedict XVI is certain to provide the show with a much needed ratings boost.
David Cronenberg: This One Time, At Medical School
An idea is born. Image: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino.
Alright, Mrs Vanderpump, your scan is complete now, please stay relaxed for… HOLY SHIT! Mrs Vanderpump! What the hell… ?!
Dave? Have you been sneaking that damn cat into the CT machine again?
If you insist on knowing what really caused this fantastic photo opp, it’s here.
Communication Breakdown: My Week Without The Internet
Image via cheezburger.
When you consider that the human race survived for several thousand years without global connectivity, it hasn’t taken us long to forget how we managed before. A technological snafu this week gave me the opportunity to experience the full horror of a wifi-less world first hand, and let me tell you. I learned more about myself and the world in that short space of time than I do from my usual hourly rotation with Web MD.
It was almost as scary, too.
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Tony Thompson & Wladimir Klitschko: Laugh Now, Receive Head Injury Later
Image: REUTERS/Pascal Lauener.
Tony Thompson got the giggles during his face-off with Wladimir Klitschko at the Stade De Suisse yesterday. Thompson is due to fight Klitschko in a mandatory bout at the stadium in July – a prospect that shouldn’t provoke uncontrollable laughter.
Maybe he heard that Frank Warren’s opportunism regarding David Haye’s post fight press conference scuffle with Dereck Chisora last May has paid off.
I certainly allowed my head to drop when I heard. Onto my desk. Repeatedly.
Don’t Even Bother Trolling Samantha Brick…
Image via Daily Mail.
Not only is she totally impervious to logic, reason and reality, her husband has a massive gun.
Call her ugly now. Go on.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Just Run, Jump & Kiss On The Face
Image: thatswhatupnow.com
I’m soooo excited by this photo of a marine arriving home from active duty and leaping into the arms of his partner.
The outraged wailing and gnashing of teeth that will inevitably ensue from religious and right wing groups will be a joy to behold.
I’m just nipping out to get me some popcorn. Anyone want anything?
The Darwin Awards: Misogynist Sports Fans Category
Image via twitter.
This screen shot is apparently from a complaint form on ESPN USA.
One can only hope that it is a devious tactic employed by the staff at ESPN to filter out the idiots in the viewing population. The option is clicked, the IP address is stored, and a troupe of pre-menstrual ESPN presenters (female and male) go round and issue a good kicking to the fool in question.
Probably not though.
If you are unfamiliar with the brilliant Darwin Awards website, check it out here. You won’t be sorry.
Stephen Hester: Happy Hunting!
Stephen Hester in his other office as Master of the Foxhounds at the Warwickshire hunt. Image via socialistunity.com.
RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester has waived his million pound bonus because he “does not wish to become a pariah“.
According to BBC Radio 5Live, Hester, whose decision to reject the bonus had nothing to do with RBS chairman Philip Hampton waiving his, hates this photograph of himself in a big hat on horseback and is tired of the media using it in their coverage.
Out of respect for Hester, and in homage to Private Eye’s running ‘Andrew Neill in a vest gag‘, I therefore intend to publish it in a variety of irrelevant contexts whenever possible.
You should, too.
Kelly Welles 