I was a regular reader of Viz for several years when it first came out (it’s a bit like Mad Magazine wearing bovver boots) . I haven’t seen it for about 20 years and was happy to find that it still makes me laugh out loud.

Hey - Pompey are still in top three. I used to go watch them with Kev when they were declared “the worst team ever to play in the top division”.

From the Letters page of The New York Times:

History will say, with unforgiving clarity, that you, Mr. President, started a war without justification, without world support, without understanding and without adequate planning, resulting in the deaths so far of more than 2,900 American servicemen and women, the wounding of more than 20,000 service members, the uncountable deaths and maiming of Iraqis, the destabilization of the region and the loss of the world’s good opinion.

How many transformers do you have in your house? Too many probably.

How come, 50 years into the electronics age, they still don’t run 12v DC alongside the 115v AC?

Imagine how many of those power supplies you could throw away.

These three circumstances…

1. My company is moving office today so I’m working from home but have no access to any of the resources I need to actually do work
2. I am exhausted from the combination of an illness that has lingered way to long and working crazy hours on a super-secret project
3. The God Delusion has arrived

…have conspired to convince me to put in a little undertime (don’t tell my boss).

I promised myself that I would resist the urge to quote everything Dawkins says but my resolve only lasted to page 65. This one was irresistable.

If it’s a theologian you want, they don’t come much more distinguished. Perhaps you don’t want a theologian.

I just received The Brights bulletin which has some useful suggestions for when someone wishes you a “Merry Christmas”.

Here’s what I like to respond:

Merry Christmas!

I absolutely cannot stand the anemic “Happy Holidays”. I am firmly with Bill O’Reilly on that one.

All part of being a cultural Christian, I guess.