Wow, “The world’s highest road bridge is due to be inaugurated in southern France by President Jacques Chirac before opening to traffic later this week.” Check out the photo here and on the BBC site, very cool!

Trust the Japanese to come up with this one. A company called Trane KK has release a product for single men, a woman’s lap – made out of foam. Seemingly “Single men find this soothing,”. This is quite similar to the other product which has been on the market for the past year, the “boyfriends [...]

I haven’t covered much Norn Iron topics in a while even though the negotiations are all over the news these days because, to be honest, the whole thing would bore the tits off an elephant*. Anyway the following just caught my attention: “The Catholic Primate of Ireland has said that an alternative to photographic evidence [...]

Blimey, the Former Pantera guitarist Darrell ‘Dimebag Darrell’ Abbott was shot dead at a concert yesterday. They (their new band Damageplan) had just started their set when some bloke stormed on stage, shot the guitarist 5 or 6 times before turning the gun on others. A policeman then shot the gunman dead.

I thought this was a bit crazy. “A father who was banned from his family home for six months after smacking his son in public has been allowed back after admitting common assault.” The man in question smacked his son on the backside once but was seen by a policeman and arrested. The slap certainly [...]

I was on the Mozilla Development site today (or more specifically ‘Gaeilge‘) and noticed that they have a Scottish theme online. “St. Andrews day today isn’t it?” thought Maca. Anyway under their logo they have the slogan “Spot the sassenach”. “Hmm ‘sassenach’ – interesting word” thought I, “not unlike our own ‘sasanach’ meaning ‘invading imperialist [...]

Lycos have come up with a very clever way of getting back with spammers, by hitting them where it hurts, in their pockets. By downloading and installing a special screensaver “that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail” Lycos hopes to drive up the bandwidth costs of [...]

Interesting look at a few USB gadgets on the market. Not that I don’t already have enough USB devices but I like the look of those disco lights.

“THE Irish language is set to become the 21st official language of the EU”. Just spotted this in the examiner this morning and haven’t yet seen it in other sites. Looks like the EU have accepted Ireland’s request to have Irish as an official working language!

Un-friggin-believable… In Plano, Dallas, USA, a woman cut off her 11 month old baby’s arms. The baby not surprisingly died a while later in hospital. What kind of a twisted fuck would do such a thing!?!?