Surveillance society

From the article:

We are already a "surveillance society". We are, for the time being, fortunate that the full potential for its abuse is constrained by the pluralist democracy in which we live. However, we do not have to look back very far in history to imagine the use to which such snooping could be put.

My poor motorcycle

And on a slightly less-hee-larious note:

So there I was this morning, overtaking one of our lovely London black cabs, when he decided to execute a summary U-turn (as they are wont to do).

Landed on my feet. Poor 'Hayley' (my beautiful Suzuki Hayabusa) had a bad day though. One of the new exhaust cans I finally fitted 3 weeks ago (after my accident last year) will have to be replaced. Headlight's broken out of its mountings, smashed indicator light, cosmetic damage on both sides, and the sheared electrical loom (i.e. a bunch of sliced wires) took the RAC man a while to figure out why she wouldn't start...

At least I was able to sit in the garden, drinking too many London Prides in the sun whilst I spent the remainder of the workday booking estimates and insurance claims...

This commute is going to kill me one of these days. In case anyone's counting, that's 4 accidents in 3.5 years.

Laughed until I cried

You have to read this.

Tsuriel Raphael, the Israeli ambassador to El Salvador, had to be recalled because he engaged in “conduct unbecoming of a diplomat.” ...

Was this terrorism - an assault against the Jewish state? Was Osama bin Laden involved?

How I only wish. I’d love for nothing better than for Islamic extremists to set aside their exploding shoes and suicide belts, and wage war against Israel using ball gags and dildos instead.

I prefer my motorcycle

From CNN:

TOLEDO, Ohio (CNN) -- The father of an Ohio college baseball player who died Friday in a Georgia bus crash said Sunday his son "died doing what he loved"

Riding the bus?

I wasn't sure before, but now I'm definitely going to hell.

Super rabbit donkey shocker

Stop me if you've heard this one before: An Irishman and his donkey walk into a hotel, and the Polish receptionist says...

It's not a joke. It's a news story:

Receptionist Irina Legova said that Mr McCarney had told her that the donkey was a breed of "super rabbit" which he was bringing to a pet fair in the city. The court was told that the donkey went berserk in the middle of the night and ran amok in the hotel corridor, forcing hotel staff to call the gardai.

McCarney was found in the room wearing a latex suit and handcuffs, the key to which the donkey is believed to have swallowed.

He was charged under the "Unlawful Accommodation of Donkeys Act". You can't make this stuff up.

Or, maybe you can. :-)