flambingo

brighton evening argus

what bollocks. the argus has decided to charge, of course they aren't obliged to let us read their content free but £60 per year? to read it in PDF? thats half a licence fee to read the local paper in an inconvenient format.

the forums

its a pity the BBC local news is so shit.

two plans for the blackrock redevelopment

the brighton arena and the spa and winter garden.
black rock is a hideous hole, a mess of junctions and flyovers under which crouch ungenerous executive red brick quayside apartments and warehouse shaped franchised lesiure bunkers. drive throughs and factory outlet shops full of floral pottery and golfing goods. a bomb would be an improvement. but perhaps not a state of the art national centre of sporting excellence.

i must admit i much prefer the spa and winter gardens, it's a return to the original development of brighton from a fishing village to a place for promenading and taking the waters. and it re-establishes an architectural connection to the kemp town development, a connection that the marina development totally disregarded. the RH partnership seems committed to extending the volks railway, a splendid piece of victorian engineering - the first electric railway and now rather pointless....it doesn't go anywhere except the marina development and thats as inviting as milton keynes. but its only the inside of the development thats like that, its fragmentary and uninviting with the measly public space available made of ersatz 'village' squares. the beach the other side, black rock proper, is strange wild rock flats and rock pools under the sheer white cliffs. the breakwater itself is as impressive as any castle...a huge row of concrete barrels generating impressive smashing waves. and theres the boats - boats are just good. at first glance the winter gardens at least looks like an attempt to give a unified shape to some of it.

no WMD

"No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq by the group tasked with looking for them, according to a Bush administration source who has spoken to the BBC."

climping

we went to climping beach to drink tea and eat jam donuts.

supply side jesus

the gospel of supply side jesus

adult happy meal

the infantalisation of the american adult is proceeds apace

"Instead of Happy Meal standards like a burger and a toy, the new Go Active meal will include a salad, an exercise booklet and a pedometer meant to encourage walking."

communing with david blaine

through the medium of dance

two articles from haaretz

from haaretz (center left isreali newpaper)

time to act
"They (the sharon government) all know that every liquidated individual will have a replacement, but they are not fighting only terrorism, and their strategic goal is not a peace based on compromise but the total submission of the Palestinians. From their point of view, the war will not end until the day when the Palestinians accept unquestioningly Israel's rule in the territories."

The glittering edge of the boot
"Time and again, every day and every hour, we see how we have turned our children into soldiers in hobnailed boots."

welcome home milo!

welcome home milo!

splendid facts

spendid facts from IWOOT.

Abdul Kasem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.

The English Channel is two feet higher on the French side, due to centrifugal force.

how much is your soul?

Dear Sinner,

Flambingo has had their soul valued at £14689 which means 62% of people have a purer soul than him/her.

To find out the current monetary value of your soul click here.

that ejjit david blaine

is, according the the evening argus, fifty years late for the very exciting fasting in a big glass box thing.

51 years ago in Brighton, fellow New Yorker Jack Wafer starved for almost twice as long in a glass case on display to the public.
(owing to the pain in the arse argus set up this will only work for a week)

hello milo!

operation today, home at the weekend.
milo displays the stoicism we expect from our future world-president-pianist-astronaught.

communique from Subcomandante Marcos

the text of a speach delivered to protesters at Cancun by Subcomandante Marcos

"In the complex equation that turns death into money, there is a group of humans who command a very low price in the global slaughterhouse. We are the indigenous, the young, the women, the children, the elderly, the homosexuals, the migrants, all those who are different. That is to say, the immense majority of humanity.

This is a world war of the powerful who want to turn the planet into a private club that reserves the right to refuse admission. The exclusive luxury zone where they meet is a microcosm of their project for the planet, a complex of hotels, restaurants, and recreation zones protected by armies and police forces. "

milo in peril

milo (brand spanking new human) has been whisked off to another hospital for an operation.
*gulp*

i am a fairy godlessmother

milo wheeler is a day old (pictures soon), what with my other godlesscharge, the beautiful ada, i have the raw materials for a race of superhumans.

contraceptives (for men)

from the utne reader: finally a contraceptive injection for men.
"The injection coats the vas with a gel that has a negative and positive electrical charge. As sperm cells, which also have electrical charges, pass by the gel, the opposite charge ruptures the cells' membranes."