amusing myself

blue security wiggles get wheels

DogfightAtBankstown - July 9, 2008 - 2:23am

It looks like the Chinese were as impressed as I was with French police on inline skates, so much so that they decided to go one better.

he's an artiste, you know

DogfightAtBankstown - July 6, 2008 - 8:40am

The artist says: "My drawings are made totally freehand - large, then
shrunk (if photographed)." "At low tide on wide beaches Jim searches
the shore for a wave tossed stick. After finding a good stick and
composing himself in the near and far environment Jim draws-- laboring
up to 7 hours and walking as many as 30 miles. The resulting sand
drawing is made entirely freehand with no measuring aids whatsoever.

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shock!

DogfightAtBankstown - June 28, 2008 - 6:14am

North pole ice cap can disappear!

Horror!..

An ice-free North Pole would rob polar bears of their habitat...

What good news:

... and would
also open the region to oil and gas prospecting, previously impossible
through the thick ice cap.

More energy sources?  Cheaper petrol?

Bring on global warming.

there are some smart people

DogfightAtBankstown - July 6, 2008 - 7:49pm

Down in Mandeville LA.

Obama_at_drells

The other side of the sign at Drell's Descants

anglicising

DogfightAtBankstown - June 29, 2008 - 11:54pm

Those who follow religion news would know that this week, that a large group of Anglicans met in Jerusalem ahead of the decadienial gathering of Anglican bishops in Lambeth to respond to the dangerous drift towards liberalism within the Anglican Communion.  The Jerusalem gathering was hastily conceived late last year and had
the rather aweful acronym of GAFCON - the Global Anglican Future
Conference. Amongst the organisers was Sydney's Archbishop Peter Jensen Read more »