Monday, June 13, 2005

Imagine...

...switching on the television to watch the news. You watch as your 16-year-old son is murdered on camera.

It happened to a Bosnian woman the other week.

Kind of puts a new perspective on the world, doesn't it?


Serbian TV broadcast a video filmed during the Srebrenica massacre (ten years ago next month), to convince Serbs that Srebrenica did actually happen. The following day, only one newspaper mentioned the footage on its front page, but the entire nation went into shock.

The week before the broadcast, a survey found that 50% of Serbs did not believe Srebrenica happened (8000 Muslim men and boys murdered, the worst European atrocity since World War II). Two thirds said that they believed Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb political and military leaders at the time, and the Hague's most wanted, to be heroes, rather than war criminals.

Carla del Ponte, the UN chief prosecutor, says that there are more videos to come, but they'll only be released to the public after they've been presented in court (chiefly, at the trial of Slobodan Milozevic).

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Clearing Out The Web Quiz Text File

I do web quizzes, and then can't be bothered going through the faff of posting the results up here. I end up saving them on my desktop in a .txt file called 'Web Quizzes'.

So, let's see what there is in here, after the last couple of months' worth of occasional quizzes:


a Knight Captain
You scored 7 Honor, 10 Justice, 1 Adventure, and 5 Individuality!

Some knights follow the orders given them. Some know when to improvise.
The second sort are the ones that grow to power, to become leadeers and
Knight Captains. Your sense of duty, honor and justice speaks that your
name should be amongst their ranks.

Get your squire, your banner, your armor and your sword. You're gonna do just fine




My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 38% on Ninjinuity
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 97% on Knightlyness
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 0% on Cowboiosity
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 41% on Piratical Bent
Link: The Cowboy-Ninja-Pirate-Knight Test written by fluffy71 on Ok Cupid



Sex is good!
You scored 63 %!
You like sex, a lot, but it's not everything. Your style is to have sex when you can but not let it become a priority.



My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
free online datingfree online dating
You scored higher than 12% on kinkiness
Link: The What sex style do you have Test written by naughtifaerie on OkCupid Free Online Dating



Old Fashioned Gent
Well, well well..... You scored 70%!

You not only know what to do to win a lady's affection, but you
understand why it works. You may be just a touch too clinical, though.
Don't always do something because you should, do it because you want
to. By investing yourself, you can reap the rewards of being the only
man in the room with women draped all over them.
Showing a girl a good time is only as effective as how she tells her
girlfriends about it. Think on that one.



My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 36% on Prince Points
Link: The Are you a Gentleman Test written by JubileeHannah on Ok Cupid



LiveJournal Username
The name of your zombie infested home town.
Your zombie killing weapon of choice.
How much do zombies scare you?
Oh noes!!11 A zombie! What do you do?
Blasting zombies left and right with a freaking twelve guage. What do you think?calephetos
Curled into a fetal position crying their eyes out.bodybag_pilgrim
Is pwning some zombies with Don't Stop Me Now playing in the background.calephetos
Is sitting at home watching CNN and eating ice cream.almighty_weasel
Get ripped to pieces by the zombies. Bummer.darkluke
Is the zombie king who you must destroy to end the zombie menace.darkluke
Number of zombies you decapitate.315
Chances you survive the zombie swarm.
64%
Quiz created by Kingcheapskate at BlogQuiz.Net
Fun Quizzes at Blog Quiz






For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the
way computers have enhanced our lives, read on...

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared
the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had
kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all
be driving
$25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press Release
stating:

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be
driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this
part):

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to
buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You
would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows,
shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could
continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause
your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would
have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would
run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would
all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal
Operation" warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you
out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door
handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn
how to drive all over again because none of the controls would
operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.