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January 25, 2008

For Great Lulz

Is it wrong that I'm actually considering travelling across the country for this? I do have a V mask lying around somewhere. And it's Serious Business too, Sky News picked up the story of Anonymous versus Hubbard. In the past week, all kinds of Scientology literature and classified material has been leaked by Anonymous. Just today, a set of CDs for high level members were ripped and released. They were worth $900 each, according to the Church of Scientology. Not anymore! Really, I just love how normally Anonymous are a bunch of vaguely-paedophilic keyboard warriors, but they wreck all kinds of shit when they put their minds to it. They are the sexual predators you're warned about when you're in primary school.

January 21, 2008

We Don' Need No Steenkin' Badges

So apparently Madeleine McCann was abducted by Danny Trejo. I don't buy it. No way someone that cool would be involved in something as thoroughly retarded as the Case Of The Parents Who Did It. I'm also not convinced because the McCann's partner in crime friend Jane Tanner said that this is the man she saw, despite previously saying she never saw his face. 2007's comedy event of the year isn't doing much to continue its successful run.

January 16, 2008

Airy Fairy

Sure, it looks nice, but £1,200 for it? Not with a five hours non-swappable battery and the Americans getting it for £300 cheaper. I'd have liked to have seen an Apple take on the Eee PC, but what we got was a more expensive Macbook for people who buy small manbags. Mind you though, the new Apple TV stuff looks good. Makes the pissing contest between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray look more laughable than it already is.

January 09, 2008

I'm Lovin' IT

So the UK boss of McDonald's says that video games are the cause of childhood obesity. So that definitely wouldn't be anything to do with selling burgers which are 50% pure fat then, or using toys to lure kids in to buy said burgers. Nope. Definitely not. No sir.

January 02, 2008

Seven Up

By the beard of Blunkett, that was one fast year. My favourite moments included losing a stone in weight about a week after I finished University (Thanks a lot, stupid metabolism), graduating from said University and looking like a total tit in my gown/robe/dress/thing, seeing my favourite band twice, amassing a worryingly large comic book collection, amassing a worryingly large Nintendo collection, amassing a worryingly large World of Warcraft item collection, and being told by my best friend's girlfriend that if I hadn't introduced her to him, she'd be going out with me now. But enough about my beautiful disaster of a life; it's pithy comments about world events that you come here for. All six of you. So here's my worn-out run-down of the year's biggest events.

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Maddy World
My favourite kind of hysteria is the kind involving children. Apparently the nation loses all control of sanity and logic when something happens to an under-twelve. The only thing more baffling than why the public has spent half a year gibbering and wailing over one missing child when dozens disappear every day is why no-one suspected her killers parents from the off.

al-Qaeda's Amateur Hour
Not one, but two failed terrorist attacks, and the only casualties were the terrorists themselves. If I didn't know better, I'd think the whole thing was rigged by Rupert Murdoch for a new line of reality shows on Sky - sort of post-modern version of You've Been Framed, only instead of sending in home video of grandparents falling over, you get footage of terrorists burning to death in their own cars, taken on a camera phone.

The Year's Finest Trailer
Ohohohohoho yes. I've been waiting for over ten years for this to happen.

Happy New Year, you disgusting monsters.