Dull Men

In the UK (November 2024) there was a TV show called James May & The Dull Men's Club .....

1936 Beer Can (From a collection).

 .... hosted by ex-Top Gear presenter James May (as suggested by the title Duh!), which is actually rather entertaining.

Password Control

Cyber security against three malicious states (Russia, China, and North Korea ... the 3 dictatorships most active in the Cybersphere) is a big thing in the increasingly beleaguered West .....

Password Quality Can Be Poor

So every country has a national Cyber Security agency in one form or another, but often they are not employing the best of the best (unlike the opposition).

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

While perusing the Web for current news stories ....

Should Vigilantes Guard Churches?

... I came across this disturbing little quote from Don Gaetz, a Florida state senator. 

Batty Deaths

When we think of migrating animals .... 

Migrating Bats

.... we usually think birds such as geese and ducks.

Is That An Otter In Your Pants?

Two strange tales from the world of Human animal interaction ....

Ducklings In Underpants

An arsonist in Melbourne was hunted by the police after starting several fires in the south-east of the city.

A.I. Evil

I suppose it was only a matter of time ....

Real Or Fakes - Its Hard To Tell

 .... before criminals and others with bad intentions really latched on to the uses of A.I. 

Nasty Box Of Tricks

 In May 2019 there was an unusual on-line tech auction ......

Dangerous Laptop

.... in which a 2008 Samsung NC10 Windows Laptop was sold for £1m ($1,286,540.00) to an undisclosed/unknown buyer.

Wrong Treatment

There is a belief amongst some in the United States, that an electric shock on the bite kills the snakes venom after a bite .... 

Rattle Lip

 .... this idea originated in 1984, from Dr. Ronald H. Guderian, a missionary doctor in Ecuador who believed that shocking a bite would neutralise the venom. It caught on in Ecuador, after some people claimed it had worked for them.

The Destroyer Of Knowledge

Trump vult ignorantiam per Civitates Foederatas regnare .... 

CIA World Factbook - Website Cancelled

Which is a fancy way of saying that Trump apparently wants ignorance to reign across the United States ....

Blowing Up Beavers

Beavers will dam any stream or small river they can ....

Tannerite Explosion

 ... but not all their neighbours like it when they do.

The Empire Grows

Over the last 100 years, Britain went from having the biggest empire the world has ever known .....

The Pink Bits Were British Empire

 ... to being a small overcrowded island, north of the European continent.

Acid Comments

Theofylaktos Kombos was a Greek Orthodox priest ....

Theofylaktos Kombos - Ex Priest

 ..... who was facing a disciplinary hearing, after being caught with 18 gram of cocaine hidden near his genitals.