The Perfect Warning Sign
August 18, 2008 (No Responses)
THIS WARNING sign, for the Museum of Sex in New York, is possibly the most perfectly appropriate sign I’ve ever seen, and given that I’m heading to NYC next month I think a visit to this place is now an absolute must! Read more
Time & Distance Make A Great Lens
August 3, 2008 (One Response)
IT’S BEEN almost two years since the Year Of Debauchery, which peaked with a month in Japan where I felt completely lost in an alien landscape. 2 years and several thousand miles later I finally understand why I need to go back there. Read more
Preaching Faith, Through Superior Firepower?
July 12, 2008 (One Response)
I KNOW America loves its guns, but this is weird on a whole new level folks. A Church in Oklahoma city decided recently to hold a weekend conference for teenagers, and what better way to entice some nice young faithful into the fold than by offering a prize of a semi-automatic rifle in a raffle for all attendees? Read more
Things You Wish You Could Say At Work…
June 16, 2008 (2 Responses)
LET’S FACE IT, we’ve all thought about it. Some of us have actually done it. For most of us our work life is never perfect, but sometimes it just gets so damn frustrating that once, just once, we wish you could just blurt out some home truths. Well for those of you facing the same dilemma I give you a list of things you really wish you could say out loud at work. Read more
Hiring A Hitman Is So Much Easier Than You Think…
June 14, 2008 (One Response)
ONE MINUTE you’re searching the ‘Net for a PC Game related website and some cheat codes and then before you know it you’re in court defending your actions in front of judge and trying to explain that you didn’t really intend to sign up as a hitman for hire at that website and that you thought it was all a bit of a joke really. No, really! Read more
Welsh Jedis On The Moon & Israeli Laser Defence Class Action…
March 15, 2008 (5 Responses)
THESE WELSH JEDI lot are a forward looking bunch; I’ll give them that at least. Whether you think they’re whackjobs or take them seriously the UK Church of Jedi actually exists, presumably as a subset of the Jedi Church itself, and most recently they have made the headlines because they selected a rather interesting place to build their latest church, not to mention forming a new Galactic nation state. I refer of course to the story that some Welsh Jedis decided to create a space colony on the moon.
Yep. You read that right, on the moon!
Of course the first step in such an enterprise is to purchase some real estate, which they have in fact managed to do. Actually, they’re not just interested in buying the land (a one acre site apparently), they are also in the process of setting up a new Jedi nation up there as well. You see the moon is classed as being in ‘international waters’ (although I challange anyone to find water up there!) so legally speaking there is nothing to stop them forming their own galactic state up there.
The two brothers at the head of the UK Jedi Church organisation have gone ahead and set up a government, constitution and royal family of the sovereign state as well. The nation is called The Galactic States of Jediism and they have also nominated their own capital city on the moon called Testa City.
What beats me is how they can fit all this into one little acre of real estate… still it could set an interesting precedent if we ever manage to, you know, actually colonise the moon… although why anyone would want to at this point is a bit of a mystery to me.
Still, it’s not as weird as the next item, because quasi-religious sci-fi enthusiasts doing their thing on the moon is at least ‘out there’ somewhere, a possibility that might be a problem in the future sometime if we ever go back to the moon, where as this next item is closer to home but just as weird. Read more
How To Save Your Soul, MMORPG Style…
March 11, 2008 (4 Responses)
Original content: http://www.xkcd.com/393/
