To be fair, this is probably what Doctor Who looks like to people in Turkey, but with less bottoms.

Link: Video Review: Turkish Star Trek

The construction of Dick Cheney’s secret underground base/escape tunnel/Thunderbirds-style launch pad/bunker has been causing rumbling explosion noises for months, disturbing his neighbours. What type of building work requires a couple of explosions a day for two years?

Link: Secret blasts rattle Cheney’s neighbors

I’m disturbed by Channel 4/Film 4’s obsession with gangster films. The TV adverts alone are glamourising a particularly nasty type of crime - they seem to be adverts for crime as much as films.

The Getaway is the perfect game for the Gangster-loving Nathans of London. In fact, it looks so good I’ve had to fight back the urge to buy it, and a Playstation 2, right now. And I’m not a crime fiction fan, I’ve never wanted to play at being a cop killer, and I’m not a driving enthusiast. I don’t even like London.

What are games going to be like in another ten years?

UN workers in Israel and the Occupied Territories politely ask the Israeli military stop “beating and killing” them. This isn’t news, but Cherie Blair blubbing was on Channel 4 news five, maybe six times today.

The murder of Ian Hook, shot in the back by an Israeli sniper while he was inside a UN compound, and then prevented from getting medical aid, is an absolute disgrace. Enough people are being killed by terrorists already, without state terrorism too.

Link: U.N. Workers Petition Israel: Stop “Beating and Killing” Us

I often see a fellow Metro traveller zoom off on one of these, and I want one. Sadly, online reviews claim that they aren’t a good choice for big people. Boo. By the time I get a bike we’ll be moving house and probably no longer live next to a cycle path.

Link: Micro folding bicycle

A collection of “ephemeral” short films from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s America. The collection includes unintentionally hilarious advice on the dangers of “parking”, racist wartime propaganda, pompous adverts, bad sex education, and the joys of atomic power. Real, but very close to the spoof versions that appear in ‘The Simpsons’

Link: The Prelinger Archive

Everyday, a new mini-tutorial on a useful Perl module. Now with improved camels.

Link: The Perl Advent Calendar

Who else is better qualified to investigate the failure of US intelligence agencies in the Trade Centre attack? If you want an expert on international terrorism, you can’t do better than choose Henry Kissinger, one of the top terrorists of the 20th Century. From simple assassinations, through coups and wars to full blown genocide, he knows his subject. Top quality choice from Bush. Not quite the best way to win support worldwide, though.

So, to celebrate this return of a great historical figure, I present the Monty Python song “Henry Kissinger”, and two summaries of this macabre event, one from a journalist, and one from a cartoonist.

Link: Get Your War On (Wins the main link for the best summary of popular opinion).

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Good news.

Link: New ape population found