There’s a tube strike today. I walked for an hour to try and get the laptop online at a Starbucks, but they don’t do that here. Still, I got to get in a Goodies reference by walking past Lords.
Caught a bus into town. The conductor was having the time of his life, telling people they could or couldn’t get on, shooing them upstairs and down.

According to the NY Times (registration required), “In a letter that attacks what it says is the Bush administration’s failure to address the looming crisis of global warming, the attorneys general of 11 states have written to the president pressing for strong federal measures to limit emissions of so-called greenhouse gases.”

From the BBC, “American fighter jets have escorted a commercial domestic flight into a New York airport after a passenger complained that several passengers – all Indian – were acting suspiciously.”
Would this have happened if they were white Europeans or Americans?

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Last night I met up with Mads for a drink, we ended up at the Foundry, where Masse were playing ‘live chill-out’. It was pretty good, I’d go see them again.

An American girl on the Tube shrieked, “I can’t believe this, we saw *Slayer*! For next to *nothing*! On our second night in *London*!”. Bless.

Tim Fischer’s ‘gay continental types’ comments, including “Life is too short not to talk straight” and the don’t-quote-this-out-of-context “There are certainly some outstanding German hotel managers who have come to mind who have worked very hard in their positions” led Fraser to say this:
“What I like about Tim Fischer is that he seems like a pretty nice guy who’s just a bit retarded, and we need more politicians like that, because they’re clearly useless for doing anything other than making me laugh.”
which made me laugh every time I read it.

Someone found minke.com with the search term “open directory – breasts, yay, free”.

Well, I have a phone now.
Everytime my old phone was turned on, it would pick up a different network. It started with O2, then it got Vodaphone, and finally One 2 One.

Have Viagra. Need woman.