Braindead

Ooops. While out in the Peak District over the weekend, we came across a windfarm, and I tried taking an .avi movie with the camera of it. Having just looked at it, I realise that having the camera in a vertical orientation means that the windmills now appear to be on their sides. Shit.

The entire .avi looks like this. *Sob*

The Buck Stops Over There

Yes, the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain has been closed for ten days, as people insisted on paddling in it, and then slipped and hurt themselves. But it’s not badly designed, or even just fucking stupid, oh no. According to Tessa Jowell, the gobshite Culture Secretary, it’s the fault of the people using it.

“I don’t think any responsible member of the public would want to see people allowing their dogs in it,” she said.

“How can we maintain the purity of the water if some people allow their dogs to paddle?”

Shouldn’t that kind of thing have been addressed far earlier, perhaps, say, when the bloody thing was being designed?

“Well, we think this fountain will have a nice big watercourse, and allow people complete access to the waterway, and to the land inside it, so we’ll make the entire thing out of smooth concrete that’ll be slippy as shite when wet. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. We’ll put that plan forward, then blame the punters when they slip.”

Or perhaps hospitalising people was the true memorial to Diana? Who knows.

Memory Cards

Over on the BBC, five memory cards have been tested to destruction. Dunked in cola, laundered, boiled, trampled, hammered, and given to a six-year-old boy. Oh, and nailed to a tree. Only the xD and SD cards survived – I’m glad my Fuji camera uses xD!