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This has to be the most evil excuse for ‘breakfast’ ever served — the “Hungry Man All Day Breakfast” (yes, it’s American). You chuck it in the microwave, and out comes sausages, bacon, eggs, something called ‘home fries’ and pancakes. Luckily, merkans get proper nutritional information on their munchies, something that’s only now becoming the…

John Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, was caught in a friendly fire incident while travelling with a convoy of Kurdish and US troops. He filed a report by satellite phone immediately after the attack, and a video report later in the day. Although he and his team were lightly wounded, a translator working with…

Tip o’ the hat to John and Slate for this dinky workaround for DSLTV‘s irritating .nl IP address limitation … Change your browser’s proxy settings to use the HTTP proxy at 212.203.5.93 on port 3128 Visit the DSLTV website Pick a channel on the right Make clicky Sorted. Nice one.

Here are some of this year’s April Fools internet gags — not all of them great, but dem’s da breaks! I’ve linked to the sites, but since the April Fools pages themselves may have changed after the fact, I’ve included screengrabs from today. Enjoy. Google Buys Metafilter — the ‘Metafiiiiiiiilter’ graphic at the bottom, aping…

Howdo … it’s my birthday on the 30th of March, which is next Sunday, so if you feel you have kindness in your heart, or altruism in your soul, feel free to check out my amazon.co.uk wishlist and send me something cool for my birthday 🙂

Some photos from my Ryanair flight to Bournemouth on Monday. Quite a quick flight, but Bournemouth Airport is tiny 🙂

BBC News Online is doing hour by hour updates on the “business” regards Iraq

After reading “UN decision day on Iraq” this morning on BBC News Online, I can feel hair bristling at the back of my neck. Key phrases: “moment of truth”, “reacted defiantly”, “very threatening”, “have only managed”, “final appeal” … These two sentences scare me, however: ‘Saddam Hussein appeared prepared for war, warning that if Iraq…

Interesting article yesterday from the SF Chronicle (which is a pretty good read on a Sunday, if huge and chunky!) about SBC switching customers to SBC Yahoo! DSL — the repetitive mantra of “we want to lead people to a better product” would be amusing if it weren’t so abusive of consumer rights — an…