Interesting Programming Choice

As part of Video Hits New Year's special, ie when we can't be bothered to give you the same twenty videos we have given you the past month - there's not that much change in the charts, after all - they have put in All Saints Pure Shores, pretty girls but where are they now territory. Anyways, I mention it because it was off the soundtrack to The Beach, that Leo di Caprio movie filmed on Phi Phi island that was so badly hit by the tsunami. One of my guilty pleasure movies lol, it's not that good, but it's entertaining for me. Still haven't seen it on special when have been buying DVDs, damned uppity studio that won't put it on sale LOL.



Hmm, found this site through a press release of theirs saying that God was unhappy with gay Swedes so sent the tsunami their way to kill them off. Of course, since He wasn't in the mood to make a big enough tsunami to wipe out Stockholm, obviously he had to take out 120,000 locals and other assorted nationalities. The intolerance of some people, geez. They have webpages gloating the fact that some gay people get murdered. As I said earlier today, every opinion is valid in my eyes, but don't expect me to go agreeing with them, this is a one time link only I think - it's not a satire site is it?



Good article about the level of destruction in Aceh by the Guardian. The town of 10,000 has just been wiped out, some road remaining but no buildings at all. Just thinking of New York's sense of dislocation when the WTC came down, and the gap in the skyline and on the ground. Well, my thinking is multiply that over the entire coastline of Indonesia, Thailand, eastern Sri Lanka and south eastern India - there is just a gap where there was something before. Much wider area than Ground Zero - in this disaster there are innumerable (spelling?) Ground Zeros - just my thinking, don't sue me over it...



Hmm, buried near the bottom of this story from the NY Times about the increase in US aid, is a bit of a diplomatic spat between France and the head of the US foreign aid department, Andrew Natsios, who said on Fox News that France wasn't the biggest of donors to international aid. Fox News, of course, LOL, would like to see a transcript of that and if the host led the discussion to an answer that would be France baiting. Natsios then went on to praise the EU's contributions - hmm, bash France praise the EU. That's like bashing North Dakota and praising the USA I would think?



'The energy unleashed in a 9.0 quake, as this one would ultimately come to measure, is roughly the amount that would be unleashed if it were possible to create a bomb made of 32 billion tons of TNT and set it off.'



Is there even 32 billion tons of TNT in the world? Above paragraph from another good New York Times article, about how the international scientists and aid workers learned and have come to grips so far with the event.



Later peeps

Pauly