Monika’s Pensieve

It’s a little freaky to think that something like this can happen so easily… Basically three of the four cables that run below the ocean between Europe, the Middle East and Asia have snapped.
Communication with the Middle East is already difficult in the present state and the disruption may bring massive losses to businesses, but [...]

I’m not sure why I didn’t write about this when it first happened ;) But anyway, here are some hilarious photos from all round the world relating to the incident - apparently when it comes to throwing shoes at Bush, we can all stand united ;)

This is a set of 8 short films by Isabella Rossellini depicting insect sex *grin* (this is work safe I think, just er… weird ;))

I couldn’t find the remaining two films (dragonfly and firefly) on youtube, but you can watch them here and here.

Apparently in Bhutan divorce carries no stigma unlike in its neighbouring countries.

You give Afghan warlords Viagra in exchange for information *grin*

I’m rather unexcited about the Frost/Nixon film (I hate the trailer and all the clips from the film that I’ve seen), but I found the discussion below very interesting:

I’m too young to remember the Watergate scandal and too historically ignorant to know much about it. I’ve seen David Frost interviewing people (he now works for [...]

Some of these are actually very useful - at least I think so ;-P I always thought it would be cool to take my laptop out camping for example, but it never seemed realistic because how on Earth would I power it? With some of the gadgets there it’s absolutely possible ;)

This is an article about how the relationship between Firefox and Google has become somewhat more complicated since the release of Chrome.

A fun interview with American-Iranian actor and stand-up comedian Maz Jobrani:

If you’d like to check out a bit more of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour then see here :)