Sunday, April 19, 2009

My first thought was: "We still have warships?"

Canadian, British, U.S. vessels foil pirates in Gulf of Aden

A Canadian warship helped thwart a pirate attack as part of the NATO mission to keep vessels safely moving in the Gulf of Aden, officials said Sunday. (Full story @ CBC)

This is a real thing, and everyone must know of it (NSFW, but awesome)

Ron Jeremy + Sci-Fi/Horror movie = WIN

http://oneeyedmonstermovie.com/

No seriously, that's the title. And again, NSFW

Monday, April 13, 2009

Abdelrazik disaster continues

Ottawa cites international obligations in denying citizen's return home (Globe & Mail)

The government has unveiled new and unprecedented reasons barring the return of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik, claiming every country he might fly over on the way home from Khartoum needed to give explicit permission.

This is flat out wrong. I only hope the Federal Court doesn't buy into this nonsense.

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Lookalikes

Is it just me, or does Lenora Crichlow of BBC's Being Human:

Bear an uncanny resemblance to Billie Piper, of Doctor Who and Belle du Jour fame?