Safari For Windows Beta 3

Safari is available for Windows, if you haven't heard the news.

I've tested it and it's very fast. I'm shocked.

-- Safari for Windows

Funny Cats

Easter ‘miracle’ as dead man returns to life

Declared dead by doctors, then rescued from the mortuary, Freddie Maguire has made such a strong recovery that he has been nicknamed Jesus Christ.

Mr Maguire, 47, from Dublin’s north inner city, was pronounced dead by doctors at the Mater Hospital after they fought for 30 minutes to save his life on Easter Day.

Mr Maguire, who has learning difficulties, was being treated for a separate condition when he suffered a heart attack. He was moved to the intensive care unit and treated by a team of medical staff, who pronounced him dead....

-- "Easter ‘miracle’ as dead man returns to life"

An Atheist Prayer

"Let us take responsibility for our own actions, inactions, strengths and frailties and not project them onto ghosts, spirits, stars, portents and gods unseen.

Let us have the courage to accept that one person's faith is another person's bloody-minded pig-headed refusal to accept the obvious.

Let us have the courage to accept that the person at the front of all crowds, including this one, doesn't know all the answers.

Let us have the wisdom to accept that if our ancestors had fared differently in wars our communities would be holding different absurdities up as sacred truths, and the willingness to accept those absurdities would be seen as the badge of social trustworthiness or even the right to be allowed to draw breath.

Let us accept that the difference between a prophet and a madman is not what they say but whether the crowd accepts the story and tells their children to believe it.

Let us have the courage to accept that wanting to believe in something with every fibre of our being does not and cannot make it true.

Truth needs no help, no believers, no bowed heads and no amens."

-- Martin Willet

Global Cool

Global Cool's mission is this: get one billion people to reduce their personal CO2 emissions by at least one tonne. That's one billion people shedding one billion tonnes of CO2 every year.

You can become one in a billion right here by pledging to make a few effortless lifestyle changes. Simply tick which pledges you think you could do and we'll tell you how much CO2 you'll save from clogging up the atmosphere. You'll be shocked at the difference you can make!

-- Global Cool

A Brief History of Toilet Paper

While the modern convenience of toilet paper is often taken for granted, the human history of toilet paper actually began relatively late. In the 6th century AD, wealthy individuals living in China often used paper for “sanitary” purposes – even though the standard paper making process had been perfected several centuries before. Regardless, there are several documents written by ancient scholars about the Chinese use of paper for toilet-related tasks. In 589 AD, the scholar Yan Zhitiu wrote that “paper on which there are quotations or commentaries from Five Classics or the names of sages, I dare not use for toilet purposes....”

-- "The Dirty Truth – A Brief History of Toilet Paper (6th century AD and onward… hopefully)"

We're selling chocolate. Honest.

The thing that amazes me about this 1969 Cadbury TV ad is that it was allowed on British TV in the first place.

I know that ladies are supposed to like chocolate, but this is a bit over the top (in a so awful it is good sense). :)