More then just a fluff of wool?

Came across this rather humorous article in the Guardian, where it turns out that the British sheep are employing commando-like tactics, to get past human made devices, in order to reach the greener pastures beyond their confinement in Yourkshire county.

Commando sheep.

Ahoy, and a bottle of rum for me!

I recently discovered this deliciously addictive and entertaining online puzzle game.
It's called Puzzle Pirates, within it you roam the high seas with your fellow sailors and prey on merchants and other vessels in exciting online sea conflicts!
When you feel you've let your enemies taste enough of your cold steel and you can't seem to shake that smell of gunpowder from your nostrils, it's time to head off to the tavern for some ales in drinking games and socializing to rest yer tired pirate bones.

If any of you scurvy dogs want to join me in a life of piracy, feel welcome, my name is Stormo on the Viridian ocean server *<:)

ps. It's entirely free to play, if you wish.

The link is as follows:
The adventure awaits.

Don't think we've been introduced...

So this week gone has been an eventful one, amongst other things, last Friday there was an attempted burglary into my accommodation, while I was in it!
So there I was sitting by my computer with headphones on, chatting with a couple of friends online. Lights were on in the room and the TV was running with the volume on in the background.
I'd left the window open with a little crack on it to let in some of the fresh night air.
There I am minding my own business when suddenly I notice something out of the corner of my eye, when I looked over I notice a hand coming though the curtains moving them around. Evidently someone was reaching through the window from the outside checking out the room before going in.
As soon as I noticed this I shouted out, threw of the headphones and ran towards the window.
The immediate response was the scurrying of feet down the steel staircase outside my window into the dark. When I reached the window and pried it open, whoever had been there were or was gone.

Then the following Sunday I heard 5 gunshots from what must not have been more then two streets away.

It's events like this that make you reflect on if you're really living in the best of places, then again this is what one can expect when living in a city rather then more rural areas.
So it’s something everyone needs to weight with themselves, the hustle and bustle with higher crime rates vs. quiet and calm in what is generally a safer environment.

Revenge of the Sith, Chine-Angelised...

Now I haven't seen the most recent Star Wars flick, however a friend of mine pointed out this page to me, where its writer had picked up Star Wars Episode III from his local DVD dealer in Shanghai.

Now nothing special about that, if not for the fact, that this Shanghai version of the DVD included English captions of the Chinese version for the script. And those captions turned out to be somewhat humorous, if not misshapen attempts at these translations.

The link includes screenshots, description of what is actually being said in English during the film, under the pictures, and then the "fabulous" translations from the Chinese script seen in the captions of the screenshots.

Chine-Angelised Star Wars captions.

Islamic suicide bombers responsible

The shocking truth about the London bombings came to light yesterday when Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch, announced on a press conference that Britain had been the victim of suicide bombers for the first time.

The suicide bomb plot.
The execution of the plot.
The bombers profiles.

It's worrying to think that people from a good and stable background would be able to justify to themselves and perform such an act in good faith. In addition, these extremists were not immigrants struggling to fit in, but British citizens who had grown up and lived many years within the fold of our society yet quite willing to take the lives of innocent people trying to live their lives the best they could in this country.