From El Reg: Greek cops to paintball rioting fans
I skimmed this article in my RSS read and then marked all as read and then stopped, and I’d swear there was a lightbulb over my head!
Why have police forces not considered this before? Paintballing rioters is a great idea for dispersal…
Rubber Bullets and [...]
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Normally I don’t mention who I work for, as all opinions on the blog are my own and not my employers. But when the vid below and associated press releases started circulating around the blogosphere, I just had to post about them…
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The "Quad Core" chopper, created by Orange County Choppers for Intel.
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I know I’ve been dithering over who to vote for in my local constituency. Looking over the different policy documents I was leaning towards Labour, and after all the Bertie scandals recently I certainly won’t be voting Fianna Fáil.
Thanks to Embarr over at Tír na nÓg who pointed me today to the Pick Your [...]
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First, background: Over the last few years grannymar has been worried by the introduction of water charges/rates in Northern Ireland in 07/08. The plan was not to install water meters and she would have ended up being charged as much as a family of four!
Today she sent a mail with some good [...]
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Today I set off on my 3-week round-the-world odyssey.
So far I’ve flown Dublin -> Chicago and am currently waiting for my flight on to Phoenix.
Then on 19/20th it’s Phoenix -> San Francisco -> Hong Kong -> Saigon/Ho Chi Minh
And finally on 24/25th it’s Saigon/Ho Chi Minh -> Hong Kong -> [...]
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One of the best daily comic strips on the net in my opinion just started flying back into my RSS reader yesterday. It’s been a break of several months for ‘Being Five’, but Georgie’s back!
© George Sfarnas
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