May 6th 2006
/images/feed.png "Comments RSS Feed")
Blogging, Life, Politics
The European Song Contest is rapidly approaching and the final will air on Friday 20th May 2006. The UK has already chosen their entry, although I’m not sure it’s worth actually entering. Since the UK has joined forces with the US the Eurovision song contest has been more of a general election rather than a singing contest - this is not what the Eurovision stands for.
I’m calling for all Eurovision voters to not vote politically, as they have done for the last 4 or 5 times! It’s not about a country’s military status or whether or not they’ve invaded you in the past, not whether or not they’ve still got the damn death penalty - it’s about the singers, the songs and the passion of music from hundreds of cultures over Europe. Granted, this probably won’t change the UK’s chances this year, but it needs to be done. I think it was last year that 4 countries that provide the most money to the ESC were the bottom 4 losers. I say if people still vote with political bias, we should stop funding it. I don’t see why we should have to pay them so they can passively protest against war. It isn’t the place.
So, I’ll be watching the contest (after my Spanish Listening and my Science module tests) but if I see Belarus giving 12 points to Latvia, Croatia giving 12 points to Serbia and Montenegro or Ukraine 12 points to Russia, I’m boycotting the ESC untill they stop it. I also think a letter to the BBC and UKIB (ITV, C4 & S4C) would be in order. It isn’t right, it isn’t fair and it’s not in the spirit of Europe.
April 29th 2006
Life, News, Politics
Via Digg, I wanted to post some links to some very moving Flash animations from a 15 year old ‘peace activist’ in the United States. Please take a look at her animations. I just wanted to post them because they really show how utterly evil our world is, and what it may become.
WARNING: Graphic imagery of injury and scenes of death!
(1) What Would Jesus Do?
(2) Broken Promises
(3) The Time Is Now
(4) The 32%
(5) Impeach The Decider
Not the sort of thing you expect from a 15 year old girl, eh? Head on over to her site now and take a look around if you feel the same.
April 16th 2006
Film/TV, Life, Politics
I regularly go on to the Apple Quicktime Movie Trailers page to check out the latest movie trailers, but I thought I would like to share with you some of the films that are coming out, or have come out, that you may never hear of. These are only a selection of the trailers available on Apple’s site, but these are the one’s I feel are most connected to the state of our world at the moment. Check them out and leave a comment.
April 15th 2006
Life, Politics, Technology
I stupidly forgot to mention this on Wednesday, but it was the 25th anniversary of the first NASA Space Shuttle flight, named STS-1. On April 12th 1981, the first flight went off without a hitch and it led the way for twenty five years of orbital exploration, satellite insertion and the construction of the International Space Station. NASA’s Space Shuttle was the first re-usable orbital vehicle.
Even though I’m late in paying my respects, I wanted to just share with you this event. Please go on over to NASA’s tribute to the first flight by heading over to http://www.nasa.gov/ and clicking ‘STS-1 Flash Feature’. The video is well worth a watch. Let us all thank those who were involved and pay our respects for the people on the fatal missions STS-107 (Space Shuttle Columbia) and STS-51-L (Space Shuttle Challenger).
Come on 2018!
/images/9r_leaf.png "9rules Network")