Bad Santas run wild in Auckland

Sounds like a right laugh. Let's start a Santarchy chapter.

UK Most Wanted ...

Was just looking at the new most wanted list of criminal suspects. All the crimes seem to have been in Yorkshire or Greater London, so I guess you're safe John, especially if you stay away from Weegieland. Some of the entries full of typos, e.g.:

"However it si believed that he was mundered at Stone Road address."

Wikipedia "as reliable as Britannica"

Surprised and pleased to read this

Ah, makes you proud - slight return

Homicide rate hits 10-year high

Tookie

Arnie has terminated Crips founder Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, despite there being some some doubts as to the extent of his culpability for the crimes for which he was convicted, and his apparent reformation in prison.

All the same, you wouldn't have wanted to mess with him in his heyday - if this guy was in a film you'd think it was over the top:

Best of the Fitz 2005

Well, the end of the year is approaching and the reviews are starting. I thought I'd present my Top 5 Fitzroy Tuesday trails of 2005:


Cosgrove Puts the Boot In (Feb 14)
http://fitzroytuesday.blogspot.com/2005/02/cosgrove-puts-boot-in.html

The Portable Virtual Privacy Machine (March 2)
http://fitzroytuesday.blogspot.com/2005/03/portable-virtual-privacy-machine.html

Contemporary Scottish Bar in London (May 19)
http://fitzroytuesday.blogspot.com/2005/05/contemporary-scottish-bar-in-london.html

Philosophical muti-storey car park ticket machine (November 26)
http://fitzroytuesday.blogspot.com/2005/11/philosophical-muti-storey-car-park.html

Well, the weather in Edinburgh has been ridiculously cold this week (November 19)
http://fitzroytuesday.blogspot.com/2005/11/well-weather-in-edinburgh-has-been.html

Thriller in Manila

Anyone catch the program about the Muhammad Ali / Smokin' Joe Frazier fight series last night? Think it was called The Fight. Completely gobsmacked by the final showdown - armageddon, basically. (Also not a very flattering portrait of Ali, I thought).

Prescription Meds

Herbal viagra... Become a property millionaire... Cheap home insurance... Russian brides... Forward this to 100 people and earn $$$$$... Stock tips...

Sorry, just trying to attract some higher value Google ads for the Fitzrovian christmas drinks kitty.

Poetry Corner

I haven't seen this mentioned before, so I thought you might enjoy some of the poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld ...

Re-cycling - geddit?

Got any old bikes? They'll ship em to Africa.

TV Arials & Freeview

I got myself a Freeview box the other day. Now I'm looking for a good arial, because my reception isn't that great. I figured Amazon would be a good place to search for them as they have customer reviews, but Amazon obviously think there's only one reason anyone would want to watch TV...

Philosophical muti-storey car park ticket machine

The machine displaying this is near the foot of Techno Bridge, incidentally. (Greenside Place has a handy car park for Saturday shopping in the New Town).

The long goodbye

Good article.

Publicity

Am thinking of trying to raise the profile of FitzTues, maybe by getting it listed on some UK blog directories. Thoughts?

From the ashes

Review in the New Yorker of interesting-looking new history tome:
Postwar

The St James Centre Techno Bridge has won an award!

From the Institute of Structural Engineers. Apparently it's just called the Greenside Place Bridge. Still most excellent however.

Well, the weather in Edinburgh has been ridiculously cold this week

and I have been using the coolest promotional windscreen ice-scraper I have ever encountered...

because it's beholden upon me to post stuff i notice about Alan Moore

Catching Up with Alan Moore

Latest thoughts on property market..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4421496.stm

Well at least the telly's not #### this time of year

(forgive the ## prudery but am typing this in an extremely corporate environment). Rome pretty good, Bleak House impressively techno-fied and The Thick of It just superb (tho last night's final episode the weakest of the 2nd series I think).