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jim crow - should he stay or should he go?

Here is your chance to be the change you want to see.

Should racism be part and parcel of the 21st century?  Should overt racist landmarks be allowed to remain due to some notion of historical value? 

The Dunoon Observer is running a poll (link below) on should Jim Crow go or stay. You are allowed one vote and this is monitored using a cookie.

Therefore if you vote then navigate away from the site then delete any cookies under donoon-observer.com then return to the site and vote again. I understand that the voting has already been corrupted in this way in favour of the rock staying. 

Currently we are at 319 saying it should stay and only 238 saying it should go.

To work!!

http://www.dunoon-observer.com/

You can see the results of the poll here:

http://www.dunoon-observer.com/index.php/component/poll/7-jim-crow-should-he-stay-or-should-he-go

double rainbow, all the way

My pal LE showed this to me a couple of days ago.

This guy SERIOUSLY likes the rainbow. 

This You Tube film was then used to remix a tune which is now availible on ITunes!!! Wicked or should I say "Double Rainbow, All the way!!"

I recall when I was a kid, my Dad driving me toward the end of a rainbow in his car and we talked about what we would do and who we would give money to when we found the pot of gold. Dad carried on trying to reach the end for what felt like ages, making me point with my finger whilst he attempted to turn left or right maintaining the general direction. It was, without wanting to exaggerate, about 20 minutes. Finally it was concluded by us both that you cannot drive to the end of a rainbow, the magic of the rainbow cannot be accessed by car. You have to be on foot! Of course.

tv shack is a-ok

For those of you who frequented the TVshack.net website the news that the US government had seized and closed down the site was a serious blow.

You may well have been faced with a scene like this:

I have this evening been informed by the great man and my old pal 'TF' that this was not the end of the TV shack and that in fact they have moved to a new URL. The full story is here:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/06/tv-shack-piracy/

Just to confirm the new URL is: http://tvshack.cc/

Hoorah for the interweb!!!

mr carter and bt

I heard this last week and thought it was really funny to the point that I laughed so much my stomach ached for two days afterwards.

What is really incredible is that the BT guy didn't listen to Mr Carter, instead he said midway through, "It'll only take a couple of minutes."

When you hear the BT guy talking to his supervisor the other end, he just asks for the call to be listened to, rather than doing as Mr Carter asks. 

It would have been a better ad for BT if the BT had said to his supervisor "Can we ensure that Mr Carter's name is removed from the list."  Instead we are left never knowing whether BT ever called Mr Carter back to fulfill the sales script.

This is pure rage on the part of Mr Carter and I am not sure who I have more sympathy for.  Has he been harrased to the point of madness?  Brilliant!