Unintelligent Design

BBC - US Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has accused the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, of associating with terrorists

 Sarah Palin seems to be nicknamed 'Sarah Parrot' by some commentators - something which mostly came to my attention via this cartoon.

That then makes me think back to 'Nobody expects the Alaskan Politician!" Palin jokes and wonder... if she starts to struggle during the campaign, how long will it be 'til we see the various  nailed to her perch jokes starting?

Tomorrow is Friday.

I have a plan, cooked up after consulting the likes of sobrique  and mister_jack. It involves visiting a pub, drinking a certain amount of alcohol and talking about... er... stuff, mostly.

The pub will be the Whitefriars, because we're predictable. The ETA is less predictable, as some of us are grabbing a curry first.

(...and now, sleep)

Hmm. Quietly happy with that, I think.

I'd forgotten that I actually enjoy driving. Possibly because I didn't, the first time around. :-)

Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised - "the Treasury will almost instantaneously sell to a bank or a number of banks".

According to the BBC, this means that every building society floated on the stock market in the past two decades will have collapsed or been sold to a conventional bank. Something about that fact seems a little bit depressing.

With a subject line like that, I'm sure some of you already know that this is going to be a FreakAngels post. After all, I know that some of you already read it.

I also know that some of you don't do webcomics, or don't get on with Warren Ellis's stuff, or simply don't like the style/tone/language of this particular piece (it's very pretty but quite slow paced, except when it's suddenly quite violent. There's some bad language, too).

However, it occurred to me that I haven't rambled about it for a while, and there are almost certainly some of you who are 'neither of the above' and might actually quite like it. If so, please do give it a try - the link above goes to the first page of the first episode.

FreakAngels is published weekly, at noon (GMT) each Friday. You get six pages a week, although there are occasional skip weeks. It's intended to run for a long time, and it's being collected in print by Avatar Press (the first collection's due in a week or five).

In that sense, it's something of a publishing experiment - a paper-based comic company backing a creator-owned webcomic project by two people who are already comics professionals, in the hope that it'll sell paper copies as well and will eventually turn into something that's financially viable.

If any of you are planning to be on the road, in Coventry, next Tuesday night...

...well, don't say I didn't warn you. That's all.

Spotted via gamera_spinning 's journal...

From the New York Times - Aaron Sorkin's written an Op-Ed piece in the form of a conversation between Barack Obama and Jed Bartlet.

Very nicely done.

Just a little bit tired. On the plus side:

• Have contacted a couple of driving instructors, will hopefully be able to pick which one I'm using some time tomorrow.
• The builders are here on Monday, to quote for the next round of work on the house.
• ...and on Thursday we get into the detailed plans for the kitchen extension.

Huzzah!

I appear to have a shiny new driving licence. Ok, so it's got a big red 'L' printed on it - but it's still a driving licence.

Time to book some more lessons and take my test again, I think. :)