Monthly Archives: January 2007

Nuclear Era Underground City

January 30, 2007
By Stephen

Via BBC and Damien Mulley Wiltshire’s Secret Underground CityBurlington: The 35 acre, secret subterranean Cold War City that lies 100 feet beneath Corsham. Welcome to Wiltshire’s Secret Underground City… the 35 acre subterranean Cold War City that lies 100 feet beneath Corsham. Built in the late 50s this massive city complex was designed to safely house up to 4,000 central Government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike. In a former Bath stone quarry the city, code named...

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79th Academy Award Nominations

January 28, 2007
By Stephen
79th Academy Award Nominations

Well i did it for the Golden Globes so why not this! and the nominations are: Performance by an actor in a leading role Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.) Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm) Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Council) Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight) Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in “Little Miss...

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Badges!

January 28, 2007
By Stephen
Badges!

I see bebo and facebook are after launching badges! here are mine Steve Spillanehttp://steve4welfare.bebo.com/ Have fun with em!

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Morning Briefing, 26th January

January 26, 2007
By Stephen

Dia Duit ar an maidin fuar! An nuacht ar an lá seo. A conference is taking place in Spain on the EU Constitution (BBC). Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain are sending ministers and Germany, Ireland and Portugal are sending observers. Im not sure what outcome it will have as only 17 member states are attending. The UN will announce its plan for Kosovo today (BBC). Hopefully...

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Morning Briefing, 22nd January

January 22, 2007
By Stephen

Dia Duit! Tá sé ag cur sneachta!!!! An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Well the north’s PSNI is ser to be racked by accusations today with a new repoprt due to be launched by the Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan (Breakingnews) This could undo alot of hard work that the PSNI has undertaken under the Patten report! Well Hilary is ‘in this to win’ (Breakingnews). I hope to put up a post shortly about presidential hopefuls! A radical nationalist party...

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Search Engine Wars!

January 21, 2007
By Stephen
Search Engine Wars!

OMG Yahoo has out passed Google in sending me hits! What is the world coming too! Thanks to statcounter for the details

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Work! What work?

January 20, 2007
By Stephen

God, I’m officially unemployed as of yesterday (though still in full time education) so need to find a part-time job! So as i was bored i took a trip around the blogosphere and found some interesting stuff. A People’s Ard Fheis? hmmm would it work?? Is there a vast lesbian conspiracy? My jury stills out on this! Excellent post on the greys anatomy-homophobia debacle An all-Ireland soccer team? If they can do it for rugby why not soccer? Methodists...

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GAY WITCH-HUNT IN NIGERIA

January 19, 2007
By Stephen

Via USI LGBT (email so no link) “Nigeria seems certain to legislate one of the world’s most sweeping and repressive anti-gay laws, unless international pressure is bought to bear on the Nigerian government in the next few weeks,” Peter Tatchell has stated. The leader or OUTRage! went on to say, “We appeal to gay and human rights groups worldwide to take urgent action to press the Nigerian government to uphold international human rights law and to drop this draconian...

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Jake Gyllenhaal on Saturday Night Live

January 18, 2007
By Stephen

Saw this over on Gay Patriot and had to post it! Enjoy!!

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Definition of a hate crime

January 18, 2007
By Stephen

Im doing research at the moment on hate crime as part of overall research for the SGMHP and it came to the point of how am i going to back up my version of a hate crime so i did a few searches to see if any would back me up! Ill give my version first For the purpose of this survey a hate crime is any physical or verbal attack; where the victim is primarily targeted because of...

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