Pregnant teen drink driver does a runner

Police pulled the girl over on Saturday night and she recorded a level of 766 micrograms per litre of breath – more than five times the legal limit for her age of 150mcg.

Earlier in the week she had recorded a level of 828mcg – six times the legal limit – after she was spotted driving erratically.

Drought warning as the tropics expand

Reichler says that the expansion of the subtropics is more feared than the widening of the tropical zone itself. While the tropical belt is hot and humid, the subtropics suffer from severe drought. The Sahara and Sahel are both subtropical regions.

Dancing asteroid spirals close to Earth

The Earth had company this week when an asteroid practically grazed the planet – passing by just 400,000 miles away. That’s less than twice the distance of the Earth to the Moon.

Had a very nice pleasant birthday yesterday. Got woken up by my half naked friend and taken out to lunch. Thankfully, he put his shirt on at least for that. Spent the afternoon with friends. Had a nice dinner with the family and chilled out with the flatmates for the rest of the night.

About to head up to Auckland to hang with more friends and watch Slumdog Millionaire, which I certainly can’t wait to see and should really get going at this point. Be back tomorrow to hold a birthday party, which could potentially be the last one at my current house, but there will be more on that in another post.

Just thought I’d link an article to the Turritopsis nutricula, an immortal jellyfish that reverts back to polyp (baby) stage after reproducing. It’s also a new candidate for future lord supreme overlord master of our species, just behind the alien invaders, robot army and fighting leprechauns. You heard it here first.

Totally awesome news… Coming soon: 3D porn.

Some strange news from Germany… German Woman Missing 12 Years Found Alive in Swiss Woods and then German crash-lands car on church roof.

Praise science… Alcohol stops men being a flop in bed.

Rock on science… Methane pockets may narrow search for Mars life.

Damn science… Our world may be a giant hologram.

And party because I hate you… From Warren Ellis’ site is the I Did Not Need To See That Imagethread (Jan 09). And you really don’t need to. You’ll be saying “Fuck you internet” like I tend to do way too often.

So I’ve been tremendously enjoying my holidays and have been spending it doing pretty much nothing. Well, nothing worth blogging about. Actually, that was another thing, I had taken an unannounced break from this website as well. But I’m back now. Still on holiday for another week, but I kinda miss the blogging. Plus I’ve bookedmarked way too many things to post to leave it aside anymore.

My friend Fin’s blog Dark in the Boy seems to be discontinued now. After only a few weeks of blogging and posting stuff, the bastard had already gathered more hits than this entire site has, the bastard. But I look forward to whatever new ventures he takes in the new year. No doubt it’ll be something shiny and impressive.

The Nokia Gunphone, it’s only a photoshopped concept photo, but screw it, I want one anyway.

Terry Pratchett is now Sir Terry of Pratchett.

Lots from New Scientist, but my favourites (which are mostly compilations to other favourites are seven mysteries of Earth, seven new wonders of the world, their top 10 articles for 2008 and one that muses on the cosmos’ existence before the big bang which features a couple of my favourite theories. All this theorising almost makes you want that Large Hadron Colider to get colliding, but I’m still okay with this universe existing for now… until our robots rise up and take over. Then I say fire away.

Can’t post anything properly today. Drank too much last night.

A two faced kitten was born in Australia and I immediately thought of Transmetropolitan. Should really send the link to Warren Ellis, reckon he’d dig it.

There’s a listing of 40 Exquisite Independent Film Posters and its a pretty good selection. Definitely a couple that I’d have on my list. There’s also an ever changing list of 100 Greatest Movie Posters which is also pretty neat-o.

A great New Scientist write up of why the universe most likely is teaming with extra-terrestrial life here.

Praise Science, Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell was on some radio show and stated that aliens are real and have made contact and goverments have covered it up but are slowly leaking it out now. Bunch of crazy talk. But awesome crazy talk and one I hope is real. I constantly fear the eventual robot take-over that is so going to happen soon, but with this news, we can look to our alien overlords to protect us. Some write ups on it here and the interview itself here.

Oh and further space sciene awesomeness… NASA wants to push forward the exploration and effects of sex in space. I’ve long put aside my dreams of wanting to be an astronaut years ago, but with this news I’m starting my trainning of lifting weights and dodging robot lasers today and signing up. Full read here.

Came to work to find my limited edition copy of Tekkonkinkreet finally arrived in the mail for me. Very happy.

Anyway, onto the internet, which is far more interesting at this point…

Article on a Japanese sect was raided by 400 police officers on suspicion of murder can be read here.

The awesomeness of nano technology has unveiled the world’s smalled radio, details here.

Stuff about Archinect but really cool writings on Russian futuristic architechture can be read here.

And an even cooler thing, though for how long it’ll be available, who knows? Is you can download a complete copy of Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Was made into the excellent film Stalker and probably my next thing to read. Even if its an eBook. You can try grabbing it here