Nature of Man

… nothing that happens to Man is ever natural …

The Greenhouse - this is how the sentient gasbags living in the high-temperature soup-thick atmospheric strata of Jupiter lovingly call the Earth, waiting for the proteinous vermin to finally die off so they can take it as a summer residence. The said vermin is divided on this subject in two camps - USA and The Rest of the World. Australia is also said to be a side, but it is hard to get it classified, as it is neither USA nor The Rest of the World.

While The Rest of the World is attempting to decrease the emissions of greenhouse gasses (check out The Kyoto Protocol), USA is attempting its Nth successive Guiness World Record on emitting carbon dioxide into The Rest of the World’s atmosphere, currently topping the charts with 5.5 metric tons per capita, per annum (profound, eh? :).

The Rest of the World has no idea how to improve the situation, and is maybe hoping that the next global warming enhanced hurricane hitting USA will - instead of killing people and/or destroying their homes - choose a deserted spot (in plain view of the satellites of course) and write in 30 foot Times New Roman:

Just ratify the bloody protocol already, mmkay?
– Love, God.

(Yeah, whoever knows me may find it strange that I blog about Chess and not Go, but read on…)

It seems that Bulgaria is currently on top of several Chess tournaments.

We have
- Vesselin Topalov as “FIDE World Chess Champion”,
- Antoaneta Stefanova as “Women’s World Chess Champion” (second year in row)
- Liuben Spassov as number one in World Senior Chess Championship
       and last but certainly far from least, (do sit down, please),
- Tihomir “Tigertad” Titschko as a champion of the European Chessboxing Championship.

Expect more Bulgarian winnings on the oncoming International Christmas Synchronised Swimming and Underwater Team Chess Tournament and the Summer/Winter 2006 highlights, European Curling Ice Chess - Female Cup and World Youth Blitz Blindfold Bowling Chess

( Ah yeah, we were also the first to issue a Chess stamp (1947) )

Can you believe that there are bunnies that do not think of suicide? Neither did I, until another bunny meme reached me with desire of nothing other but world domination.

I, for one, welcome our new lagomorph overlord!

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(=’.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny into your
(”)_(”) webpage to help him gain world domination.

As a not too original reprise of the West vs East theme, here’s a sample western origami, using - as in many other western affairs - nothing other than money.
Compare to, for example, an eastern sample.