The Indian People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) wishes to send you kind felicitations on the second day of their annual week of action.

As is traditional during the festivities of “PLGA Week” – people in the affected regions of India will see a glorious increase in bombings, attacks and general thuggery.

All funds raised will go towards creating the greater Indian Democratic Communist Utopia.

If you do encounter any of our revolutionary Naxalites, please remember to wish them a very Merry PLGA Week!

Commemorative gift cards can be found at your local branch of Hallmark

One hundred years ago, a huge explosion was heard in Wembley, Nth London - by the site of the modern day soccer stadium. It wasn’t an accident though, but a the final death throws of an ill-fated attempt to give London its very own “Eiffel Tower”.

A bit of history then. The Chairman of London’s Metropolitan Railway, Sir Edward Watkin MP proposed the building of a huge tower at Wembley to rival that of the Eiffel Tower and would have been over 1200 feet tall some 300 feet taller than the Paris version. He even tried to get Gustave Eiffel to design his version - although the Frenchman declined the offer.

His motivation was not solely national pride, as the railway company was expanding its network into the lightly populated North London, and he felt the tower would become a landmark and tourist attraction, attracting not just day trippers on his railway, but also making it easier to sell housing on the land the company owned in the area.

Work on the new tower began in 1891 in a park, but when the park opened in 1894 the tower had reached a height of only 47 metres (155 feet), due to unstable foundations. By the end of the year - the money for the tower had run out, and it was left there, like an unstable stump for the next decade until it was demolished so that the metal could be reused for the war effort. The tower did open to the public though, as they put an observation platform at the top and there were cafes and shops at the foot of the tower. In a way, it did become sort of a tourist attraction, if not in the way that the founder had expected.

In 1907, the concrete foundations were finally demolished in a controlled explosion so that the land could be reused. Part of the foundation survived though, and was uncovered during the recent redevelopment of the Wembley Stadium. To give you an idea of the scale of the foundations - they lie directly underneath most of the football pitch.

Due to its incomplete status, the part built tower became known as Watkins Folly.

Image from Brent Council Archives

Local area map showing the location of the tower

Tired of all that sanctimonious crap inside The Bible ?

Replace it with something vastly more interesting instead then….

Via The Green Head

The Good Book Flask is the ultimate place to stash your booze. On the outside, it appears to be a regular Bible, but on the inside is a secret hidden compartment that hides a stainless steel flask. I wouldn’t bring it to Church with you for any reason and recommend filling it with wine only, but it’s your soul. So wrong and yet so cool.

Official Description:

“All your secret prayers have been answered. From the outside, there’s nothing more to see than a gold-embossed bible, held shut with an elastic closure. On the inside, blank pages are die-cut to hide a brushed stainless steel flask. Because honesty truly is the best policy, right?”

Consider two seemingly unrelated issues:

A combination of CCTVs, biometrics, databases and tracking technologies has resulted in Britain becoming the most spied on nation in the world, according to a government privacy watchdog.

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=333302&ssid=204&sid=LIF

and….

British health officials claim obesity in UK should be confronted with professionalism as a recent survey indicated Brits are Europe’s fattest citizens.

http://www.spotlightingnews.com/article.php?news=2947

Now, as every lady will know, the camera adds 10 pounds to your weight.

Logically, it is now obvious that the expansion of the use of CCTVs in the UK is the direct cause of the expansion of waistlines in the UK.

Eliminate the CCTVs and solve the obesity epidemic.

Obvious really.

Samsung has partnered with Korea University to develop a machine-gun equipped sentry robot, which consists of “two cameras: one for day-time and one for infrared night vision, zooming capabilities, a speaker for notifying the intruder, sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans/trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun.

Video here