enterprising car thieves

Car criminals have produced their own video and are selling it on the streets of Belfast, it emerged last night.

The graphic, half-hour film of joyriders racing around the west of the city, is on sale for £2 on video or £5 on DVD.

It shows gangs of car thieves as young as 13, driving at high speed, doing handbrake turns, watched by groups of younger children in the Grosvenor Road area.

The home-made movie came to light a few weeks ago when community workers from the area were given copies. It is believed the video, which was shot from a house and also in the back of a stolen car, was made just after Christmas. (Irish Times)

from the latest Continental Airlines newsletter

"You'll Love Our Foreign Policy."

Now, what could that possibly be referring to?

mostly good

This turned up on Zed's bloggy thing (MemeMachineGo): What the Bubble Got Right. It's an interesting read, but I disagree with one sentence in it: "Good ideas always tend to win eventually." I think that belongs in the same bucket as "there's someone for everyone" and "what goes around comes around" and other such wishful thinking. Bad ideas win on a regular basis, and just because they get trumped fifty years down the line doesn't mean they didn't win. Chances are they got trumped by a worse idea, anyway.