Bargain Villa in Iraq? not likely mate.

I was cleaning out my long list of favourites and saw this old link to a short boingboing.net story from 2004.

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/12/wanna-buy-a-villa-in.html

The gist of it being that you could buy a sweet villa, complete with extras like an air raid bunker in the basement for $665,000, BARGAIN!

So i clicked on it anyway and sadly the property page said:

"Sorry, this property is no longer available"

Then i clicked on the link just below it to see what else was on offer in the villa department for Iraq, and this page came up http://www.viviun.com/AD-113520/

I couldnt believe it, its the same damn property, but the price tag has gone up to $720,000!!!!
A jump of almost 55,000 in 4 years for a property in Baghdad!
How the hell is their property appreciating in value with a war going on?
And then theres the fact that the villa itself is a ugly beast of a building inside and out!

I was kinda expecting something more extravagant for that price tag/location, maybe somethings like this:
http://www.courttv.com/graphics/onair/shows/hollywood_heat/new/photos/AD_modelhome208.jpg

:)

CERN and the end of the world....

Apparently theres a big fuss over this thing.
If you've not heard of it, and im speaking to you directly because its not likely that anyone but you will read my blog *sighhhh*,
The LHC is a big ass ring that the big wigs are hoping to use to find the higgs boson particle aka the "god particle" which could lead to a deeper understanding of how the universe works. etc. etc. blah blah blah.
I dont understand why theres such panic really, we should be looking for the silver lining!

I suggest that we go stand in the middle of this ring.
Why you ask? We'll if comics have have taught me nothing, and they have, its that this is a prime location for the creation (we'll say accidental) of a super powered superhero!

Heres the plan,
go stand in the middle of this ring, see image below for artists impression:























next wait for sept 10th when theyre flicking the switch... (and if they have any style at all itll be like a mad scientist or maybe Joker style "and hereee weeee GO!" but with considerably more fireworks)

*KA-chunnnk*


then seconds later:



























TA DAAAAAA!

With the size of this installation id be hoping for Doctor Manhattan type powers, who the world will soon know if the new Watchmen film ever gets out....