Thursday, September 08, 2005

A Scarlet Doc Plug-in

Well, one stunning piece of magic from Henry in an otherwise deathly dull game and it looks all over for our World Cup qualification. Brian Kerr can claim otherwise but we didn't show much last night to inspire confidence. And if five guys, drinking beers and sitting around the telly, in Cork City know that Docherty (a centre-back who abjectly failed to make it in the premiership) isn't good enough a centre forward to trouble the French, then why doesn't the manager of our national team. The one silver lining on the night was that the North beat England 1-0, not that I wish to upset any of our English based readers. It's as much the whole underdog thing, as anything else. Also I'm delighted to see Micheal Owen jumping to the defence of Sven - the players must share the blame for the defeat. No shit, Micheal. Incidently, just to make this all seem relevant to the funny cartoons, I watched the match with these guys.

Cork-born footballing legend Noel Cantwell has died at the age of 72 after a battle with cancer. The former Cork Athletic, West Ham and Man. United defender (and occasional centre-forward) was capped 36 times for his country. He will, forever, be remembered as one of our greats.

You can now get a Firefox plug-in for the new Webcomics Wiki thingy.

Found through Warren Ellis, Scientists have developed an ultra-light limb that they claim can mimic the movement in a real hand better than any currently available. I have the use of both my arms and I still want one. I'm not sure where I'd put it though.

And, while I don't want to start turning this into a babes 'n' football site, a link over at this is anfield reminded me of something odd. For quite a while after she arrived on the scene, I just didn't get Scarlet Johansson. I mean, I was willing to acknowledge that she was, for all intents and purposes, an attractive looking lass. However, I just didn't go for her to any great degree. Until recently and now I can't understand what I was thinking because she's a fucking stunner.