Category Archives: Wasting time

“The financial stability of the entire world has for a long time been based on a curious salad of hypothetical bits of paper, made up words, things that don’t exist, guesswork, and the fragile confidence of fiscal tricksters. In essence, the whole unappetizing package of world economics is just an intermittently lucrative modern day form of witchcraft, only with more cackling, limousines instead of broomsticks, and the tacit approval of the Church.”

- Andy Zaltzman

First things first: I absolutely love my Kindle. I first got one for Christmas last year and I can honestly say not a day has passed since where I haven’t used it. Now, the Kindle itself is fantastic, but it’s just my nature to want to poke around with it to see what else the user can do.

It wasn’t long before I found the MobileRead Wiki article on jailbreaking your Kindle to enable you to add your own screensaver images. Being a long-time Internaut, despite myself, I love Rage comics. You know, the MS Paint comics made by anonymous oddballs to express frustration over everyday hassles. Wouldn’t it be nice, I thought, if I could get hold of a range of Rage comic characters and prepare them nicely for the Kindle?

After watching the amazing third Family Guy Star Wars special “It’s a Trap” I was reminded of a strange theory about Star Wars history. I must have read it once years ago but some parts of it stuck in my mind. After a heap of Googling I found that the original article at http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.html is no longer online. Via the Internet Wayback Machine I was able to resurrect the original text.

It is preserved here in case anybody wants to read it in future.