PS: Osama’s mansion/compound apparently had no internet access, to avoid attracting attention from US intelligence: in the end, this very anomaly was one of the things that attracted their attention. If he’d got broadband, but only used it to look at old Dr Who clips on YouTube, he might have got away with it.
PPS: It’s come to my attention that if you Google “osama bin laden what really happened” at the moment, this post appears on the first page. If that’s how you came here, welcome! Feel free to have a look around. Let us know what you think. Fancy a cup of tea, maybe a custard cream? And, um, yes. Terror of the Autons. Sorry about that.
PPPS: OK, if you do want something a bit meatier, here’s DE Wittkower’s splendid piece on the role of social media in the search for Osama; and here’s a slightly more depressing roundup of some of the Facebook responses to the big news; and here’s evidence that dead-tree media hasn’t been doing that much better.
PPS: It’s come to my attention that if you Google “osama bin laden what really happened” at the moment, this post appears on the first page. If that’s how you came here, welcome! Feel free to have a look around. Let us know what you think. Fancy a cup of tea, maybe a custard cream? And, um, yes. Terror of the Autons. Sorry about that.
PPPS: OK, if you do want something a bit meatier, here’s DE Wittkower’s splendid piece on the role of social media in the search for Osama; and here’s a slightly more depressing roundup of some of the Facebook responses to the big news; and here’s evidence that dead-tree media hasn’t been doing that much better.
7 comments:
Blimey he's got away!
That was all a bit Scooby Doo.
Your name isn't really Tim, is it? I believe you're Julian Assange.
One beard does looks very much like another.
I’ve argued before that George W Bush would have been better off if he’d watched Genesis of the Daleks; now it seems that if he’d added Terror of the Autons to the list we'd all have been saved a lot of bother.
And of course the character who was behind the Master mask was played by Michael Wisher, who went on to be the first ever Davros... do you see? DO? YOU? SEE?
Good Lord, that synth takes me back to GCSE music. It sounds like someone's shoved an autotuner up their rump...
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