I want Forbidden Lego!

A day after criticizing Sky News propensity for leading with inconsequential stories, I find a bizare story on sky (although they didn't lead with it) that I love: Forbidden Lego

I wish I had this book when I used to play with Lego

Although, the article would suggest that this idea would not be palatable to all:

"Kids could make atomic bombs out of LEGO, and just think what would happen if some Islamic terrorist get hold of a copy. The possibilities are terrifying."

Sky News - The first for irrelevant, inconsequential news.

Sky News is among the sites that I visit quite frequently when I've nothing better to do. Way back in the day when I watched TV, Sky News was the default channel, so I said.."Hey why not take a look at their website".

To be fair, its a reasonably good site and has improved since adopting a new look incorporating more video content over the past 4-5 months.

But what consistently pisses me off is the frequency with which they not just feature but lead with matters relating to the English Premiership and other ridiculous non-stories (and I'm not saying that the English Premiership is a ridiculous non-story)

I can understand the English Premiership stories due to Sky's commercial interests but leading with stories such as this one about a Chinese girl undergoing surgery to remove a third arm is beginning to grate.

I feel compelled to offer more evidence but none immediately comes to mind; which to a certain extent proves my point of sorts; that these stories are irrelevant and imminently forgettable.

But anyway....I need to find an alternative news site.

Martin McGuinness - Trend setter and fashion icon

Sites about mens fashion.....thats what I was looking for and I ended up at men.style.com. Not quite aimed at poor students in the fashion mecca of Edinburgh but alas.

Wandering into their Trend Report section, I see a picture straight out of Devs Ireland (transposed to New York), a red haired guy dressed in tweed accompanied by the title: "Eire Apparent". Being from "Eire", I was of course, intrigued.

Flicking through a slideshow, I come across a reference to the awful Wind that Shakes the Barley and then this:
I was immediately reminded of pictures and footage of Martin McGuinness; Northern Irelands deputy first minister and one half of the chuckle brothers, back in the 70s, when he was an upcoming young "freedom fighter". Wanting to confirm that my intuition was correct on this, it was off to Google with me where querying Martin McGuinness (along with the addition of MacStiofain) yielded this (note the vague correspondence in jumpers/tops):


So there you have it: Martin McGuinness; style icon and trend setter well before its time. Isn't it a pity that he was behind the times in other respects?

An (Re) Introduction

This is a spin off or continuation of a previous blog I started on the concept of wilfing; the practice of aimlessly surfing the web. While I liked to idea and desperately wanted to make an effort, after 2 posts in 6 months, I felt that it wasn't really working out with wilf-owi.

So what will be different about this blog?

In theory, not much.

There will be some changes. While the two posts at wilfer concentrated on the practice of wilfing, the scope of this blog will be a little wider; namely everything....or at least anything that I encounter on the web and feel is worthy of comment.

Admittedly, the previous blog was to evolve in that manner, but again in a more constrained manner. I don't particularly want to constrain myself. Authorities on successful blogging would seem to advocate that concentrating on a single topic or niche is more conducive to success; and perhaps they are right. But following an evolution that has occurred in my world view in the past year, I feel I should just blog and see what (shit) happens.

But this is venturing in the realms of profundity. If I'm entirely honest, the main reason for the change is that I quite like the moniker wilfman and unlike wilfer, wilfman.com was available!

So......let shit happen