'Thou shalt never question Stephen Fry'...

If you can look past the obvious horror of what the Russian government are doing in Georgia (and stop laughing as the Russians claim this is because the Georgians are guilty of 'genocide') one of the more interesting aspects of...

"Thousands of social welfare details on stolen laptop - Personal details of 380,000 social welfare recipients were stored on a laptop which went missing..." Story from the Irish Times...

Oslo's massive outdoor summer music festival is called Øya, but the first night of the festival takes place indoors in all the clubs in town, and is called Klubbøya. This year my band Dacianos played Klubbøya....

Photo: ©Kim Haughton 'So, you had a book published then did ye?' he says, tipping the brim of his hat back from his eyes. They were slightly bloodshot, with a hint of mischief about them. 'Well, sort of,' I...

Simply brilliant. 'People won't be people when they hear this sound That's been glowing in the dark at the edge of town People won't be people, no The people won't be people when they hear this sound Won't you show...

Not literally you understand, she's just visiting. Sorry - couldn't resist it. More info here....

The European Commission has delayed a vital vote on the protection of forests from illegal logging till September. Greenpeace want to make sure the commissioners don't forget about it during their summer holiday - so they're suggesting that you get...

Ahoy hoy. Have a rummage around our virtual Blather HQ. Bejaysus, you can even see Daev's bed. (Google account required). Built with Google's Lively....

Blather.net sat down with mercurial artist Fred Einaudi to get the skinny on his provocative and apocalyptic art, the finer points of using oil on canvas and a plan to annihilate loud motorbike drivers....

I'll tell you what it means. It is the new slang term for "not giving a fuck when children die". Two roma girls drowned on a beach near Naples. Their bodies were left on the beach by authorities while Italian...

Tradition dictates that the Friday Choon is usually some obscure, painfully knowing piece of musical toss, but this week we have a slightly more modern offering. High-Church of WebTech Nerdness meets Glorious Planet Saving Music in a brilliant video and...

Man with tortoise, Kamakura Originally uploaded by blather Man with tortoise, Kamakura, near Tokyo Japan. This fellow appear to be out walking his tortoise - which, contrary to well known fables, was moving pretty quickly, trotting alongside him and...

(image 'adolescent paranoia' by Dr. Joanne) WAR! Old-school blather readers will know that Blather.net spent many of its formative years talking about, looking for and worrying about that most insidious of modern phenomena - the UFO. Indeed, as Daev...

Via Thriving too. How the number 350 will save the world. Visit 350.org...

Recently Aftenposten reported that new statistics show that one in four people living in Oslo is a foreign immigrant, i.e. non-Norwegian, i.e. like me. The breakdown goes like this: Year: 1998. Population of Oslo: 499,693. No. of immigrants: 85,550. Percentage:...

I've been looking through my uploaded photos of recent art exhibitions and music shows we've put on. There's a lot missing (sorry Jens Hamran, sorry Somadrone) but here's some pics that weren't lost. First off, the Hilmar Fredriksen exhibition....

Reports of 'Ghost' attacks are worrying authorities in Mombasa, Kenya. From the EastStandard.net: 'Last year, 'ghosts' attacked Mbaraki Primary School. Then Mombasa Mayor Sharrif Shekue rushed to the school with two goats - a black and a white, which were...

A stark warning to women who think they can get dressed in the dark! "A teenager spoke of her shock today after finding a bat curled up in the bra she had been wearing for five hours." This story from...

You just can't slow down German director Werner Herzog. If he's not fighting with Klaus Kinski in the jungles of South America, he's getting shot at - and wounded - during TV interviews in Los Angeles. Or he's rescuing Joaquin...

In a week of grim rulings which saw an increasing corporate invasion of webspace and privacy, this is great news. A Belfast blogger has won a crucial ruling in Belfast's Magistrates' Court. 'Alan Murray's blog highlighting violence, vandalism and...

A hilarious article has appeared in Dagbladet detailing the destruction that occurred on Spasibar's last night. Here's a photo from Dagbladet showing how they trashed the furniture - but even though the business is in a building owned by...

In keeping with our ridiculously inconsistent semi-regular posting of obscure electronica and technohead videos, this week we bring you some rare Depeche Mode footage. The meta on the Youtube page says that this was filmed on the 26th of September...

She's back in the news! The 'psychic' Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise (pictured above). The controversy this time is that her angel school has begun courses for children....

A large bar on the posh side of Oslo, in a building connected to the art academy. Toys, mannequins, porcelain dogs, photographs and junk are everywhere. The staff are wearing robes and wigs. Crazy music is playing. At the...

Now Tarawatch have issued a press release (through their site and their Facebook/Myspace pages) which picks up on a cited article from Ireland's Mail on Sunday. The article states that archaeologist Jo Ronayne is claiming that the data in...

'The only new things are those which have been forgotten'. Movie by Seb Janiak. The Orion Conspiracy (via Strange Attractor)...

Click for larger cover image Norwegian readers be aware! The book I wrote with Blather.net's Dave Walsh and Damien DeBarra is now available to buy in Oslo. A Load of Blather: Unreal Reports from Ireland and Beyond is the...

"Yeah, that was going to be a masterpiece, a magnum opus. I still think those first two issues are among some of the best comic work of that period" - Alan Moore, in the blather interview. Only two issues...

"Yeah, that was going to be a masterpiece, a magnum opus. I still think those first two issues are among some of the best comic work of that period" - Alan Moore told Blather.net. Only two issues came out and...