There is a new conspiracy that may be costing people their lives, this conspiracy is called Smart Tan. Ever since Clare Oliver died blaming UV tanning for her skin cancer, the salons have absolutely shit themselves. They are terrified they will go the way of the cigarette and be, rightly, demonised for their adverse health effects.

Ever since I heard about the idea of tanning under UV lamps I knew it had to be bad. How could baking yourself in such an unnatural manner be good for you? It was widely assumed that solariums were bad for you. I strongly advised my female friends to not go to them. I called them the man sized microwave.

Now that the danger of solariums has been so publicly aired the tanning salons have turned to a bunch of professional liars. This group is called Smart Tan. Smart Tan is a bunch of lawyers, doctors and scientists who have the “truth” on their side. These guys have supposedly proven that tanning is fine provided you take certain precautions, but all it really proves is that if you pay someone enough you can get them to say anything.

Tanning salons have been sending out letters to their customers advising them of the falsehood of Clare Oliver’s allegations. They have even started advertising on the television. These people are deluding themselves if they think their word is going to be trusted above a girls dying words.

The age of UV tanning is over, the tanning salon’s should realise this and move on to the alternatives.

There is a game, its browser-based, its massively multiplayer and has over a billion players. It is not prohibitively expensive to play and it is not resource intensive; you won’t need to install a new graphics card to play when this game. This game doesn’t necessarily require a lot of attention, you can check on it once a week or once per hour and still be successful either way. The great thing about this game is if you are good at it, it pays! The best thing about this game is it is fun. What is this game? Why the sharemarket of course.

I play world of Warcraft. To start with I was crap, but over a period of years I have become very good at the game, but now I’m sick of it. And what have I achieved playing this game? Lots of wasted time where I could have been writing. I could have written several novels in all the time I’ve wasted playing this game. But with the sharemarket you may lose to begin with, but when you get good at playing the sharemarket you win in more than one way. It is not wasted time.

Anyway I think I’ll sign up. I will tell you how I do.

Over the past few months a troll has been haunting An Onymous Lefty. As visitors to Jeremy’s site will know this troll is named mighty matt, he leaves a ridiculous amount of comments on nearly every single post Jeremy does. I always thought Jeremy was a reasonable person, but for whatever reason mighty matt never seems to agree with anything he says. Most bloggers, even Right-Wing Death Beasts, do agree with Jeremy from time to time, but this guy never does. Does matt have some axe to grind with Jeremy?

Most bloggers start as commenters and it is about bloody time mighty matt moved on and started his own blog. It is only a matter time before other commenters start completely ignoring the guy.

If you agree or disagree that mighty matt needs a blog leave a comment I’d love to know what you think.

PS I am still getting used to Dragon Naturally Speaking so if there are any horrendous grammatical errors blame it not me.

I have found wonderful new piece of software. I was speaking to my friend Ryan the other day, he has Muscular Dystrophy, just like me, and he has difficulty typing, just like me. He asked me if I used voice recognition software? I told him no. He told me he used Dragon Naturally Speaking and that its really quite good. So, on his advice I went down to Harvey Norman today, and got Dragon Naturally Speaking version 9. I am not being paid to say this by the way. And I actually did say that because I’m using it to type this now. It is incredibly accurate, although I had to teach it fuck, fucking, dildo and I haven’t got around to teaching it cunt yet (as you can see from the title) – but I will. It is correct about 90% of the time, so I do have to read through and change some words that it gets wrong.

This is the event we have all been dreading, an Australian has been killed in Afghanistan. This is all very tragic, but one thing that annoyed me is reports that the bomb may have been from Iran. The reports provide no proof of this. They don’t state a source, but every single news agency including Channel 2 reported this. The thing is it doesn’t make sense for Iran to be supplying weapons to the Taleban. Iran is a Shia country and the Taleban Sunni they are ideologically opposed. Furthermore, most of Iran’s weapons are supplied by China, wouldn’t they be pissed off the Iran is supplying terrorists who live right next door? This sounds like American propaganda to me, maybe I’m just paranoid. It seems very coldhearted, someone to squeeze this piece of political propaganda into something tragic like this. It’s just plain rude and shows disrespect for the soldier killed

By the way Right-Wing Death Beasts. This does not mean that I’d hate America, that I wish America to lose in Afghanistan or Iraq. This does not mean I have a passionate love for Iran, or that I’d think that their leader is a lovely person. I don’t, I think he’s a scumbag. Sorry, I just need to make that clear.

Apparently, this guy was told he had bowel cancer and was given three months to live. The next day, he told his family, and soon after tried to commit suicide. Luckily, his wife found him and saved his life. A week later he found out that his bowel wall sample was mixed up with somebody else’s, and that he was fine.

This poor guy is scarred for life, but really think about it. We are all dying. Every day we wake up and we are a day closer to our funeral. Death is an everyday thing. You may think that I should shut the fuck up, but consider this. I’ve been told I was going to die more than once, I’ve been given a couple of weeks. Do I kill myself? Do I give up? No! I get a second opinion. This guy needs to harden the fuck up.

Some people would consider such an event, a positive thing, because it allows them to find out what means most to them in life. Nothing makes your life brighter than finding out you were going to live after thinking you are going to die. This guy should grab this gift with both hands, but instead, he lets it ruin his life.