Meriblog: Meri Williams' Weblog

“Girls as young as eight are being forced to have sex in exchange for food by workers for local and international agencies”
Absolutely horrendous to see this sort of abuse. As if these poor people don’t have enough to contend with.

Whatever the outcome of the rape trail, the most shocking thing will remain the “a shower prevents you contracting HIV” bullshit.

“Yahoo’s new software system aims to let advertisers target potential customers more accurately based upon the words users type into the search box.”
Erm, kinda like Adwords then…?

“Sony currently dominates the console market, having sold more than 100 million PlayStation 2s, compared to 24 million Microsoft Xbox consoles and 21 million Nintendo GameCubes.”
Wow, I’d never realised that Sony was THAT far out in front…

Glad this issue is finally getting some attention. When I first moved to the UK from South Africa, I was outright shocked at how many girls thought that the pill was all they needed. There’s a tendency to forget that AIDS isn’t just a third world disease

Full transcript of Colbert’s Bush-bashing. NSFW, just because you’ll end up laughing your ass off!

“St Andrews University researchers studying in Florida…”
LOL, 3 year jolly to Florida from SCOTLAND … I would make up any kinda shit for that holiday too!