Archive for October, 2006
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It is an indication of the scale of Russia’s drink problem that during an average month 3,500 people die after drinking fake vodka substitutes such as de-icers, anti-rust treatments and window-cleaning solutions.
42,000 people a year die from consumption of fake vodka! That’s more than a hundred people a day! The mind boggles…
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Oldest Bee fossil found - supports theories of bee evolution.
Pelican eats Pidgeon - would make the pelican a flying cat for eating the flying rat…What would be the flying dog?
Read about Aerogels - amazing stuff by the sounds of things…
Got nothing planned for the weekend? Help search for interstellar dust!!
STEREO
• Thursday, October 26th, 2006
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Nasa is set to launch two satellites to gain a better idea of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that spew out of the sun, typically throwing into space a billion tonnes of material from the Sun’s atmosphere, at speeds of about 400km/s.
The study is designed to study the solar eruptions, the ’space weather’ they create, and […]
SS Nazi Video
• Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
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Here is a link to a BBC news article on a SS Officer’s home video of a labour camp in southern Russia. The reel turned up in a little county church in Devon, UK.
It would be good to see the whole video; maybe it’ll turn up on Youtube soon enough…
Unity for All…
• Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
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Except poofters and lezzos…
It would seem that Archbishop Peter Jensen strongly feels we need to move towards more conservative values on a global scale. He has foreseen a strong leadership role for his diocese in helping ‘band together’ conservative Anglican leaders to create unity. Unity against the ordination of gays and lesbians that […]
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We had been warned by nigh-on every traveller of the potential inconveniences that awaited us in India. None was as pertinent as the threat of Delhi belly, sure to be encountered by every traveller to the sub-continent. Apart from a few minor discomforts and belly-wobbles during the first week of our trip, we […]
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So I’ve been thinking a lot about electricity recently. A little too much perhaps, but it is fair to say it has occupied a few milliwatthours of my brain’s supply. Anyways, I’ve got something ticking away in the back of my head for future months; but in the meantime I just thought I’d […]
OM Goodness
• Thursday, October 19th, 2006
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If they weren’t being so serious, this would be the funniest website ever. And I’m pretty sure their visitor numbers have multiplied manyfold since being shown on boingboing.net.
So whithout further ado, here is the ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture.
Notable mentions -
Napolean Dynamite - for its
* attention to crotch
* crotch injury
* pelvic […]
Meh…
• Thursday, October 19th, 2006
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Bored at work and I stumbled on this ripper pic from a random website… cracker!
Yay…
• Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
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So after a few failed attempts…mainly due to trying to complete two steps in one, I now have my blog set up on a spanking new wholly Jameses-owned (well my part anyways) server…
Keep on the lookout for more random dribble and a few possible goodies in coming times…