http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/040719_qztl/index.html

Construction work world’s highest railway is now complete and test runs are scheduled for July 2006 with commercial operation set for 2007.

The special train will be equipped with an oxygen providing system, making it easier for passengers to endure the thinner-air in the so-called “roof of the world”.

http://www.ukexpert.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=8111&cat=500&ppuser=296

The Bliss Mill, Chipping Norton, Oxon.
Click again for a larger image

http://www.kurtvonnegut.com/

http://www.njedge.net/~knapp/NewsOfFu.htm

From the page: “”Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government–which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.”

— Nayland Smith to Dr. Petrie,
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu,

Sax Rohmer drew on fears of the ‘Yellow Peril’ which still have resonances today despite the prevalence of ‘Political Correctness’.

You can read this story for free at Project Gutenberg and come to your own conclusions:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=173

Many thanks to atongchan http://atongchan.stumbleupon.com/ who started me on this train of thought with this link:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0407/p09s03-coop.html

Which attempts to move beyond old stereotypes of China.

http://www.shurelo.ru/

More eye candy for you to enjoy!

http://www.jet2.com/News.aspx?id=65

This Yorkshire airline doing it’s bit to improve Anglo-French relations.

Incidently, neither this graphic or the article can be found on the French language version of Jet2’s site.

http://www.audreyhepburn.com/

Below is a poem Audrey Hepburn wrote when asked to share her “beauty tips.” It was read at her funeral years later.

* For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
* For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
* For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
* For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
* For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

http://www.taxationweb.co.uk/

From the page: “TaxationWeb is a free database of UK tax information for accountants and the general public.”

http://members.tripod.com/keesstam/palmermain.html

Harry Palmer was a gritty, down-to-earth alternative to the super-spy image of the ’60s. And, although the Bond craze was in full swing when the Ipcress File premiered, audiences found Palmer appealing.

Michael Caine says,”Maybe because Harry represents us, all of us. He’s not like some giant superman…like James Bond. What he was, was a government guy who went out into danger where we would never dare to go. But he was ordinary, like us, and also seemed like a loser, but he wins. So I think when you’re in the audience, you do identify with him tremendously, which makes for great suspense, because you’re worried about what’s going to happen to him.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4835314.stm

http://www.trilobites.info/

Trilobites, despite some similarities should not to be confused with the Horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus

http://www.amonline.net.au/insects/images/ectoparasites/400/ctenocephalides_felis.jpg

Ctenocephalides felis scourge of cat owners everywhere.

http://www.amonline.net.au/insects/index.cfm?id=1

Online Entomology from Australia.

http://www.moneylaidbare.info/

A basic and impartial site that gives advice about financial planning.
Take the Financial Health check and it will provide simple yet sage advice that you can disregard at your peril.

http://www.mrs-trellis.co.uk/

From this site you can play Mornington crescent, naturally, but be aware that the Pauli-Braithwaite Northern-line exclusion principle may be in play…

http://mingmong.stumbleupon.com/

Welcome to stumbleupon and the stumbleupon china group http://china.group.stumbleupon.com/.

http://www.chethams.org.uk/

From the page: “Chetham’s Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.
It is an independent charity and remains open to readers and visitors free of charge.”

http://www.faulkingtruth.com/KensQuote/

From the page: “Nothing in this world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

New quotations added regularly.

http://www.yourgenome.org/

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Nice site but…

The advanced section is ‘in production’ however, the site hasn’t been updated for four years.

Update: site has been updated recently (July 2007)

http://www.bisque.com/thesky/brian/19980302.htm

As March begins, Leo the lion is rising in the East…

…and as March ends, Aries the ram–or lamb–is setting in the West.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/24/ispa_villain/

“The UK presidency of the European Union received this award for seeking EU wide data retention laws which will force ISPs and telcos to retain more data for longer without proper impact assessment,” a spokesman for UK internet trade group ISPA said.

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/games/index.html

A positive plethora of pastimes past and present from pernicious pastimes to pragmatics and patterns of pedagogy, pieces and parodies and paradigms of prosperity.

http://pageone.stumbleupon.com/

Powerful imagery.

http://www.greenhowards.org.uk/kenneth-taylor/index.htm

From the page: “In 1944, Lieutenant Kenneth Taylor of the Green Howards recorded his experiences in an “illegal” wartime diary.

Mr Taylor presented a transcript of his diary to the Green Howards Regimental Museum. Serving soldiers were forbidden from keeping diaries, so he wrote his entries secretly every evening in a liberated German exercise book. In it he details his experiences in 1944 from D-Day in June through to the end of the year.

With the 6th Battalion The Green Howards he moved through France and Belgium into Holland, arriving at the Nijmegen Bridge across the River Waal just a few days after its capture by the Allied troops. The bridge was a vital objective on the advance of Allies into Germany.”

http://rembailey.stumbleupon.com/

Please give a warm welcome to http://rembailey.stumbleupon.com/ a “retired economist, keen sailor, philosophical sceptic, and general ‘pain in the bum’.”

His retirement looks pretty good judging by this picture.

http://zaneucb.stumbleupon.com/

Welcome to stumbleupon.

http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/lunbases.htm

Visions of proposed Lunar bases past and present.

http://www.orientaloutpost.com/proddetail.php?prod=0yyf

http://whitedog.typepad.com/test_bed/images/president_ronald_reagan.jpg

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down: up to man’s age-old dream — the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

Ronald Reagan, Republican National Convention, 1964

http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/pages/callingboys14.htm

From the page: “Of course at the time J. Edgar Hoover was known only as the ramrod straight and morally unquestionable head of the F.B.I. – but with the perspective of history we can now enjoy the sublime irony of this odd cover!!”

http://www.chinasite.com/

http://www.westernunion.com/info/osTelegram.asp

The Telegram R.I.P.

http://www.beatrixwillius.de/gallery/gallery_am_7_20.html

Wanna buy some snowcrash?

http://www.lunaestas.com/blackadder/

Edmund, a poem by Queenie.

When the clouds are dark, and the dogs go bark,
When the sky is black, and the ducks go quack,
When the sky is blue, and the cows go moooooooo,
Think of lovely Queenie, She’ll be thinking of you.

(Title suggested by William Shakespeare)

http://www.gcarlson.com/microbial_spikedbacilli.htm

From the site ”

Dermatophytes
Varieties of fungal dermatophytes that infect human skin and hair.”

http://www.sloansfineart.com/art_gallery/Images/Valley%20of%20Death.JPG

Into The Valley

Into the Valley
Betrothed and divine
Realisations no virtue
But who can define
Why soldiers go marching
Those masses a line
This disease is catching
From victory to stone

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die

Out of concealment
Blank and stark eyed
Why so uncertain
This culture deceives
Prophesised, brainwashed
Tomorrow’s demise
All systems failing
The placards unroll

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die

Time for the audit
The gathering trial
A collectors dilemma
Repositioned and filed

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/soyuznick/interior/

http://www.simpsonschannel.com/

From the page: “Billy West, voice of Phillip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, and others, today confirmed via his website forum that new episodes of Futurama have been greenlit by FOX.”

http://www.npm.gov.tw/

In 1949 the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek (Jiǎng Ji