http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/moviemashups/
The Blackcurrant Foundation
http://www.blackcurrantfoundation.co.uk/
“Bred especially for their deep purple colour which indicates a high level of anthocyanins – important disease-fighting antioxidants – British blackcurrants are a deliciously healthy addition to recipes.”
How to permanently delete your facebook account. | Facebook
http://www.sheep101.info/Images/sheep_racing.jpg
A photo taken of myself myself, Capt Cloggy and Master Li many years ago at the sheep races.
I remember that year Cloggy won 5/- and that was enough to buy us all pie and a pint at the Mason Arms.
Happy memories.
ericenglishs favorite websites – StumbleUpon
“I don’t care if Monday’s blue
Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don’t care about you
It’s Friday, I’m in love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn’t even start
It’s Friday I’m in love
I don’t care if Mondays black
Tuesday, Wednesday – heart attack
Thursday, never looking back
It’s Friday, I’m in love
Monday, you can hold your head
Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday – watch the walls instead
It’s Friday, I’m in love”
animal farm propaganda by ~Satansgoalie on deviantART
Popped Culture: Popaganda: The Pop Culture Revolution
tales of dragons and knights of old; reports from england, scotland and wales, from the paranormal database
http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/dragons.php
Here be dragons…
Nepali Trekking permit from 1986
Ian Brady shows no remorse says lawyer, as grave of Moors victim remains mystery | Mail Online
Where were you on the night on June 29?
Accountable Predictions Long Bets
The Arena for Accountable Predictions or Long Bets site is:
…an arena for competitive, accountable predictions (Long Bets).
…a forum for focused discussion and debate about prediction.
…an attractive tool for philanthropic giving.
…a way to foster better long-term thinking.
People making long term predictions and prepared to put their money where their mouth is. Some bets are a bit ridiculous though.
Update 2023: Some bets have already finished and from my observations most were wrong. e.g.
- Tesla will make a <$30,000 car by 2015, By 02022,
- Aether Physics (or its equivalent) will take the place of General Relativity and Quantum Theory,
- Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be found guilty at a court of law or will flee from the country by 2020.
It would be good if the site owners made site navigation better and had a section for bets which have finished.
Bluntcard.com
John Mock & Kimberley ONeil
John Mock and Kimberley ONeil have 30 years of experience of trekking in the Hindu Kush and other mountain ranges. If you like mountains then I’d recommend this site as it lists a lot of resources.
Dyson spheres need great big walls
“Dyson spheres need great big walls
To keep the world from spilling out
They make them out of buckyballs
And use gravitons for grout”
Originally found at http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/dysonFAQ.html but the site is no longer active
b3ta.com challenge: the letter art challenge
An Ant Diversity Sampler : Photo Synthesis
Swine Flu (H1N1)
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Pandemic-flu/Pages/QA.aspx
“I tried to phone the Swine Flu hotline, but all I got was crackling…”
Today is Star Wars day….
Tul Bahadur Pun, a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was refused entrance to the UK by British officials in Nepal as it was claimed he “doesn’t have strong enough ties with the UK” for him to be allowed to settle there. On June 1, 2007 this decision was overturned by the British Asylum & Immigration Minister, Liam Byrne, due to the “exceptional” nature of the case.
Yet Learco Chindamo is allowed to stay in Britain for the rest of his life.
He is the Italian-born murderer who knifed headmaster Philip Lawrence to death outside his London school in 1995.
However, we can’t deport him, an immigration tribunal has ruled, because this would breach his human right to a ‘family life’.
Recently, Gordon Brown’s government has ruled that Gurkha soldiers who have loyally served this country for the last 150 years do not have the right to stay.
Luckily, the House of Commons did not agree with him and in a symbolic vote defeated the government and demanded that all Gurkhas be allowed to settle here if they wish.
Gordon Brown shame on you, it’s not often that politics gets me angry but you and your government are morally bankrupt.
How dare you go to visit troops in Afghanistan say what a great job they are doing and then treat them like this.
“You have been sat too long here for any good you have been doing.
Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.
In the name of God, go!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tul_Bahadur_Pun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha
StumbleUpon Breaks Free from eBay – Founders Buy it Back
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/stumbleupon_breaks_free_from_ebay_-_founds_buy_it.php
Stumbleupon, so good they sold it twice…
Sir Clement Freud
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5163084/Sir-Clement-Freud.html
"Sir Clement Freud, who has died aged 84, was perhaps best known for his deadpan performances on Just A Minute, BBC Radio 4’s comedy panel programme.
Here is one of his best known jokes…
"The Inland Revenue decide to audit Cyril, summon him to their office for an appointment with their most thorough auditor, who is not surprised when Cyril arrives with his solicitor. The auditor says: ‘Sir, you cannot deny that you have an extravagant lifestyle, no full-time employment, and pay no taxes on the grounds of your contention that you win money gambling. I have to tell you that Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise finds that explanation difficult to believe.’
"’I am a great gambler and can prove it,’ says Cyril. ‘Would you like a demonstration?’
"The auditor considers this for a moment and agrees. Cyril says: ‘I bet you a thousand pounds I can bite my own eye.’ The auditor thinks for a while, finally says: ‘It’s a bet.’
"Cyril removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor looks sick.
"’I’ll bet you two thousand pounds that I can bite my other eye,’ says Cyril. The auditor can tell Cyril isn’t blind, so he accepts the bet. Cyril removes his false teeth and bites the good eye.
"The stunned auditor now realises he has bet and lost £3,000, with Cyril’s solicitor as a witness; he gets very nervous. ‘Double or nothing?’ Cyril says. ‘I’ll bet you six thousand pounds that I can stand on the righthand side of your desk and piss into the bin on the far side without getting one drop anywhere between.’
"The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now but examines the proposal carefully. Cyril is not a tall man, the desk is eight foot wide; he decides there is simply no way Cyril could do that, so he agrees again.
"Cyril stands at the side of the desk, unzips his trousers, strains for all he is worth but cannot make the stream reach the bin on the far side, and finishes up having urinated pretty well all over the auditor’s desk. The auditor leaps with joy, realising that he has just turned a major loss into a sizeable win, then notices that Cyril’s solicitor is moaning, with his head in his hands. ‘Are you okay?’ asks the auditor.
"’Not really,’ says the solicitor. ‘This morning, when Cyril told me he had been summoned to this audit, he bet me £20,000 that he could come in here, piss all over your desk and you would be happy about it . . . and I took the bet.’"
Hand of God: Scientists reveal amazing X-ray image of a supernova in deep space | Mail Online
The hired hand,
On heart,
Hand of God,
Floodland and driven apart,
Run cold,
Turn,
Cold,
Burn,
Like a healing hand…
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From this site you can play Mornington crescent, naturally, but be aware that the Pauli-Braithwaite Northern-line exclusion principle may be in play…
Uncle Nolli’s patented Astro-Feng-Shui-Tarot presents:
Sagittarius: 23 November-21 December:
Confusion tomorrow when the tray in your CD player suddenly begins to leak
apple juice. Luckily it’s still under guarantee. And the apple juice will
keep for three days if refrigerated.
Lucky shampoo: Wash & Go 2-in-1.
Postage stamps from the Republic of China (1911 – 1949)
Top row: President Yuan Shikai who declared himself emperor in 1915 and then died mysteriously.
Bottom row Sun Yat-sen the ‘Father of Modern China’ who was a principled nationalist who said that his “three Principles of the People” was inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysberg Address.
Also Chiang Kai-shek who infamously lost China and fled into exile in Taiwan in 1949.
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Moronail.net – Ars gratia hilaris.
MicroAngelas Electron Microscope Image Gallery
http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela/index.html
Common insects under an electronmicroscope
1910 imagines Skype…
Villemard, 1910
Correspondance Cin
Dark Roasted Blend: Ships Battling Heavy Seas
Public Proxy Servers
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/
A useful tool against the creeping database state?
Sisters of Mercy – Dominion
The Sisters of Mercy – Dominion, lifting lyrics from Percy Shelley
“On the lone and level
Sand stretch far away”
Remixes of the paranoid London police “anti-terror”/suspect your neighbours posters – Boing Boing
Metropolitan Police Service – New campaign to urge Londoners to report suspicious activity
http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/counter_terrorism/index.htm
We love you Big Brother…
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/News/eyes.htm
Retro Thing: The Ultimate Science Kit
http://www.retrothing.com/2009/03/the-ultimate-science-kit.html
Warning: Do not sell this kit to any representative of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran….
One to One With Nature: Incredible Wildlife Photography. Part 1
Big Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJJQ0zNNOM
See also:
http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog
C.P. Cavafy – The Official Website of The Cavafy Archive
The Ides of March
Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory.
And if you cannot curb your ambitions,
at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously.
And the higher you go,
the more searching and careful you need to be.
And when you reach your summit, Caesar at last ,
when you assume the role of someone that famous ,
then be especially careful as you go out into the street,
a conspicuous man of power with your retinue;
and should a certain Artemidoros
come up to you out of the crowd, bringing a letter,
and say hurriedly: ‘Read this at once.
There are things in it important for you to see,’
be sure to stop; be sure to postpone
all talk or business; be sure to brush off
all those who salute and bow to you
(they can be seen later); let even
the Senate itself wait , and find out immediately
what grave message Artemidoros has for you.
C P Cavafy