http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/04/nposters04.xml
“The largest privately owned archive of Chinese propaganda posters, providing an illustrated history of the country from the 1930s to post Tiananmen Square, is to be sold at auction later this month.
The collection, of 2,600 posters, was amassed by several generations of a single Chinese family. Some are expected to fetch up to
Hmmmm…. cheeseburger….
[Warning: This site contains cheeseburger porn.]
http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2.cfm?page=1&seriesid=1
https://www.bernardcornwell.net
Here’s forty shillings on the drum
For those who’ll volunteer to come
To ‘list and fight the foe today.
Over the hills and far away.
O’er the hills and o’er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
When duty calls me I must go
To stand and face another foe.
But part of me will always stray
Over the hills and far away.
If I should fall to rise no more,
As many comrades did before,
Then ask the fifes and drums to play.
Over the hills and far away.
Then fall in lads behind the drum,
With colours blazing like the sun.
Along the road to come-what may.
Over the hills and far away.
O’er the hills and o’er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.
http://www.better-together.co.uk/
“Where am I?”
“In the Village.”
“What do you want?”
“Information.”
“Whose side are you on?”
“That would be telling…. We want information. Information! INFORMATION.”
“You won’t get it.”
“By hook or by crook, we will.”
“Who are you?”
“The new Number 2.”
“Who is Number 1?”
“You are Number 6.”
“I am not a number — I am a free man!”
http://www.filmbuffonline.com/ReadingRoom/TimeBanditsIIReview.htm
Time Bandits II – Unfortunately, not coming to a cinema near you.
http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Childrens_Books/Deeds_of_Pluck/Deeds_of_Pluck_01.htm
Link no longer valid
Ripping Yarns
http://www.stumbleupon.com/city/royston_vasey/
Sorry, Stumbleupon no longer exists – it was a great online community similar to (but before) Tumblr until the people who ran it broke it.
SU Population = 5
Calling all stumblers:
Move to Royston Vasey, you know it makes sense.
Imagine if you move to Royston Vasey you will:
1) Be able to tell foreigners that they won’t have heard of where you live ‘unless you are local’
2) Politely decline to post your location on people’s guest maps , because ‘Where I live isn’t listed.’
3) NOT appear on google earth and therefore be safe from spy satellites,
4) Never leave,
5) Go swimming in our incredibly shallow gene pool.
6) er…
7)…that’s it
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/the_battle_of_bosworth.htm
August 22nd 1485
” Inter their bodies as becomes their births:
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
That in submission will return to us:
And then, as we have ta’en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red:
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frown’d upon their enmity!
What traitor hears me, and says not amen?
England hath long been mad, and scarr’d herself;
The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood,
The father rashly slaughter’d his own son,
The son, compell’d, been butcher to the sire:
All this divided York and Lancaster, “
http://www.florahealth.com/Flora/Home/canada/healthinformation/encyclopedias/sheepsorrel.asp
Norfolk
by Sir John Betjemen
How did the Devil come? When first attack?
These Norfolk lanes recall lost innocence,
The years fall off and find me walking back
Dragging a stick along the wooden fence
Down this same path, where, forty years ago,
My father strolled behind me, calm and slow.
I used to fill my hands with sorrel seeds
And shower him with them from the tops of stiles,
I used to butt my head into his tweeds
To make him hurry down those languorous miles
Of ash and alder-shaded lanes, till here
Our moorings and the masthead would appear.
There after supper lit by lantern light
Warm in the cabin I could lie secure
And hear against the polished sides at night
The lap lap lapping of the weedy Bure,
A whispering and watery Norfolk sound
Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.
How did the Devil come? When first attack?
The church is just the same, though now I know
Fowler of Louth restored it. Time, bring back
The rapturous ignorance of long ago,
The peace, before the dreadful daylight starts,
Of unkept promises and broken hearts.
http://www.cyberspike.com/clarke/nipple.html
see also https://johncooperclarke.com
http://www.geocities.com/traditions_uk/august12.html Site no longer active so this Wikipedia page is a good alternative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Twelfth
From the page:
“The Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus) is a medium-sized game bird found only in the British Isles, being a subspecies of the Willow Grouse of Europe, Asia and North America.
It breeds on the heather moors of northern Britain and its numbers are carefully maintained, despite the annual slaughter, by managed breeding and the controlled burning of the heather to provide the variety of stages of growth in the heather which suits the birds best – young shoots for food, mature growth for shelter, and clearings for the chicks and young birds to sun themselves in.
The grouse are allowed to breed unmolested and the season’s chicks will be fully mature by the beginning of August, when the close season comes to an end on the 12th of the month.”
Uncle Nolli’s Astro-Tarot-Feng Shui Horoscopes
This week:
Scorpio: 24 October-22 November:
My apologies to all Scorpio’s for last weeks’ misprint, the result of a transcription error. The entry should have read “fantastic luck ahead” and not as it appeared.
Thank you to all those who wrote in. Both the offended and the disappointed.
The Walrus and the Carpenter were walking hand in hand,
“If only” said the Carpenter “the law would understand.”
This site implies that the ‘Rape of Nanjing’ did not take place.
This is the equivalent of holocaust denial. The evidence is legion.
Oh yes, and also Chinese are cannibals too.
Bigoted and rascist site that seems to be a cover for some sort of “Christian” group. Not the sort of Christianity that we have in the Anglican Church.
http://www.bloggingawaydebt.com/
Been there, done that, paid it off.
Advice from Mr Micawber,
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.“
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm – link no longer valid
One of many political cartoons penned by Dr Seus.
I posted this back in the days before Dr Seuss got ‘cancelled’. So here’s some context to show how political and progressive he was in his day:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/dr-seuss-protest-icon/515031/
From the page: “Curry could help improve mental agility and stave off Alzheimer’s disease, it has been claimed.
Scientists found those who ate the dish as little as once every six months did better in tests than those who had it never or rarely.”
Put the toilet roll in the fridge, I’m off for a curry…
At the moment I’d rather look at this than watch the news:
Until the test match starts that is…
Interesting but I remember from my days at University, the Chemical society had a picture of the above compound emblazoned on their t-shirts together with the logo:
‘Leeds Chemists wipe their own.’
In case you’re wondering, the molecule in question is an arsole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsole
More amusingly named chemicals can be found at:
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm
http://www.myspace.com/peteshelleysolo
Remember Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks fame? Well here you can hear his classic solo releases ‘Homosapien’ and ‘Telephone Operator’.
Home page of Paul Marino a producer of machinima including the excellent ‘I’m Still Seeing Breen’ which synchronises clips from Half Life 2 to ‘So Cold’ by Breaking Benjamin
It can be downloaded from this site or viewed online via You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkOvoD-y0vQ
“Machinima is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies.”
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/Latimer,Ridley,Cranmer.htm
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Burning Bishops, Oxfordshire Style
An intriguing concept, but I don’t think that the immolation of heretical clerics provides the answer to our future energy needs.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00003872-159C-1498-959C83414B7F0000
Cryogenic, superconducting conduits could be connected into a “SuperGrid” that would simultaneously deliver electrical power and hydrogen fuel
From the page:
“It is not at all clear, moreover, how well today’s infrastructure could support the rapid adoption of hybrid vehicles that draw on electricity or hydrogen for part of their power. And because the power system must continuously match electricity consumption with generation, it cannot easily accept a large increase in the unpredictable and intermittent power produced from renewable wind, ocean and solar resources.
We are part of a growing group of engineers and physicists who have begun developing designs for a new energy delivery system we call the Continental SuperGrid. We envision the SuperGrid evolving gradually alongside the current grid, strengthening its capacity and reliability. Over the course of decades, the SuperGrid would put in place the means to generate and deliver not only plentiful, reliable, inexpensive and “clean” electricity but also hydrogen for energy storage and personal transportation.”
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy
It’s about time we got the Hydrogen Economy going in earnest, once we do we can let the Middle East sort out it’s own problems.
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/index.html
From the page:
“Description
A fish that appears like a bishop. This idea may be based on the belief that everything on land has a corresponding creature in the sea, or may have been a fitting description for an unfamiliar creature that was caught. Also called a Bishop Fish.
Might be… a giant squid. Squids have heads shaped like a bishop, and it is not uncommon for them to be the size of a man. see: http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/squid.htm
Described By: One such creature was seen of the coast of Poland in 1531.
In a reported Medieval legend, a Sea Bishop was captured alive in a fishing net in the 13th century. When it was brought to the king, the Sea Bishop begged to be set free. It was brought back to the sea, and before diving into the water it made the sign of the cross.”
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/2006/uplift.html
Another informative piece that should be read together with this:
http://www.snopes.com/science/volcano.asp
…and this is the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath & Wells
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Blackadder_episodes
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/q0279.shtml
Informative answers to the questions:
“Where do the Katyusha missiles used to attack Israel come from?
What exactly is a Qassam rocket?”
Katyusha Rockets, Soviet Style
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/new-powers-paper.pdf
The Home Office, twinned with Mordor.
Struan Robertson, editor of http://www.out-law.com/ the IT and e-commerce legal site for Pinsent Masons, said: “The Government has a challenge on its hands to write a law that balances its proposal to punish people and organisations for crimes that it cannot prove with the safeguards in the European Convention of Human Rights, notably the right to a fair trial.”
Back by popular demand…
Uncle Nolli’s Astro-Tarot-Feng Shui Horoscopes
This week:
Gemini: 22 May-21 June:
Paving stones and tinned fish look set to play a significant part in your life next Saturday afternoon. That would be the effect of Pluto, the planet of patio redesign, entering Capricorn, the sign of cat food.
Lucky confectionery: Spangles (Olde English flavour)
The Stumbleupon groups that I moderate, namely:
http://china.group.stumbleupon.com/
and
http://second-life.group.stumbleupon.com/
have been getting off-topic postings or …
from persons who are probably…
In the immortal words of the Cybermen…
