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Flickr meme
I've been tagged by elhamisabel
If you've got a Flickr account go to the 6th page and post the 6th image on that page here and tag 6 people.
So I'm tagging semioticghosts , novemberbug , swanofkennet , miketroll , newkaligula, and caterinaanna , if they want to play, too and haven't already been caught.
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Nudged by newkaligula here's another set. All shot from a rooftop car park two weeks ago.
In other words I can take the pics it's doing the uploading I'm slow at!
4. King's
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Queen Elizabeth the Second retires
Got you going didn't I ? The ship not Her Maj.
The QE2 leaves Southampton this evening on her final voyage to become a floating hotel in Dubai. There was some embarrassment today when she ran aground in the Solent on the way into Southampton Harbour.
Old footage is being shown on the news of the Queen naming the ship and I flashed back to sitting in ( Read more... ) -
"Change has come to America".. but not for everyone
Underneath all the excitement of an African-American being elected as US President America continues to be a conservative country. After all 48m people DIDN'T vote for Obama. The expectation is that, at best, President Obama will be a centrist. Funny that he was being castigated as a socialist!
The influence of church over state in the US astounds ( Read more... ) -
"The West Wing" was right all along
Devotees of the final series of the West Wing knew the result of the US Election in May 2006, when the last episode was broadcast on American TV and the Hispanic character based on Barack Obama won the election against an elderly, maverick, decent Republican.
The story's appeared in many newspapers but here's the Guardian's version west wing, us election, obamaCheer up time
OK, so the cost of the crash world-wide is £2.8 trillion. These numbers only make sense to physicists and economists, so the Guardian has helpfully converted it to "buying 13,000 lattes for each person in the UK", amongst other examples.
Updated to say that the BBC's voice of doom ( Robert Peston) was putting this at £5trillion at lunchtime and ( Read more... )The Famous ( and not so famous ) Art Quiz
As seen on Madame U's LJ.
Your result for The Famous (and Not So Famous) Art Quiz...
Art History Major
( Read more... )I'm getting old!
In the spirit of a "balanced" view I took both quizzes ( Read more... )
