...because he looks past the propaganda. Oh, and makes me nice chai :-)

I've nicked this from some of his responses in an email thread elsewhere:

I too would love to see more carbon capture, starting with an end to the mania for post-consumer recycling of paper and cardboard. Most recycled cardboard and paper comes from pre-consumer off-cuts and ( Read more... )

...aka Just Saying...

There have now been hundreds of male Nobel laureates, at least 200 of them in the sciences AFAIK.

There have only been 35 female Nobel laureates in toto. Of these, only twelve have been in the sciences, including Marie Curie (twice) and her daughter.

Sheesh, people. Pull yer fingers out, would'ja?

Young lurve among the slime classes: Yesterday, when I got off my train by the office, there was a pair of young ferals on the platform. Both of them were dressed in current ~coughs~ I'm so-tough transgressive bogan fashun, especially the male - one of those risible hoodies so favoured by Asian and African Tuff Yoofs here (the ones made of some ( Read more... )

...when we've got single ones :P

An item about the Nottingham Goose Fair:

http://tinyurl.com/2wuo5y

Nanny Ogg would be proud...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/08/usa

I'm not even going to explain. I'm having enough trouble breathing as it is, from gasping and laughter and...aah, just read it :D

Be aware: The Forbidden Kingdom is unapologetic big-budget chopsocky. It's based on Chinese legends, which of course have a target emotional-complexity age of about six and are chocka with inexplicable, pointless or discontinuous plot devices; but that said, it's marvellous. The kung fu is nonpareil, Chan's speciality - comedic martial arts - gets ( Read more... )

We got home yesterday (late) evening. I'd been away all weekend, so although watching the 4.12 Confidential and then 4.13 was the planned spectacular finish to the festivities, my Illness won out and I corpsed from 22-ish to 0600. And so I woke Himself at 0800 and said, 'Let's not spend the day in suspense, avoiding everyone and probably still ( Read more... )

We saw Get Smart last night. A fun movie, and surprisingly intelligent - they've done more than a touch of Galactica-style reimagining, and the film is thus much worthier than the source material ever was. I'd held my tongue for many decades about Get Smart the series, because it's always been so iconic and because there were so many snarfleworthy ( Read more... )

I know I promised to elaborate on the curious things in my previous post, and I will, but for the moment I'm still zine-ing (in final stages, looking very good indeed, and although the actual number of work hours per issue has gone up, the stress level has plummetted due to an actual (semi?)-permanent news editor coming on board, so I'm very nearly ( Read more... )

One of our submarines is missing tonight ( Read more... )