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Dihydrogen Monoxide
I have just been reading this website about Dihydrogen Monoxide. Talk about scary. Apparently it is all over the place. It’s in our food and it is impossible to wash it off. It is used in poisons and in nuclear power plants and it kills thousands of people particularly if they go swimming because by now it is in the reservoirs and even in the sea ( Read more... ) -
Make Poverty History?
It hasn't happened and I cannot claim to be very surprised ( Read more... ) -
Sea Monkey
Open Source software. Free to download. Free to upgrade. And Bill Gates doesn't get a penny. He has enough of your money. -
A level day
Of course the Telegraph and the Mail are saying the exams are getting easier. Certainly their job is getting easier, they just dust off last year's article. It would be nice to see what results the journalists got at A level and what the Telegraph and the Mail, or perhaps the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, was saying about "the exams all being too easy ( Read more... ) -
Dougie C - Edinburgh Blog
Dougie C - Edinburgh Blog
The history of Magic. Impressive prestidigitation. His act started out very tame and standard but then it became apparent that the simple tricks were just a diversion as he was building up to some very clever stuff. He even did the “catch a bullet in your mouth” stunt, except he did it with a paintball.
He also ( Read more... ) -
Shop Signs - Edinburgh Blog
Do you have the balls to wear this? (on a kilt shop)
Battered mars bars £1
And the Church of Scotland had its deliberately austere building opposite the ornate Episcopalian church enlivened by a tennis picture with the caption “love all”. What was missing was the asterisk “* with the exception of homosexuals, single mothers, communists ( Read more... ) -
Under Milk Wood - Edinburgh Blog
Under Milk Wood - Edinburgh Blog
The Plant Life production was the best I have seen. I have only ever heard it on the radio before. However I enjoyed it despite the inability of the cast to pronounce “sago”. I think they were wise not to attempt Welsh accents and the presentation was impressive - as was the poetry of course.
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