http://www.lrb.co.uk/classified/index.php Another good reason (my first being close proximity to Paris) to move to Britain. Here, I thought the book from my previous entry was a collection of rarities, but they’re almost always this fun. Fwah. In laboratory tests, this ad made seven mice blind. The remaining three, however, developed extra-sensory powers and the ability […]
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Women sacked for not baring breasts to gorilla – Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1899977,00.html Nutmeg sent me this with a note asking if I was interested in a job in Koko’s “wish fulfillment” department. I say give it another couple of months – with the saddening decline of scientific backing in the US, it’s only a matter of time before the research positions are filled by underemployed (and […]
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http://www.heraldextra.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=69830 This is sad on SO many levels. To wit, kids getting married at 17, the boy’s mother who is 100% behind the idea, the bride-to-be’s friends’ “advice”, and the fact that this lame proposal is considered big news in Provo… They considered several other ideas, including an advertisement before a movie, a skywriter, gift-wrapping […]
Environmentalist sets fire to himself in Brazil protest | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1641804,00.html I’m obviously more conscientious an environmentalist than humanist; the first thing to come to mind upon reading this was, “isn’t there a less polluting way to kill yourself?” (Straight to Hell, I know, I know): A campaigner who has dedicated his life to fighting the destruction of the Brazilian environment is in a critical […]
Obituaries – The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/obituaries/index.html The NY Times Obituaries section offers a neat feature; each month they dredge up some of the archived obits for famous types who died that month. It’s quite an experience to note the different styles suiting the different eras in which they were written, and for a history nut like myself, very useful to […]
Canadians Beat U.S. Army to New Orleans Suburb
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0908-02.htm It’s a bit late, but here is my second favourite story to emerge from Katrina (after the American media finally growing a pair) – a group of Canucks who managed to beat all the emergency organisations into New Orleans. Quiet infiltration is what we’re best at; just ask those who had to repaint the […]
Popular Mechanics
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html Neat pic (NB: Not from today’s storm)