Apaprently, I walk too fast and it’s bad for me. Since Singapore tops the table, that’s not entirely surprising.
Author Archives: akatsukira
Cream and bastards rise
Going through my RSS feeds in Thunderbird, I realised I read NOTHING in 2006. Yes, the whole of 2006. Not only did I read no blogs, I also read no books*. That may have been the first time in my life I didn’t read voraciously, constantly, indiscriminately. What should I do about the RSS feeds? […]
Why on earth would anyone object to Where’s Waldo (Wally)?, number 88 on the American Library Association’s list of 100 most-challenged books (via). It’s not exactly controversial, is it? It’s a picture book, for crying out loud. And one with rather tame images at that. (Unless there’s a Playboy version I’ve not seen.) Update: Ah, […]
An interesting analysis of the original cause of the Darfur war/conflict/genocide. An excerpt: More recent computer modelling has suggested that rain patterns over Africa are influenced rather by ocean temperatures, and those in turn reflect global warming, and the rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In other words, droughts in Africa may be caused […]
The Californian State vs The EPA
So, the Governator may sue the EPA over their slowness in allowing California to pass a vehicle emissions law. While I applaud this state’s attempts at tackling climate change, I still find it a little ironic that Schwarzenegger is still driving his damn Humvees. Extracted from the article: Teased by conference host Michael Milken about […]
Frog this
Frrrog! This* is SO wrong (via). *You may not want to click on this if you’re a die-hard vegetarian/vegan. Or like frogs.
Do you want to be the Great Grand Overlord of the British Isles?
Feeling bad. Not giving dog enough attention, not taking good care of P, not calling home enough, not IMing the bro for months, not sorting out the BnB website problem, not writing enough manuscripts for the lab, not producing enough data for the great and glorious leader, not doing my part for the environment by […]
So, the kryptonite story is old hat now. But the article made me wonder why the makers of Superman Returns used “sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide” as the chemical formula for kryptonite when we already have an element named krypton (Kr), which they could easily have faked a compound name with. They missed a trick […]
Pizza Pie
I was going to discuss the merits of different pizza styles and toppings, but I got side-tracked by the discovery that in Iran, pizzas are now known as elastic loaves (via). So, instead of yet another dull “I made this, then ate it” post, we’ll keep it to just the photo of my very-elastic loaf […]
I suffered in Nintendo Hell as a child, and never felt much satisfaction from playing that stupid Super Mario Brothers platform level game. So this amused me no end (via). Caution: plenty of swearing.
akatsuki ra-ra-ra 