2008 Presidential Candidate
Sick of the Republicans? Fed up with waiting for the Democrats? Can’t stand to waste yet another vote on Nader? Well check this out: A Presidential candidate for 2008 (via nosemonkey).
Author Archives: akatsukira
Hollywood gets it wrong again
From Nature: Quicksand can’t suck you under.
Changing drug resistance of the AIDS virus
From BBC news: Aids virus ‘could be weakening’ I’m not familiar with the HIV field of research, nor have I read this particular paper, but I strongly suspect that this refers to a small cohort, probably in Belgium (facts need to be checked when I have access to the paper). The way the AIDS virus […]
Help the aged… Right out of the conference.
From BBC news: Labour issues apology to heckler In the post-match interview: “I’m going to personally apologise to him,” Mr McCartney said. “I’m going to personally meet him if he takes the opportunity.” (Emphasis mine.) Umm… I don’t know what Ian McCartney is normally like, but I think that was a poor choice of words. […]
danger down under
From the BBC’s news magazine: Danger Down Under This brings to mind TP’s continent of XXXX (or FourEcks*), where there are no longer snakes; the slithering reptiles having been eaten by the spiders. And don’t even bother trying to list all the other dangerous species. Not even the sheep are completely harmless… Och, yet another […]
An experiment in brown
Brown, brown, brown Originally uploaded by framboise. Slowly getting back to some semblance of a normal life. Felt alert enough tonight to cook without burning the place down, though how one can achieve that with an electric stove, one can only wonder. Something other foreign postdocs have noticed (i.e. moaned about during lunch) is the […]
I know that loo…
From the BBC’s news mag: A public inconvenience. My first thought when I saw the photo: I know that loo! How sad is that? It’s the women’s public toilet in Dunbar. Although that is an exemplary toilet, I’m afraid to report that the facilities in nearby Yellowcraigs beach (between North Berwick and Gullane) leave a […]
Blairgowrie man is world champion
Here’s a first for Blair(gowrie): one of their local sons is the current world champion. Of stone skimming. Yes, you read it right. To be added to the list of top-class sporting events: World Stone Skimming Championships! Held on Easdale Island, on the west coast of Scotland, they take stone skimming seriously enough to have […]
Recycle those coffee cups
Feeling guilty about throwing away all those disposable coffee cups? Santos of tsogb has a super way to recycle paper coffee cups from your coffee chain of choice. Or if you don’t bake, how about using them to sprout seeds or pot-on seedlings? (Oops, wrong time of year in the Northern hemisphere for that sort […]
It’s never dreich in LA
The BBC promotes an interesting book in today’s Magazine: The Meaning of Tingo (author’s website here). His latest blog entry would bring a wee smile to the face of most Scots: … Scottish weather words I found, most of them, unsurprisingly, to do with rain. Dreich, ‘a miserably wet day’; plowtery, meaning ‘showery’; and drookit, […]
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