From the Scotsman: EU warns of bird flu danger in chicken and eggs. Ah ha ha ha. I laugh in the face of danger and will have a soft-boiled egg for my supper tonight. Take that, Mr/Ms Scaremonger Media. (The key question is: how will this affect spiceone’s and cooksister’s EoMEoTE?) Useless piece of science […]
From BBC news: [Edinburgh] City centre revamp plan unveiled. What Princes St needs is not a facelift but a face transplant. There’s nothing to distinguish it as a unique high street; it’s chockablock with the standard, national high street chains. Apart from Jenners, there’s nothing to set it apart from any other British city’s shopping […]
From theguardian: What can women actually do? Gordon Ramsay has declared that women can’t cook: “Seriously,” he cried in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph, “there are huge numbers of young women out there who know how to mix cocktails but can’t cook to save their lives, whereas men are finding their way into the kitchen in ever-growing […]
From BBC news: UK calls for wild bird import ban. Aberdeen University microbiologist and bird flu expert Professor Hugh Pennington said Britons should not be alarmed by the discovery. He said the virus had been “doing the rounds of the Far East for about 10 years” but still had not mutated into the “form that […]
From the sharpener, a comment piece about the media in politics. Which leads me to wonder if David Cameron is the Tony Blair of the Conservative party.
And another one from nature news (you can tell I’m work-avoiding, can’t you?): Laser printer dot code revealed. Am I the only one not surprised by this? (Tinfoil hat always on…) This is merely the modern version of the crime writer’s old standby: the “fingerprint” of a typewriter.
Cheney resignation rumors fly. Ooer… Interesting. [Tinfoil hat on] What are the chances that suggestions of Condoleeza Rice suceeding Cheney should he resign should be floated a few episodes in to the new Commander-in-Chief TV series? Has an idea been planted into public consciousness? [Tinfoil hat off] Speaking of which, if The West Wing is […]
From BBC news: Longer parking to help city shops. Ha! I see falling revenues have pushed the Council to review their draconian parking limits in Edinburgh’s city centre. We don’t normally drive to the shops, seeing as we live but a 20 minute walk away from the West End. But even when we do want […]
From BBC news: Equal rights take a back seat. I find myself in agreement with the premise of the initial objection… The woman was unreasonable (but is that because she’s a woman or that she’s just an unreasonable person?). (And let’s not forget this was on a First-to-breakdown-Scotrail overcrowded commuter train, where tensions tend to […]
From BBC news: New Orleans sacks 3,000 workers. Are you trying to tell me that 3000 people who have lost their homes, belongings and maybe even friends or relatives have now also lost their source of income? What utter rot.
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