shiseido fights flu
From Japan Times Online: Shiseido unit to sell flu-fighting mask. (via cerebral soup) At work. More later.
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apt googlebomb
Yet another googlebomb is doing the rounds. And for once, the target isn’t a member of the current British cabinet or the Bush administration. No, this week’s ignorant bigots are… Oh, just try it yourself. (via Mons Graupius)
we don’t want no birds
From BBC news: New measures to tackle bird flu. Do such measures make you feel safer, that the government is doing all it can to minimise the potential of an outbreak? Or is it scaremongering gone crazy? After the SARS outbreak, no governing body wants to be seen as lacking. After the BSE beef-to-human transmission […]
torture in mind
There’s been some discussion on the use of torture in the blogosphere. (No, not using torture on bloggers although that’s not a bad idea.) And on tonight’s episode of Commander in Chief, we hear from the President in response to a terrorist threat: “I don’t want to hear that he was tortured.” And from her […]
eggcellent scare story
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 […]
Another mall for Princes St
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 […]
Oof!
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 […]
calm down, calm down
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 […]
cameron=blair=disaster
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.
a real flap
Maybe it’s because I’m way over here on the other side of the Atlantic (with a whole continent inbetween to boot!), but the current worry about bird flu in Europe isn’t keeping me up at night. Standard disclaimer: I don’t know any better than your regular layman/woman about H5N1, other avian viruses, let alone virus […]
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