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16 March 2011  |  | category: advice, can't make it up!, film, photography, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the state we're in, world of work, writing  | comments are closed  VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo. Thanks Gareth 8 March 2011 | | category: can't make it up!, cycling, film, gravity life, transport, travel | comments are closed From Jason Freeny comes this "Rubik's Cube embedded inside brain sculpture. Fully functional puzzle." [via Ufunk] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» bookofjoe Rubik's Brain: .) Our political system protects and enriches a fantastically wealthy elite, much of whose money is, as a result of their interesting tax and transfer arrangements, in effect stolen from poorer countries, and poorer citizens of their own countries. Ours is a semi-criminal money-laundering economy, legitimised by the pomp of the lord mayor’s show and multiple layers of defence in government. Politically irrelevant, economically invisible, the rest of us inhabit the margins of the system. Governments ensure that we are thrown enough scraps to keep us quiet, while the ultra-rich get on with the serious business of looting the global [ continue reading To us, it’s an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it’s the heist of the century ] 8 February 2011 | | category: can't make it up!, nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed All of which brings me back to Egypt as the canary in a very large coal mine. It’s hard to overstate just how unexpected a transformation is occurring in Egypt. Death, taxes, and Hosni Mubarak — they were the three great certainties in modern Egyptian life. But just underneath the surface, the tectonic pressure of dumb growth was steadily mounting. Bogus prosperity’s like magma, filling the volcanic chamber of a society: you can bottle it up for only so long before it erupts, and spectacularly. Today, the world’s gaze is fixed on the pyroclastic flow: never-ending demonstrations, protests, people [ continue reading Egypt’s Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near You ] 3 February 2011 | | category: can't make it up!, empires flux, prognosticators, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, social media tools, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, world of work | comments are closed РАЭ-54 с борта НЭС “Академик Фёдоров” from North Pole on Vimeo. 22 January 2011 | | category: blue wobbly stuff, can't make it up!, one world, photography | comments are closed As writers say, the difference between fiction and fact is that fiction has to be believable. So all those Bourne films are so believable and everything on ‘The News’ is so ridiculous. Osama Bin Laden: still at-large, Ratko Mladic: still at large, Sylvio Berlusconi: in charge of a bankrupt country – and its media, Tony Blair & George Bush doing lecture tours, the €uro bankrupt while the workers of Germany subsidise a continent, and so on. The world changed years ago. Just ask the Book, Music and Film Industries, newspaper publishers, television companies, High-Street shopkeepers and expense-fiddling MPs, who can [ continue reading #WikiLeaks #cablegate – Mirrors of the website & #Visa, #Mastercard transferring funds to racists ] 7 December 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed This is special underwear. It’s designed for travel, specifically to protect your health and your dignity at TSA checkpoints, according to the clothing company Rocky Flats Gear. “For the first time, radiological shields are attractive, durable, affordable, fun, and comfortable to wear.” A special, lead-free powdered metal is decoratively affixed to mens’ boxers or briefs. When TSA screeners try to check your most personal space, the X-ray will reveal a less embarrassing natural shape, a fig leaf. You can pick these up in a “USA Patriot 3 Pack,” one red, one white, one blue for $50. A [ continue reading Special Panties Stymie Scanners at Airports ] Red Bull handle the production of film documenting journey across Scotland and the Isle of Skye The long awaited sequel to Danny MacAskill’s debut Inspried Bicycle’s video is now online and this time around has big budget Red Bull cinematography behind the production. MacAskill’s debut web edit has now been viewed over 21 million times on [ continue reading Danny MacAskill ‘Way Back Home’ – cycling but not as we know it ] A colleague just pointed me to this site, Typeanalyzer, which claims it can identify the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) of a blog’s author by examining his or her blog. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» A Blog-Based Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator | Kellblog: .) Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous talk from TEDxDU. THE BLACK HILLS ARE NOT FOR SALE. “The best things in life aren’t things” [ continue reading The Lakota Sioux; still prisoners of war. Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee and ‘what happens next?’ ] 11 November 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, empires flux, nothing new under the sun, one world, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the state we're in, tribal | comments are closed Today’s parasite is the larval stage of the blister beetle Meloe franciscanus. The beetle larvae are brood parasites that feed on eggs and the young of the solitary bee Habropoda pallida. The problem is, how do they get into the nest of a female bee on the first place? Well they do it by imitating the real thing. They gather into a swarm and climb to the tip of a grass stem. Once there, they clump together to form a small brown blob. While it might not look like much to you, but beetles give off a smell and [ continue reading Parasite of the day. November 9 – Meloe franciscanus ] Ok so we are paving over paradise – official! Apart from the fact that pedestrians don’t seem to know the correct side of the road on which to walk; why can’t the road be shared? There are already paths from PyG to PyP. Is that why there are all those tracks on the slope around Eckenstein’s Boulder at the moment? PyG at night now looks more like Blackpool than a wilderness area. Parking in existing towns ONLY and better buses please. NO TO MORE PARKING IN THE NATIONAL (CAR)PARK. MORE (punctual) BUSES NOW It was done during the foot and [ continue reading New Path – Pen Y Gwryd to Pen Y Pass – Snowdonia National CarPark ] 7 November 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, hills, the state we're in, Wales | comments are closed Real world is just beyond the gift shop. Grief and vinegar with your chips? | We are OCA. The battle lines have been drawn in Kent over, well, a line, the Herne Bay Times reports. The offending yellow stripe runs for miles along the promenade in Herne Bay, apparently in order to stop cyclists who use this section Oyster Bay Trail cycle route from riding off the edge of the prom and onto the beach. In what’s looks like a classic “health and safety gone mad” versus “never underestimate the public’s stupidity” style disagreement, objectors are equating the painted line to an act of vandalism while council bosses insist it is a legitimate safety measure. Herne Bay [ continue reading “Brainless” warning line “an insult to cyclists” (well anyone actually) ] 15 October 2010 | | category: advice, can't make it up!, cycling, the state we're in | comments are closed “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Construction from Ken Murphy on Vimeo. 14 October 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, film, photography, rail, transport, travel, world of work | comments are closed “Mrs Thatcher is 85 today but ironically she’s been knocked off the news by a Government that looks after their miners! « LOL – RT @iancawsey” . This seems to be one of the commonest tweeted perspectives this morning. Great news that they will get the lads out of their mine but what a media scrum! Don’t the billionaire politicians line-up to get in the pictures with people they were barely aware of before? Let’s see how the miners cope with fame of this magnitude, it will not be easy to adjust. It’s hard for me to believe that Chile [ continue reading at least she won’t know anything about it ] 13 October 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, world of work | comments are closed I’ve posted previously about Dr. Seuss’s “School of Unorthodox Taxidermy,” a sculpture series that Theodore Seuss Geisel created in the 1930s. Reproductions are available, but an incredibly-rare original set is now on eBay. They are currently on exhibit at the Chateau de Belcastel monument in France, but they can be yours for just $1,000,000. From eBay: This collection would have been originally purchased in the late 1930’s. They were kept in a child’s room, and eventually retired to the storage barn next to a chicken coop in upstate New York. The set was acquired for a substantial sum in [ continue reading Original Dr. Seuss taxidermy on eBay – Boing Boing ] One of the best bits of telly and most uplifting and inspiring accounts I have ever seen. WATCH IT ON iPLAYER “It was the best part of my life,” said one silver-haired lady in ringing tones, while another described it as “poetry” and a third as “the aeroplane and you were one”. What these doughty octogenarians were describing in this gem of a film was flying Spitfires during the Second World War. The three women – and a few more more tracked down by director Harvey Lilley – are among the last-remaining women who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary [ continue reading Spitfire Women, BBC Four – if You watch anything on telly this week – let it be this ] 21 September 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, one world, women, world of work | comments are closed I am opposed to the building of the “mosque” two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on Ground Zero. Why? Because I believe in an America that protects those who are the victims of hate and prejudice. I believe in an America that says you have the right to worship whatever God you have, wherever you want to worship. And I believe in an America that says to the world that we are a loving and generous people and if a bunch of murderers steal your religion from you and use it as their excuse to [ continue reading If the ‘Mosque’ Isn’t Built, This Is No Longer America | MichaelMoore.com ] 14 September 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, nothing new under the sun, one world, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, thinkers, tribal | comments are closed My Thought: yes. Re-bury please. SHOULD we consider the privacy or reputation of the individual when analysing an Egyptian mummy? The assumption that ancient corpses are fair game for science is beginning to be challenged. Though strict ethical guidelines apply to research on modern tissue samples, up until now there has been little discussion about work on ancient human remains. In a recent paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics (DOI: 10.1136/jme.2010.036608), anatomist Frank Rühli and ethicist Ina Kaufmann of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, argue that this is disturbing because research on mummies is invasive and reveals intimate information [ continue reading Do Egyptian mummies have a right to privacy? ] 10 September 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, learning, nothing new under the sun, one world | comments are closed Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty’s launch. Fifteen years after theBounty mutiny, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps, resulting in the so-called Rum Rebellion. After his exoneration by the Court Martial inquiry into the loss of [ continue reading William Bligh ] Dicrocoelium dendriticum, better known as the lancet fluke, is a species of fluke that lives in the liver of grazing mammals such as sheep. Like most flukes, it has a 3 host life-cycle, the adult worm living inside the sheep, lay eggs which are shed into the environment with the sheep’s faeces. The first intermediate host for this parasite are terrestrial snails which become infected by accidentally ingesting the parasite’s eggs. The parasite undergoes clonal replication inside the snail, producing hundreds of infective larvae which are then packaged into slime balls and extruded into the environment. For some [ continue reading Dicrocoelium dendriticum – #parasite of the day ] Beware of Hanoverians You might not have noticed because most of the British press seems curiously reluctant to cover it, but earlier in the week, the New York Times produced some new evidence that the Conservative party’s chief spin doctor Andy Coulson knew much more about the phone hacking scandal of 2006 than he was letting on. Maybe they were too busy covering allegations regarding William Hague’s sexuality, and his emotional revelations about not being gay that came out at the same time, handily and totally coincidentally for the Conservatives’ spin doctor. Ahem. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Five Chinese Crackers: [ continue reading What would the Met get in return for not looking hard at News of the World phone hacking? ] 3 September 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed Well this is rich isn’t it? “If the app stops you having one ‘bad’ accident” – what is the sliding-scale and what would be accidental!! SHAME ON YOU TUAW – AND APPLE© FOR ALLOWING IT ON iTunes. Is Text’nDrive Pro worth $19.99? If you avoid even one traffic citation for “texting while driving,” you’d probably come out ahead. If the app keeps you from having a bad accident while you’re distracted by your iPhone, then it’s worth every penny you pay for it, and more. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TUAW review: Email while driving with Text’nDrive Pro [ continue reading be an ARSE and email while driving with Text’nDrive Pro for iPhone (!!! you what?) ] 20 August 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, cycling, location+, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, social media tools, the state we're in, transport, travel | comments are closed |  
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