Oh, the shame. Remembering giving a lap dance in the style of Kath and Kim is the new remembering stupid dance floor moves the morning after the night before.
Otoh, I picked up on the night bus home. Well, a drunk woman put her arm around me and fell asleep on my shoulder.
Monthly Archives: August 2005
Waaah! The BBC weather site forecast for today is “Last of the summer heat.”.
Friends of the Earth has a campaign for real food. You can take action on issues like Tesco’s dominance of the UK market, and GM foods.
Which reminds me, a while ago I signed a petition at Bite Back (a site about shark and marine conservation), and got this email a while later:
“Thank you. The Bite-Back campaign emails you sent have helped inspire Tesco, the country’s biggest food retailer, to stop selling swordfish and marlin.
It is now impossible to buy either fish species from any of Tesco’s 1779 stores. In fact, because of your support for Bite-Back it is also impossible to buy shark at any ASDA store and it’s no longer possible to find swordfish or marlin on the shelves at Sainsbury’s.
Your emails have helped inspire these retailers to amend their buying policies in favour of some of the most threatened fish on the planet. Congratulations!”
It’s lovely to know that petitions can work. A few clicks, and some re-writing of emails to personalise them takes a tiny bit of my lunch break, and it can make a big difference. Yay!
“…the use of the vegetables was a totally unacceptable way of getting staff to perform”. (Guardian)
Do you think any of these are the ‘Greatest Painting in Britain’?
Ancient Egyptian gossip discovered.
“Plans are under way to excavate the wreckage of a Chinese ship that sunk in the Indian Ocean, off Siyu Island, about six centuries ago.
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“A lot has been said about the ship that is believed to have been in the fleet of the legendary Chinese mariner Zheng He, but it is still not clear where exactly it sunk and what other relevant information is buried with it” (AllAfrica.com)
Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names. Arsole, anyone?
Scientists recommend siestas. Good scientists! Now recommend everyone send me food.
“A frog species which had a distinct Norfolk accent, but which became extinct in England in the 1990s is being reintroduced.” BBC
Logic and Christianity aren’t two words you hear together often, but this page on logical fallacies is really good. Oddly enough, I found it by googling “killer wombats”.
I haven’t written about the Big Chill yet, I think cos I had such a mixed experience. The festival was great, though the stall was really hard work and Min and I were robbed while we were asleep in our tent. I had randomly moved my purse from my bag so they didn’t get much from me, but she lost 150 pounds. Punchdrunk and the Arts trail were lots of fun, and it was lovely to see people, though I didn’t get to spend as much time with some people as I would have liked, I got to spend time with other people. Overall the festival was much less about the music than I’d expected it to be.