New Times
Digital lego Batman! With the voices of Adam West, Mark Hamill and Dick Van Dyke.
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Daily archives: March 16, 2005
St. Paddy
Yes, Spinneyhead has gone a sickly shade of green. It’s a colour change for St Patrick’s Day. I’m putting it up early and changing the CSS back some time on Friday because I’m too lazy to be there at midnight two days running.
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The crowd are in the House
The Guardian’s alternative, sports journalist’s, view of the Budget.
1pm “Peter Hain is officially Tangoman,” opines Martin Williamson. “He has a permatan … proof that too much sun causes you to spout utter *******”. I know who Tangoman is – I loved those ads, the ones with football’s Ray Wilkins – but Peter Hain? Is he in politics?
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Food Miles
Air freightng food overnight just so we can have out of season veg is the worst offender when it comes to the hidden cost of our food, but domestic production, being much larger, causes more damage overall. The best solution is to get food as near as possible to straight from the farmer, preferably grown within 20km of your home. Which is close to what Northern Harvest achieves, so I’m a bit smug.
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Hug your sheep
Sheep make friends. Though ewes can be sluts, quickly forgetting those they’ve been “closely associated with”.
found by Tim.
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Emissions Neutral Vehicle
The ENV is a fuel cell powered motorbike that runs so silently its manufacturers are thinking of adding an artificial vroom.
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Sunlight in a tube
Scientists have developed a way to get sunlight deep inside buildings using optical fibres. The sysytem would allow major savings on electric lighting during daylight, and be backed up by flourescent tubes when it is dark or overcast.
via Slashdot
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Mega mega photography
Introducing 144 megapixel digital photography. The images require longer exposures, but the results can be so precise they can be used iunstead of architectural drawings.
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Spreading Terror
A Marmite advert is no longer to be shown during kids’ programmes because a few tikes were scared by it. Maybe I should complain that those Carol Vorderman finance adverts make me want to vomit.
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Hitler's Bomb
A new book suggests that the Nazis got as far as testing a nuclear device, killing hundreds of prisoners, in March of 1945.
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Flash
Get on down to Exchange Square on Monday for the BBC’s Last Laugh Flash Mob.
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Utility Scale
Farmers in Michigan are turning to wind power as an alternate source of revenue or supply, despite the state having no Alternative Energy policy. A couple of turbines can go a long way toward writing off large energy bills, or the land could be leased to companies wanting to set up their own windmills.
via Sustainablog
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Over the Hump
A follow up to yesterday’s Peak Oil post. Top energy industry analysts Herold have started doing a company by company analysis of when supplies will run out. (Salon article, take a Day Pass to be able to read it.)
Technorati tag: Oil