Another cliched Transylvanian joke
Yes, I have just ripped it off from Steve Bell but it’s funny.
Technorati tag: Politics, Conservatives
Daily archives: April 13, 2005
Happy Finish
According to McCoy’s Street Plan For Men, Manchester is the UK’s massage parlour capital.
the book’s Staffordshire-based author, George McCoy, said that his guide – which also lists saunas, adult cinemas and lapdancing clubs – sought only to provide better information on an already existing trade.
He said: “Manchester is the UK capital for massage parlours. There is a refreshing honesty in Manchester about this. You don’t get the hoohah that you do in London about it, probably because people are a bit more down to earth.”
Technorati tag: Manchester, Sleaze
I can see you
With the news that GoogleLocal should be going beta for the UK (I’ll track down the link later) I’m looking forward to finding cool stuff hidden in the satellite images.
Technorati tag: Technology, Google
More toilet paper
Labour has launched its election manifesto. PDF file available here.
Perhaps when the LibDem one is issued I’ll sit down with the three main parties and the Greens and do a compare and contrast.
Reefer
Cult anti drug movie Reefer Madness has been reimagined as a musical satire on government misinformation and scare campaigns.
You can download the original from the Internet Archive here.
The bride wore green
I doubt Greensage will ship to the UK, the shipping would negate any ecological benefits from the products, but if you’re in the US and want an Earth friendly wedding, they offer a wedding list service.
via Treehugger
Technorati tag: Green Shopping
Domespace
They look like a Teletubby home, but Domespace buildings are optimised to catch the sun, made from renewable nmaterials and can even turn to track the best light during the day. All you need to do is dress your Vroomba up as NuNu and you’re sorted.
via Treehugger
Technorati tag: EcoHouse
Six of one, half a dozen the other
With Chloroflourocarbons phased out the ozone layer may be safer, but the replacement chemicals are proving to be greenhouse gases.
“Initially, it was thought these were an ideal solution — obviously that was not the case if they were contributing to another problem.”
While CFCs contribute more per unit to global warming, the rapid increase in the use of replacement chemicals makes them now the greater threat to climate stability, Metz told the AP in a telephone interview.
Technorati tag: CFCs, greenhouse gases
Enter the Matrix
Matrix is the latest clever weapon for the US Army, allowing soldiers to remotely detonate mines and claymores from a touch screen laptop.
Users of the system will be able to choose between blasting their enemies with Claymores, which spit out hundreds of steel balls propelled by plastic explosives, or with the M5 Modular Crowd Control Munition, a non-lethal take on the Claymore that sprays rubber balls instead of steel.
Contagious
Tim sent me the link for the first Contagious Media Showdown. I really have to think of something to enter. Give me a few days.
Which end's the sharp one?
Lifehacker has a short round up of food links.
Technorati tag: Food
Cliched Transylvanian joke
Make your own Conservative election poster. And he does look like Grandpa Munster, so there.
via Honourable Fiend
Technorati tag: Politics, Election, Conservatives
Virtual Hangar
The National Museum of the United States Air Force, a good source for information and pictures. It has a brief history of every aircraft type used or built for the USAF, including X planes.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Model Aeroplanes
Turkey Guts
I was very excited by Thermal Conversion (then referred to as Thermal Depolymerisation) when I first heard about it two years ago. After ten years of development the first Thermal Conversion Process plant has gone live. However, it may not be able to fulfill its promise because of technicalities in the renewable energy funding process.
According to the company, CWT is unable to expand its U.S. operations due to limitations on the tax credit definition created by the Jobs Bill of 2004. Wording in the bill promotes development of biodiesel fuel from specific feedstocks, Appel said, but to the exclusion of other renewable energy sources such as oil produced by TCP. The Jobs Bill grants a tax credit of 50 cents to the dollar per gallon of biodiesel specifically derived from virgin soybeans and used cooking oils. CWT’s TCP-derived fuel, which meets the universal definition of biodiesel as a liquid fuel produced from biomass and utilizes animal waste from nearby poultry processing facilities as its feedstock, is excluded from the tax credit.
Also see Cycling on the Pavement: USS Blowjob for a fictional take of TCP/TDP use.
via Sustainablog
Technorati tag: Biodiesel, Thermal Conversion Process
Refresh
Due to Blogger being a bit crap, I’ve been unable to automatically update the whole site to the new layout, so between times I’m going back and doing it manually. It’s a bit of a slog. One day I ought to go over to Movable Type or something, but there’ll have to be a reliable way to transfer all the archives.
Technorati tag: Blogger