Don't Panic!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the 2005 General Elections.
If you haven’t found the BBC H2G2 pages before, a tour can be found here.
And of course, no Hitchhiker’s post would be complete without a link to the film due out shortly.
Daily archives: April 19, 2005
Round the Bend
Every so often a local paper will do a human interest story about modellers, trying to explain the dedication that goes into taking 12 years to build a railway layout. The subject almost always comes off as a little obsessive, but that’s in the nature of the hobby.
Technorati tag: Model Railway
Forage
Digest- the Spinneyhead food, diet and health blog- will be launching later this week. Amongst the planned features, my sister is going to be writing up her experiences of growing food in a small city garden and the urban opportunities open to the keen epicurean. In the mean time, Off Grid reviews books dedicated to “Wild foods”.
Technorati tag: Wild food
Play shelves
Tetris shelves. As Gizmodo notes “if you don�t stack them correctly, they disappear and you have to buy them all over.”
Oh, and they cost $7,000 for 10 pieces.
Technorati tag: Furniture
Saving the Earth, one room at a time
Green Remodelling, a guide to improving your home and lowering your ecological impact in easy stages.
via Treehugger
Technorati tag: Books
A+
It’s going to be a long time before I can afford to build my own eco-house, or own an ordinary one to make more efficient. Until then I’ll have to get by trying to green up rented places. This is a tricky prospect, because some of the most power hungry equipment is the stuff the landlord includes in the deal. I’ve purchased a washing machine for a flat, but the real baddie in the kitchen, it would appear, is that whitest of white goods- the fridge.
Technorati tag: Energy efficiency
Green bags
Hippyshopper points us all to alotoforganics, their favourite source for all things green and ethical.
Technorati tag: Organic
Value for money, part two
In a similar vein to my rant about energy efficiency and property values, Worldchanging reprints an essay about the hidden benefits of greening.
Technorati tag: Energy efficiency, Green business
Nancy
Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys are back. They’ve been resurrected in a series of manga styled graphic novels, the better, it is hoped, to appeal to young readers.
Nancy Drew: The Demon of River Heights: No. 1
Nancy Drew: Writ in Stone: No. 2
Extreme Danger (Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers)
You are there
Google Maps UK and Google Local UK. No satellite photos yet, but you can track down kebabs in Manchester.
Via GoogleBlog/ Bleepblog
It wasn't me
via the Observer blog
Pro and Con
The Independent assesses the cases for and against various organic foods. Organic milk, pork and chicken are definitely better, whereas with fruit and veg the important thing is to eat, or freeze, them as soon after harvesting as possible.
Technorati tag: Food
Brainzzzzz
How to survive a zombie attack. And to see if you were paying attention, there’s a test. I came out as 65% survivor, but I did have to shoot a few friends in the head when they were bitten.
Technorati tag: Zombies
And we're back
Apologies for the disappearance, but Casa Spinneyhead was temporarily without broadband. I was all listless and confused. But, on the plus side, I did finish one book and am halfway through Going Postal already. Reviews to follow.