“Okay, I may have been an ambassador and fairly competent warrior in the last two, but I think I’ll spend this movie flouncing around in gossamer maternity wear and occasionally simpering over Anakin.”
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“That’s soooo unfair! I hate you! I’m going over to the Dark Side and you! can’t! stop! me!”
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A couple of weeks ago, whilst on my Bullshit to Work course, I wrote a business plan for professional blogging. there was nothing else to do. I’ve just typed it up and it’s the new Cycling on the Pavement. Any input welcome, particularly from anyone who is an actual professional blogger.
A couple of things have changed. I haven’t received a reply from the company that makes model Tardis’ and I have a job, so a full day’s work at the blogface is no longer possible.
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Manchester’s Critical Mass does have a website. No Mass tomorrow, but June’s is meeting up with the G8bike ride.
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I’ve carried some impressive loads on my bikes over the years. Panniers were the most effective things I ever fitted and I kind of miss them on my current bikes. However, I think I’d like the set up sold by Xtracycle even more. the Free Radical extends the wheelbase of a bike and allows loads to be carried around and above th erear wheel. This lowers the centre of gravity and increases the capacity.
via Treehugger
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“Farewell Chewbacca. Miss you I shall.”
“Rawawawawawawaaawwww!” (Rough translation “Who the fuck’s Chewbacca? My name’s Mugnappa. The little green bastard’s speciesist and thinks we all look the same. That does it, I’m off to shag a chihuahua and make ewoks. That’ll teach the Jedi.”)
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I really need to stop biting my nails. Here’s how one person (almost) managed.
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See what happens when you nationalise (empirise?) Death Star building? It takes twenty something years to finish and then your sidekick’s kids come along and destroy it.
Now if only Darth Sid had put it out to tender and trusted in the Free Market, it could have been finished before Luke or Leia reached rebelling age.
Of course, if there was the wrong sort of photon on the track……
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Ofcom’s new rules are mature and quite sensible- whether something can be shown depends upon the time of day, context and whether viewers have been appropriately informed- so obviously people are going to dwell upon the comments about sex with animals.
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Was it just me, or were those babies huge? No wonder she died in childbirth.
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13 ways to be a more productive blogger. I am trying most of these. I have about an hour before work and a couple of hours when I get back in which to blog and I’m trying to produce original stuff, offline, at other times.
via Problogger
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I’ve collected a few pictures that could be uploaded to this site whilst taking shots for Discontinuous Infill.
via BoingBoing
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responsibletravel.com is an on-line travel agent launched in 2001 for travellers who want more real and authentic holidays that also benefit the environment and local people. We market carefully pre-screened holidays from over 270 leading worldwide tourism brands and businesses. We do not act as a middleman – you can use the site to contact the experts who run the trips and hotels directly to make a booking
Thanks to Jo
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American insurance company Progressive has a page of videos from crash tests carried out by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. I don’t know if they tell you much about the relative safety of the cars, but they look like editing fodder to me.
via Screenhead
Revenge of the Sith
I guess the special effects were good.
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Another two Creationism links-
Richard Dawkins- Creationism: God’s gift to the ignorant.
And 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
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Could the UK be heading toward a Carbon Tax? The Royal Society certainly thinks we should be. Start investing in Green tech now, just in case.
via Worldchanging
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The anti-evolution stickers plastered across school textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia are being removed after a federal judge agreed they violated the separation of church and state. Of course, the Creationists can’t accept that they’re wrong and are going to appeal.
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As promised, a time lapse rendition of (three quarters of, the battery died) our trek up Sca Fell Pike on Sunday told in phone cam pictures hand stitched together because it took less time than finding a program that would do it for me. 5 seconds of QuickTime, just under a meg in size.
Technorati tag: Sca Fell Pike, Time Lapse, Video
Originally developed as an anti-depressant, Dapoxetine succeeds in a slightly different way to the one planned- it can be used as a treatment for premature ejaculation, making a man last up to three times longer than usual.
The men in the trial were all in monogamous sexual relationships. Before taking the drug, they typically lasted less than a minute in the sexual act. On the highest dose of the drug, patients lasted around 3 minutes 20 seconds, the company reported.
Just over half of the men who took the drug described the control they had over their ejaculation as “fair” to “very good”, compared to about 3% of those who did not take the treatment. The number of men describing the sexual satisfaction as “good” to “very good” almost doubled to 46.5%. Their sexual partners reported a similar experience.