Daily archives: March 19, 2006

Brown to raise the tax on soft roaders

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I like the name “soft roader”, it sounds so much more….. English than SUV.

The Daily Mail reports that Gordon Brown may be considering a rise in road tax for the most polluting cars to £200 a year. The new top rate will be for vehicles emitting more than 250 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre, catching all those school run monsters and a lot of luxury and sports cars.

Drivers’ groups will be up in arms, of course, and it will only be a symbolic charge anyway. The fuel costs of one of these monstrosities must be huge, bound to dwarf the cost of road tax. Maybe it’s time to put width or height restrictions on roads past schools (with bollards that only raise at school run time?). Or, even better, announce that every £200 raised taxing the mammoths would be spent to buy a bike for a school kid or commuter.

Update The Independent reports that road tax may also be waived for low emission vehicles.

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howtosavetheworldforfree.com

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How to Save The World for Free has now moved to its own domain- http://www.howtosavetheworldforfree.com/. It’s hosted by GreenWebHost, because I thought it would be appropriate.

The new rss feed is at http://www.howtosavetheworldforfree.com/ecoatom.xml.

For now I’m trying to get all the archives to publish, but Blogger’s being a pain in the arse. The archives at Spinneyhead will stay, because they still get search engine traffic, but I’m going to stick a redirect on the front page. Dig, Digest and 2 Wheels Good will come over as they have similar themes that will sit better as subdomains of howtosavetheworldforfree.com. When everything’s fully published I’ll think about converting to WordPress or some other publishing tool.

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howtosavetheworldforfree.com

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How to Save The World for Free has now moved to its own domain- http://www.howtosavetheworldforfree.com/. It’s hosted by GreenWebHost, because I thought it would be appropriate.

The new rss feed is at http://www.howtosavetheworldforfree.com/ecoatom.xml.

For now I’m trying to get all the archives to publish, but Blogger’s being a pain in the arse. The archives at Spinneyhead will stay, because they still get search engine traffic, but I’m going to stick a redirect on the front page. Dig, Digest and 2 Wheels Good will come over as they have similar themes that will sit better as subdomains of howtosavetheworldforfree.com. When everything’s fully published I’ll think about converting to WordPress or some other publishing tool.

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Something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong

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Fay Wray's nippleI got the original King Kong through Amazon rental, to see how it compared to the recent remake.

It doesn’t drag on the way the new one does- they’re on the boat within the first ten minutes, for instance. There are no pointless attempts to create depth, and there’s no need for them.

And it doesn’t have Jack Black in it.

Then, at one hour, nine minutes and thirty five seconds (I checked) Fay Wray surfaces after falling into the river from King Kong’s eyrie. And her right breast pops out.

Forget starlets trying to get themselves a bit of publicity, this is a 1930s screen goddess accidentally flashing in one of the most famous films of all time. It’s a PG!

I had to be sure, so a bit of screen capture and messing about in Photoshop was called for. I’m sure there are better things to do on a Sunday morning, but I had a lot to drink last night and needed to do something simple to restart the neurons.

What other classic film rudeness is there, I wonder?

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