Daily archives: January 19, 2007


Oh no, oh no, oh no

I love myself I want you to love me
When I feel down I want you above me
I search myself I want you to find me
I forget myself I want you to remind me

I don’t want anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself
Ooh I don’t want anybody else Oh no, oh no, oh no

Divinyls – I Touch Myself
I think this one sneaked into my head with the help of alcohol on Saturday night.


Fast boats and sleepy villages

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2554828,00.html
£350,000 would buy you a speedboat capable of going 70 miles per hour and carrying up to six tons of drugs which was virtually undetectable.  Just what every fisherman needs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=RKVX2IHBRMVYNQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/01/19/wspain19.xml

A whole Spanish village is suspected in the murder of its unpopular mayor.  Fago is the second smallest village in its region and its mayor of 12 years was in fear of his life and contemplating standing down when he was shot multiple times on his way back from a meeting in another town.  This sounds like the plot to the sort of film Gerard Depardieu would appear in.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml;jsessionid=RKVX2IHBRMVYNQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/portal/2007/01/19/ftshop119.xml

How Green is your supermarket?  Following Tescos and Marks & Spencers’ announcements, the Telegraph tests the big four to see how they’re doing at present.

http://www.geni.com/tree/start
Flash based family tree thingy.  Mum’s doing the family tree at the moment, but I think she’s a long way past this level of complexity.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/19/ndress19.xml
Dissolving dresses as a metaphor for throwaway culture.


Green Value products

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6276351.stm
Tesco is the latest supermarket chain to insist it is going Green.  The problem is, the Greenest thing many Tesco stores could do would be to close, because the emissions from all the cars driving to them is greater than any direct or indirect CO2 production getting the products on the shelves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6275179.stm
Scientists have developed a "health check" that can predict how farming methods will affect an area’s biodiversity.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6271833.stm
The 1918 Spanish Flu was particularly nasty, messing with victims’ immune systems.

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving/story/0,,1994096,00.html
Green cleaning put to the test.