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For those of you feeling a bit under the weather today...
This just made me laugh like a drain:
I quote 'Boston Dynamics, Inc, a company spun off from MIT in 1992, last week won $10m of Pentagon cash. This was for the construction of "a dog-like robot with the capability to run fast, traverse trough [sic] terrain, jump over obstacles one metre tall or two metres wide, and operate for two hours without ( Read more... ) -
the revolutionary badger army is at your command...
I know several people have linked to this already, but it's still amusing me hugely. Basra locals accuse the British Army of releasing a plague of ravening badgers upon the city. Yes, really.
Particularly prompted by my discovery of this spoof news story from a couple of weeks ago, including a *fantastic* picture of a badger sitting in a tank, ( Read more... ) -
Deeply cool link from booklectic
Graffiti made from light, done with glowsticks, fireworks, etc. and long exposure photography.
This one's my favourite :-)
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And in other news...
Brighton is apparently full of werewolves, at least according to the local police, who seem to have an interesting grasp of the concept of correlation.. -
Yay Monday (?!)
It's Monday morning and yet I am feeling quite bouncy. This is probably something to do with having finished off several projects last week, having had one paper published and another accepted by a journal, a chilled weekend involving a housewarming, a softfruit, hippies having taken over Platt Fields Park, lots of lazing about in the sunshine, and being ( Read more... ) -
aagh!
The NHS is planning a database for holding information about the sexual behaviour of gay men in London. Tender documents for the project "included plans to register everyone living with HIV and 'interrogate the database' to follow up clients who did not come forward for an assessment of needs ( Read more... ) -
Looking for creative folks..
Went to a meeting last night about that exhibition I'm putting stuff in for last night. Tis definitely going ahead, so I now have to get lots of prints done, and hopefully some will turn out good enough for it, so am now a bit nervous. This was esp cos all the other folk there were proper, professionaly trained, starving artist types, albeit ( Read more... ) -
Oh *lovely*
It turns out that the guy who's going to run the shiny new supercasino in Manchester is one Sol Kerzner, the man who made his fortune running Sun City during apartheid era S. Africa. It also transpires that he would have been the other partner in the proposed Millenium Dome casino bid, the better known partner being Philip Anschutz, the guy who ( Read more... ) -
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It looks like 1990s indiehippies James are reforming, and will be playing in Manc on the 28th April.
Anyone up for going?
