Just seen Nicholas Courtney on the Sarah Jane Adventures (look I am not working at the moment and it is a darn sight better most of day time television. Anyway they had Nicholas Courtney reprising Alastair Lethbridge Stewart today. It was quite fun as they tried to play up the differences between now and the good old days. The trouble is it did not
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The important things are its 1600 lb, 8 legged monster of steel and destruction and it looks really fun to drive: http://www.mondospider.com/index.php (pictures of mechanical spider)
And for today's idiocy on morning. a programme on BBC1 saying that you can make money out of property at the moment. That banging sound is me using my head as a pile driver. And to just make things better it is followed by a programme about buying property at auction. And they said that bankers were carrying on regardless of risk.
Another attempt to work out the exact composition of the orb spiders web silk (it is incredibly strong and flexible, its just nobody but small spiders know how to make it). n.b. pictures of spiders, normal bbc news stuff
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