I've posted this everywhere else. Here it is on LJ. One of the best stories I've heard all year, told brilliantly by the documentary team on board the Rainbow Warrior.

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Would you like a slice of bread?
  No
Would you like a slice of bread with peanut butter?
  No
Would you like a slice of bread with apple syrup?
  No
Would you like a slice of bread with pink flamingos?
  Yes
[checks cupboard]
We're out of Pink Flamingos, would you like peanut butter?
  Yes

I've spent a bit of time recently tracking down an old bit of Greenpeace history. There's a couple of documentaries coming out that both used the first verse of the song below and I wanted to know what it was. Some asking around led me to the documentary 'To save a whale', which contains the five verses I've transcribed and is clearly the source ( Read more... )

Friday was our five year wedding anniversary. Since then we´ve managed two kids, one house and four new jobs between us. Who knows what the next five years will bring ( Read more... )

Gosh, it's a while since I've written one of these, or indeed anything. So, onwards.

( We're all going on a summer holiday )

Given that I think the Eurozone, the UK and the USA have been persistently pursuing the wrong macro-economic strategy for more or less the last two years I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that we appear to be heading into, at the very least, an extended slump.

This is going to be really unpleasant, particularly since a lot of the political and ( Read more... )

As parts of the global economy grind to a standstill once more the price of oil has plummeted. All the way to $95.

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Here's a more detailed write up on the German study re Insurance costs

www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/3459

As the Japanese are finding out, there's nothing theoretical about this.

From California comes this

California Energy Commission: COMPARATIVE COSTS OF CALIFORNIA CENTRAL STATION ELECTRICITY GENERATION
http://www.energy.ca.gov/2009publications/CEC-200-2009-017/CEC-200-2009-017-SF.PDF

The report shows - among many other things - that in 2018, a 960 MW Perssurized Water Reactor would generate ( Read more... )