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"Next to Al Gore, William Connolley may be the world's most influential person in the global warming debate...". It would be nice; sadly its only the opinion of Lawrence Solomon, who is, errrrm, not very well informed. LS's attempts to...
Posted on May 3, 2008 4:35 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Do you realise that bufapopo doesn't get a single google hit? Its outrageous. Badger would be appalled. [Seems pretty clear that youre not going to get it, so I'll have to tell you. Read on...]...
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Posted on April 13, 2008 5:40 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Who's there? Cows-go. Cow-go who?...
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Posted on March 2, 2008 5:01 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Seen in a local Oxfam bookshop. Are you familiar with the Profanisaurus? Mind you, its better than Trinny and Susannah....
Posted on February 5, 2008 5:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yikes! Said my daughter this morning. I thought the gentle art of saying Yikes had died out. How pleasant to be mistaken. Now all I need is for someone to say Zounds! in my presence. Meanwhile... you've seen the BAS...
Posted on December 21, 2007 4:11 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cute power density factoid, which I owe to Eric Chaisson: humans have far higher power densities than stars. The solar luminosity is about 4.10^27 W, the mass is about 2.10^30 kg; so the power density is 2.10^-3 W/kg. Human use...
Posted on December 3, 2007 4:17 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Found amongst some old papers....
Posted on November 29, 2007 4:04 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Physics Phun from CIP...
Posted on November 24, 2007 5:47 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm still pondering doom but in the meantime, via Wolfgang via CIP, three blind elephants and a man may amuse....
Posted on October 6, 2007 2:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ethon is in danger of deletion. As it says "Google for "ethon + prometheus -wikipedia" gives a handful of hits from nonreliable sources". Eli unreliable? But at least I now know what all that liver stuff was about....
Posted on September 21, 2007 12:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For light relief, look at the pic at CM's latest h post, and if nothing springs to mind, check the comments :-)...
Posted on September 5, 2007 7:26 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thanks to Hank for http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wikipedian_protester.png (in the comments off where you'll never see it). Its a fun site though. I liked regexp; random; godwin and this. And lots of others... fun to browse....
Posted on July 4, 2007 6:42 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well of course we are - everyone does. But are we all going to die of global warming? Lovelock thinks so, and so does a member of Royalty: we are "all going to die like the dinosaurs and another species...
Posted on June 18, 2007 12:46 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A reader enquires the right-wing blogosphere and US media is reporting that Al Gore planned a rock concert in Antarctica in July, but when contacting BAS was told that it's mid-winter and a bad time to make the attempt (e.g....
Posted on June 14, 2007 4:37 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apologies in advance for this post... latest news story is Four charged over 'plan to blow-up JFK'. Which is only funny because of US Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf. How can you be called mouse head? I'm allowed one of these each...
Posted on June 2, 2007 5:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Following JFs example, I've created a rather more useful comparison: see . Proof that weasels are more popular than stoats. Isn't technology wonderful?...
Posted on May 24, 2007 4:20 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am a Dragon. I emerge from my Egg. More...
