First Attempt

Apr 21

You learn something new every time you watch QI.

Apr 20

I now completely sympathise with the Luddites.

Bill, did you know that Ned Ludd came from Anstey? He could be the most famous Leicester lad of all time.

I’m happy to report that the very brief British asparagus season is now upon us. The photo shows my current favourite way of preparing the stuff, deep fried in a cider batter.

Antioxidant study condemned by Sir Cliff Richard

The recent study that showed antioxidant supplements are at best useless and may be harmful has been condemned by a bizarre group of has-beens and z-list celebrities:

“Sir Cliff Richard, Gloria Hunniford, Jenny Seagrove and Carole Caplin have joined health industry experts in rejecting the widely publicised antioxidant review and reassuring consumers that concerns over these supplements are unfounded.”

Apr 19

tallulah:

Experience democracy in action by watching these edited “highlights” from the Alabama House of Representatives discussion of the Free the Hops bill.

My favorite moment occurs at 5:30.

The moment at 5:30 is worth a listen. It features the comments of Representative Alvin A. Holmes, a man who is clearly an idiot, but who is an idiot in quite an engaging way.

Apr 17

I have noticed that this video of my friend Simon attempting to be a DJ has been used by an number of American DJ sites as an example of poor quality DJing. Here’s an example:
standixon.com/BadDJ.html

Click the link that says “Is THIS the DJ you want for your reception?”

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Vimeo videos no longer play on AOL, if you click play it’ll redirect you to the Vimeo video page and play there.

I realize this isn’t perfect but given the limitations of our current privacy tools it’s the best we could do short of banning all videos from even appearing on AOL. Again, in the future we’ll have tools to control this with more granularity.

” Andrew Pile, Vimeo staff member. It’s a very good solution for the time being. What a helpful chap.

Apr 16

Vitamin supplements may increase risk of death

According to a review of 67 studies with more than 230,000 subjects, ”current evidence does not support the use of antioxidant supplements in the general healthy population or in patients with certain diseases.”

Apr 15

Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith

Mark E. Smith has managed to find enough time between touring with The Fall and slaughtering squirrels to write his autobiography.

Apr 13

A video report on the sale of the photo of the President of France’s missus at Christie’s. The video lingers closely on the tasteful artistic study of Madame Sarkozy, and it stands up well to repeated scrutiny.