Speaking of Leo McKern, John Mortimer, author of Rumpole of the Bailey, has died.
Single Gun Theory - just because.
The ITN newsreader is definitely English, although I'm not sure exactly whereabouts. In return: Zod Kitchens
Instead of watching paint dry, why not renovate? (via James Nicoll)
Gunnerkrigg Court Recomended by John Allison of Scarygoround
What kind of beast is vulnerable to a glass caltrop? What are you administering with a glass syringe that’s five and a half feet long? What fiber, what yarn, requires a fully functional glass spinning wheel?
What good is a glass dagger?
Melbourne spreads around over an immense area of ground. It is a stately city architecturally as well as in magnitude. It has an elaborate system of cable-car service; it has museums, and colleges, and schools, and public gardens, and electricity, and gas, and libraries, and ,theaters, and mining centers, and wool centers, and centers of the arts and sciences, and boards of trade, and ships, and railroads, and a harbor, and social clubs, and journalistic clubs, and racing clubs, and a squatter club sumptuously housed and appointed, and as many churches and banks as can make a living. In a word, it is equipped with everything that goes to make the modern great city. It is the largest city of Australasia, and fills the post with honor and credit. It has one specialty; this must not be jumbled in with those other things. It is the mitred Metropolitan of the Horse-Racing Cult. Its race-ground is the Mecca of Australasia. On the great annual day of sacrifice--the 5th of November, Guy Fawkes's Day--business is suspended over a stretch of land and sea as wide as from New York to San Francisco, and deeper than from the northern lakes to the Gulf of Mexico; and every man and woman, of high degree or low, who can afford the expense, put away their other duties and come. They begin to swarm in by ship and rail a fortnight before the day, and they swarm thicker and thicker day after day, until all the vehicles of transportation are taxed to their uttermost to meet the demands of the occasion, and all hotels and lodgings are bulging outward because of the pressure from within. They come a hundred thousand strong, as all the best authorities say, and they pack the spacious grounds and grandstands and make a spectacle such as is never to be seen in Australasia elsewhere.
It is the "Melbourne Cup" that brings this multitude together. Their clothes have been ordered long ago, at unlimited cost, and without bounds as to beauty and magnificence, and have been kept in concealment until now, for unto this day are they consecrate. I am speaking of the ladies' clothes; but one might know that.
Mark Twain, Following The Equator
And the winner is: Efficient
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
IPCC and Al Gore win Nobel Peace Prize.
How much are we willing to risk undoing the industrial revolution? Will that even do the trick?
Oh for fuck's sake!
it's that the remedies being discussed are extreme and that there are extreme penalties for being wrong.
More FUD. Prove it. Do the calculations. Show your work.
BTW the science of global warming is not based on computer models, it's based on data like this .
There are plenty of GW proponents whose commitment transcends the possibility of scientific refutation.
Bullshit.
By the way, there's also Seed magazine which does a pretty good job of running a group of science-based blogs at scinceblogs.com
And if you go look at some of the other things that we know have a huge effect on climate-- volcanic eruptions, solar output, etc.-- you find that in a lot of those fields they don't think they know as much as the global warming crew attributes to them
This is FUD, not fact.
Tonstant Weader gibbered piteously...
I am afraid for Abi that the rescue squad will never turn up in person.
This is the followup to PNH's xkcd Sidelight.
Wh does Voldemort whisper "Rosebud" when he snuffs it?
#4, Shouldn't that be: "I've got a bad feeling about this"?
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