Via Cake Wrecks, I became aware of these wonderful zoetrope cakes. Yes you read that correctly. Go have a look! There’s another lovely one at Cake Wrecks, but I can’t get it to embed…go check it out…
I’m blogging about Easter again, sorry. This time spurred by an online conversation between friends about the appropriateness or not of being wished “Happy Easter” on Good Friday. Classicists of the world, wrack off – yes I DO know the entire event was probably lifted from pre-existing pagan rites of spring, but for the purposes [...]
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Tagged 9/11, christianity, Easter, ground zero, islam, Jesus, Jonathan Jones, Judaism, magnum, New York, photography, september 11th, the guardian, the meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo, The Passion, Thomas Hoepker, twin towers
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Scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars. It is built from thousands of individual images acquired by two UK-developed telescopes operating in Hawaii and in Chile. Archived data from the project, known as the Vista Data Flow System, will be mined [...]
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Tagged a billion stars, astronomy, dr nick cross, eye candy du jour, mike read, milky way, photography, UK national astronomy meeting, UKIDSS/GPS sky survey, university of cambridge, university of edinburgh, vista data flow system
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February 20, 2012 – 6:53 pm
… Just sayin’. I saw this handwritten on a notice stuck to the bar in a pub the other day, and I thought it was pretty good — good enough to steal, anyway. As many of our readers know, we run advertisements on this blog with a view to paying Jacques for his sterling efforts, [...]
From China, the intriguing news that scientists have genetically modified cows to produce milk with human proteins in it. This is not the same things as genetically modifying cows to ‘produce human milk’, as it has been reported. To me, this is a truly bizarre story. Presumably, this project was the result of several appalling [...]
Because I have a strong feeling that anything less will invite disbelief. In the alternative, I need to give my unwilling suspension of disbelief a bit of a rest. [I am, in case you hadn't noticed, talking about Osama bin Laden, who has cashed in his chips at last. Good riddance to bad rubbish].
It’s really annoying. You go to all the trouble of arranging a Royal Zombie Wedding Celebration and nobody comes… …because they’re kettled by the police a few blocks away being stopped and searched, questioned, arrested and drug tested. “Sorry son, you’re positive for formaldehyde. We’ll have to take you in…” We asked if we could [...]
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Tagged Banksy, british monarchy, british police, Chris Knight, constitutional convention, FITwatch, flashmob, Forward Intelligence Taskforce, Liberty, London, magna carta, metropolitan police, muslims against crusades, parliament, police, protest, public order, quakers, queer resistance, royal family, royal wedding, section 44, section 60, starbucks, stop and search, street party, the westminster system, UK parliament, zombie arrests, zombie flashmob, zombie royal wedding celebration, zombies
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There was an interesting article in The Australian today that the “Bright burning star at the birth of King Charles II was supernova, Cassiopeia A” but when I went looking for a better picture I found this one of centaurus instead. NASA APOD, April 13th – Centaurus Radio Jets Rising Credit: Ilana Feain, Tim Cornwell [...]
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Tagged astronomy, ATCA, ATNF, Australian Telescope Compact Array, cassiopeia A, centaurus, CSIRO, eye candy du jour, king charles II, Narrabri, NASA, New South Wales, photography, radio telescope, supernova
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I work at a university, and I drive to work. Accordingly, there is plenty of opportunity to observe bicycle-car interactions at their most crazy. The Age had the following report today which doesn’t surprise me at all: Melbourne cyclists are running red lights at an alarming rate, with hundreds detected in a covert operation; at [...]
A wee request
In the last six months or so, we’ve received a number of requests to publish guest posts on this blog from people who are strangers to us. At first, I assumed the messages were spam, and just ignored them. However, over the last couple of months the volume has increased considerably and it’s become clear [...]