Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Checking to see if it works...

Then I can bore you from afar...and maybe with pics
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Amazing colour film of 1920's London...

Lived in London a few times, went to school there for a while....love the place, miss the place

Stunning colour film of 1920s London… « How to be a Retronaut

Animals on drugs: 11 unlikely highs

Worlds First DJ...apparently

Klaus Quirini claims to be the first DJ in the world. Obviously this is an extremely
dubious claim that nobody could ever really prove, but so far no one’s
kicked up a fuss about it, so we’re just going to buy it. Why not?

THIS GUY SAYS HE WAS THE WORLD’S FIRST DJ | Viceland.com

Climate Change.....disappearing up their own arses?

Governments
around the world rely on findings by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change to support policies on climate change, but the
organisation has presided over a series of damaging blunders.


BBC News - Newsnight - Does world of climate science need a radical rethink?

The gunfighter's dilemma

Excessive internet use linked to depression, research shows

British psychologists have found evidence of a link between excessive internet use and depression, research published today has shown.
Leeds University researchers, writing in the Psychopathology journal (abstract here – subscription required for full pdf),
said a small proportion of internet users were classed as internet
addicts and that people in this group were more likely to be depressed
than non-addicted users.

Excessive internet use linked to depression, research shows | Technology | guardian.co.uk

This would be more interesting for my mate, but here it is anyway

'Living beach ball' is giant single cell

In the late summer of 1882, a ship called the Triton
cruised the chilly seas north of Scotland. As it went, it dredged the
sea bed for specimens of unknown creatures, under the guidance of the
oceanographer John Murray.

Zoologger: 'Living beach ball' is giant single cell - life - 03 February 2010 - New Scientist