An interesting video via ZeroHedge showing someone in Tokyo measuring the amount of radiation outside their home. Before the video, a little background on radiation measurements. The meter itself is measuring micro sieverts and normal back ground rates will be...
Two thirds of NHS trusts ignore IVF guidelines – why is it not all of them?
Shocking news from The BBC that 70% of NHS trusts are not offering IVF treatment that complies with official guidelines : More than 70% of NHS trusts and care providers are ignoring official guidance on offering infertile couples three chances at IVF, according to a...
Pictorial Interlude – Zombie Peanuts
Very, very clever and damned amusing : H/T Rain
Mugshots of the day revisited (again).
Having previously written about Mugshot of The Day, the Maricopa County police departments online service where you can vote for your favourite inmate mugshot, I am still wondering when the idea will be picked up here in a modern day version of the public stocks. It...
And you are unemployed why exactly?
The quote below was spotted in amongst the comments on a BBC article about housing benefit cuts for those people with "spare" rooms in their funded social housing. You would have thought that people could differentiate between a discussion thread and an sms but that...
Jumpy Japanese panic over video of an earless Fukushima rabbit.
When the government is being economical with the truth and the power plant operator taking 5 weeks to admit their reactor melted down a few hours after the earthquake it's hardly surprising that the people will panic after seeing online video reports of mutant earless...
Pictorial Interlude – The wonders of China by little Wasp
Your host's brother is currently on an extended cycling tour from Thailand (where he has worked for the last 4 years) into rural China and probably beyond knowing him. Having read his cycling blog many times, I wanted to highlight some of the many wonderful phtographs...
If you are determined to announce your birthday party on Facebook then at least make it private.
I wonder what the world record is for people attending someone else party via word of mouth or word of Twitter and Facebook? Judging from most news reports it is probably at least around the several hundred mark, although most seem to be smaller affairs such as this...
NASA experimental video from Endeavour’s final launch.
Following on from Nasa's last offering of a full ride on the rocket boosters from launch to splashdown, they have again excelled themselves with the following video of Endeavour's launch made by compositing images from an array of high speed still cameras : Imaging...
Quote of the day.
In amongst the comments at this ZeroHedge article on the continuing protests in Greece, I was amused to find the following : "Man will never be free until the last Banker is strangled with the entrails of the last Politician" The way things are heading in Greece (see...