Whilst our own agriculture secretary may be planning to convert the UK to GM food : At present no GM crops are commercially grown in the UK, and the previous Labour government was nervous of promoting GM foods because of fear of a renewed public backlash against...
Black boxes for cars?
Whilst roaming around on the BBC website, the following article caught my attention (emphasis mine) : Toyota inquiry implies driver error A preliminary investigation into accidents involving Toyota cars has suggested driver error may have played a part in many of the...
Grow your own veg!
Just when you start to think you have seen it all, along comes one of those wtf style stories : Man grows pea plant inside lung A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his...
Yet more BBC bollocks
I read the BBC News website occasionally and, more often than not, find my blood pressure on the increase due to the complete lack of journalism on display in many of their stories. To illustrate my point, I have chosen the following story on speed cameras in Oxford :...
Quote for the day.
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. Abraham Maslow
Zombies in London!
Just spotted on the BBC News website, it would appear that police are dealing with a zombie outbreak in London : I hope they catch him soon (and get rid of whichever work-experience mong wrote that headline!) As an aside, the woman in the upper picture (Carole White -...
Taxing matters.
A news article today on the EU looking to levy taxes directly to raise income rather than through the current method of a levy per country raised my interest in EU finances enough to have a look at the current funding measures. Firstly, the news itself. Doug Carswell...
Musical Interlude – Isis Syndic Calls
Depression reigns I'm afraid so have a little music while I kick myself some more for inspiration. _
Charlies!
Yes its a euphemism from the following Daily Mash article which, as ever, had me in stitches. And since it's Friday, I thought I would share : ANNA CHAPMAN, the suspected Russian spy, also has a cracking set of charlies, the FBI confirmed last night. US investigators...
The return of Chernobyl
While fires rage all over Russia, it would seem that there is an increasing possibility of radioactive contamination being spread around once more as the fires come close to areas of contaminated forest on the borders of Ukraine. From econotwist : The Russian...