Posted on September 18th, 2011 by James Higham
There is much negative reaction to “typecasting” or “stereotyping” and this blog has lost readers thereby but unfortunately, the blog must pursue truth and the truth is that “types” do exist, whether in stereo or mono. Women are quick to mention their multitasking abilities and virtually everyone speaks of woman’s nurturing. Men are more competent [...]
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Posted on September 18th, 2011 by James Higham
As all you vexillologists know, the study of flags includes maritime flags and there are some strange traditions which can still catch out the unwary. First up [using many Wiki articles to help with the text here] there are civil, state and naval ensigns at sea and you’d best be careful which you use. For [...]
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Filed under: History & Culture, Leisure, travel & sport
Posted on September 18th, 2011 by James Higham
Getting paid hundreds of thousands of pounds of licence payers’ money to play records on a radio station whose listenership could fit in your average village hall does wonders for the economy. [Blognor Regis]
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Posted on September 18th, 2011 by James Higham
By spinal curvature, this post refers to normal kyphosis through aging rather than scoliosis and other abnormal conditions. This pdf PostureTrainingHrysomallis addresses many of the issues concerning kyphosis and concludes that resistance exercising of the muscles of the back and neck plus the lumbar and abdomen have only limited effect because:
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Posted on September 17th, 2011 by James Higham
What do all these songs have in common?
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Posted on September 17th, 2011 by JD
So they can’t seem to find the Higgs Boson Perhaps it doesn’t exist. Research in physics has become ever more fragmented into narrow fields with each researcher chasing after their own particular theory. There seem to be more theories than physicists! In this book Lee Smolinbelieves that physicists are making the mistake of searching for [...]
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Filed under: Earth and cosmos, JD, Technology & ideas
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by JD
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by James Higham
Laze and Gem This will be the last post until Sunday from me [there might be some posts from JD or Chuckles but I don't know]. The site will be erratically checked by either myself or someone else for any legit comments which were spammed. It really will be erratic though. Basically, there’s a three [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2011 by JD
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Posted on September 16th, 2011 by James Higham
History is only as good as the breadth of reading of the people who wrote it. The victors might write the history at the time but later reflection by historians is only half dependent on that. If he’s any good, he digs out little known material which takes a contrary line and then he has [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2011 by Chuckles
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by James Higham
The DRACO antiviral approach created by MIT researchers has the potential to develop into an all-purpose antiviral prophylactic and early-stage treatment. This development is a timely reminder that while microbes can be shifty and clever in avoiding antimicrobial medicines, humans have incredibly creative and resourceful brains — if they would only use them. Now, in [...]
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Filed under: Politics & economics, Society & human issues
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by James Higham
Conventional wisdom says vertical stemposts are a no-no on a yacht [fine for a dinghy] but for traditional British Isles/Dutch/Scandinavian craft, they are a necessity because you have to get the maximum waterline length afore the mast, especially with luggers [pictured below]. They often feature canoe sterns as well, to meet following seas.
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Filed under: History & Culture, Leisure, travel & sport, Technology & ideas
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by Chuckles
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by Chuckles
A dying grandmother tells her granddaughter, “I want to leave you my farm. That includes the villa, the tractor, and other equipment, the farmhouse and $22,398,750.78 in cash.” The granddaughter, absolutely floored and about to become rich, says, “Oh Granny, you are SO generous! I didn’t even know you had a farm. Where is it?” [...]
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Filed under: Chuckles, Humour, Society & human issues, Technology & ideas
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by James Higham
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by JD
A beautiful story in The Scotsman- THE mystery of who has been delivering hand-crafted artworks to the city’s cultural hotspots has deepened after an intricate model of a nesting dragon was found in the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Carved from an Ian Rankin novel, they don’t know how long it might have been sitting there unnoticed [...]
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Filed under: Art, JD, Literature & performing arts, Society & human issues
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by James Higham
That one at the Register on acceptable sites to communicate through: Twitter is fine for civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions but Facebook is strictly banned, the Minister for Employment Chris Grayling ruled in a response to a written question by Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson. As well as tweeting, Work & [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2011 by James Higham
Did you see it [click pic]? Bit unsure about all the white I see about.
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Posted on September 15th, 2011 by James Higham
How accurate is he? Someone called Lou Minatti [never heard of him or of Celente] said Celente was full of c**p, a media whore who only got things right because he extrapolated trends already underway.
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Filed under: History & Culture, Society & human issues
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by James Higham
Just a quick one. The spam problem seems to have been sorted – excessively so – but mine host brought up an interesting one today: “You might be getting no spam but how do you know that it’s not deleting genuine comments?” Had nothing to do with it always spamming him, did it, eh? Hmmm [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2011 by James Higham
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by James Higham
Let’s have some good cheer:
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Posted on September 14th, 2011 by James Higham
He began well on this PoMo excrescence [of which there are no examples in this post]: Postmodernism glimmered even at the height of the modernist period. In the late 1950s, William Burroughs, stoned on marijuana and opiates in Tangiers, was cutting up and pasting texts randomly to produce his first masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Tristan Tzara, [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2011 by Chuckles
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by James Higham
I use three main sources to get a line on what’s going on. Jesse: The pampered princes on Bloomberg today suggested there was selling of gold to ‘raise capital’ today, and that selling was being done by ‘central banks.’ Perhaps they need to meet some margin calls. lol. You just can’t make this stuff up.
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Posted on September 14th, 2011 by James Higham
A policeman throws stones at protesters during a victory rally in Jammu, India, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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Posted on September 14th, 2011 by James Higham
There’s no discouragement Shall make them once relent Their first avowed intent, To be good rednecks. [H/T Chuckles]
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Posted on September 14th, 2011 by JD
If that’s too small for you to read, it says- Just £45 for a whole year’s subscription – that’s less than £4 a month for the UK’s newest quality newspaper. We’ll send you subscription vouchers which you can exchange for your copy of i newspaper at any retailer. But why would I send you £45 [...]
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Filed under: Diversions, JD
Posted on September 13th, 2011 by James Higham
AK Haart: In my chemistry-set days my main interests were discovering the most exciting explosive mixtures and finding out what gave the most violent and lurid flames when ignited. I made gunpowder of course, who hasn’t? But I also made mixtures of my own, usually with a good pinch of iron filings to get plenty [...]
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