 
2/8/02 - Lycos is blatantly ageist:
2/8/02 - Metascene's Top Ten
Reasons Why I Have Not Updated My Weblog In A Really, Really Long Time:
"10. Bally's Fitness Center commercials just keep getting sexier
and sexier. How do they do it?
9. I have a girlfriend. Weblog mission accomplished!
8. Crack and heroin in NYC much cheaper than I had anticipated.
..."
31/7/02 - One of those annoying
articles about gun control ("Crime in England out of control, blah,
blah, blah") makes an interesting statement:
"The English Bill of Rights guarantees English citizens "arms
for their defense.""
English Bill of Rights? It seems such a thing did exist, The
Bill of Rights, 1689. Right number 7:
"That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for
their defense suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law."
So, no gun for me then.
29/7/02 - Hurrah for Biff. It's
all in your head:
28/7/02 - Bye bye nubbin.
28/7/02 - The Persistence
Works building in Sheffield. It's up for an award.
Hmmm. Sheffield has generally been pulling
down its concrete buildings.
The power of a good photograph. Persistence Works as seen on the
Better
Public Buildings award site:
Visually striking, wouldn't you say? However in the cold
light of day:
28/7/02 - Those Aussies will do anything
to win a race:
28/7/02 - We're not too big on celebrating our politicians in this country
but there are a few
places around, such as Ramsay MacDonald's study reconstructed at the
Lossiemouth
Fisheries and Community Museum.
The website mentions tourist attractions linked to America's political
leaders, like George Washington's ancestral home at Sulgrave
Manor, but not the statue
of
Abraham
Lincoln in Manchester.
28/7/02 - Yay, road trip in New
Mexico. I don't think I'd pay £882 for a customised itinerary
that didn't actually include the flights or car hire!
28/7/02
- On the BBC News on Thursday they showed some video of the recovery
of abandoned nuclear batteries in Georgia. I wish it was online in full,
you can see about 5 seconds worth 15 seconds into this press
release. If it wasn't so horrifying it'd be laughable, men in
protective clothing (donkey jackets) with recovery equipment (long tongs)
and precise instructions 'after 30 seconds in there, run like hell'.
They don't look dangerous but these things are what dirty
bombs are all about:
28/7/02 - Bitch Magazine's
(s)hitlist,
now in weblog format.
27/7/02 - Excellent 3D
maps of the Peak District.
27/7/02 - I'd always wondered why you can't actually see Lake
Okeechobee. It seems it's so polluted that it's not too pretty anyway:
"There are no longer any true "lakeside towns" around Okeechobee.
Like an interstate slicing a neighborhood in two, the dike has cut them
off from the 730-square-mile lake for good...
"It's what we planners would call a "visual access problem,' " Palm
Beach County planner Vicki Silver says dryly. "I've always thought it had
the potential for marketing as "Florida's Lost Sea.' ""
27/7/02 - Maize mazes, government
subsidy in action. This one
is the closest to me, Cawthorne
near Barnsley. |
