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Alex sent me this story from news.bbc.co.uk.

An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents’ £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he’ll have to scrub it off when he gets back from travelling.

Amusing but I have some questions. How did his parents know it was there for a year? How did they know that it was there son who drew it? Perhaps he ‘fessed-up to the crime?

Come on Aunt Beeb, give us answers!

True story. Last week, my MacBook (April 2008 model) started making a weird sound like oars sploshing though water. I started shutting down apps to try and find the culprit but even after closing down all but Finder and Quicksilver, the sound continued. This was not a mechanical sound, it was comming from the speakers. Googling did not uncover any clues and it was all very troubling until I rebooted and happily carried on about my business.

Update: 9th March - It started doing it again and I know that I did something wierd involving closing apps just as it started sploshing… Now if I could just remember what is was that I did, it would make a great party trick

Looks like Heineken are changing their bottle shape in the UK to have less neck are more - to use the technical term - fat bit. I imagine this means they can get greater volumes of beer into a plane and so reduce the number of flights and concomitent fuel consumption needed to transport.

The next logical step would seam to be hexagonal bottles or some other nicely tesselating shape?

The next time you are tempted to open an email that you were not expecting that urges you to forward a message, click a link or do pretty much anything… Take a look at snopes.com. It is an urban-legend investigation site that rates as true, false or unverified such titilating claims as: ‘Up in arms about Panty Raider video game’ (true); ‘Walmart selling globes with Isreal labelled Palestine’ (false); ‘Help needed to identify an amnesic tsunami victim’ (false). I would not take the results as the gospel truth but it is a very handy resource. The Inboxer-rebellion section is pretty interesting to read. Especially the scams that are supposedly genuin.

I did a little bit more looking into these claims that green house gasses are likely not responsible for the alarming increases in sea temperature and whilst not conclusive, they are looking like a bag if sh*t.

The artical I pointed towards in the previous post did not provide details of the citations. I did some looking around and found this artical poo-pooing work from ‘Easterbrook’ in 1995. Not sure how many ‘Easterbrooks’ are working in climatology but I would bet it is few.

So, without actually looking at the data, I guess we are screwed.

I have just come to terms with the fact that the human race is going to take one hell of a battering due to some catastrophic climate shift and the ensuing food/water/energy shifts when I heard about this blog posting on No Agenda. I need to get back to the original sources and enlist some help from my sister but the jist is that something called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation is now gearing us up for 30 years of cooling and does an excellent job of predicting past temperatures in the absent of green house gas data as a predictor.

I am not being sucked in by this people who are clearly in denial…   I am not being sucked in by this people who are clearly in denial…

Did you know that according to the CIA, the US has an external debt of about 12 trillion USD? Did you also know that the UK has an external debt of about 10 trillion USD??? Nice one Gordon!

Anyway, check out the CIA world fact book. It is amazing! They have a bunch of countries ranked by various measures of population, economics, communications, millitary, you name it.

You may not want to know this about me but I have been found asleep with my eyes slightly open. I read in a trivia book that the medical term for this is lagophthalmos. There are various causes that include botched cosmetic surgery, thyroid diseases and alcohol intoxication.

I can’t see what the fuss is all about. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were doing far more obscene publications in the seventies… Admitedly not on morning radio…

Update
It seems the Mail on Sunday have worked their magic. There were two complaints to the BBC in the week after the show was broadcast. Then the Mail published a piece stating that Andrew Sachs had been upset by the calls and over 38000 complaints poured in.

I saw this guy on a UK TV show with Raymond Blanc. From this angle, all I can think of is boiled eggs…