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Saturday 15 November 2008

British insects and invertebrates in startling decline

The Independent reports that some species of insects and invertebrates have declined by more than 80% in recent decades.

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Filed under: Wildlife — GS @ 4:44 am

Ugly utility boxes in the street are disguised by pasting photographs

The urban art of Joshua Callaghan: the man who can turn street objects invisible.


Filed under: Fun,Photography — GS @ 3:52 am
Friday 14 November 2008

Comedian Jim Bowen uses 1,600-year-old jokes in act

‘An ancestor of Monty Python’s famous Dead Parrot comedy sketch has been found in a joke book dating back to Greece in the 4th Century…

[The ancient gags] have been published into a multimedia online e-book, which features video of veteran comic Jim Bowen bringing the old jokes back to life in front of a 21st Century audience.’

BBC

One of the old jokes:

‘Someone needled a well-known wit: “I had your wife, without paying a penny”. He replied: “It’s my duty as a husband to couple with such a monstrosity. What made you do it?”‘


Filed under: Fun,History — GS @ 4:05 am
Wednesday 12 November 2008

Flowplayer version 3 loses the plot

For a while I’ve been using a nice free Flash web player on my site: Flowplayer. With a bit of fairly simple HTML code, magical things could happen.

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Filed under: Net & technology — GS @ 9:34 am

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