Apparently, today is International Polar Bear Day. Which is all fine and dandy, of course, but I want to know what’s so special about international polar bears? What about the humble national polar bear?
Is it only the globe-trotting, citizen-of-the-world type of polar bear who merit a celebratory day? It seems a tad unfair.
Here’s some picture […]
An excellent link for you. Upload a photo of yourself and MyHeritage.com’s fancy facial recognition software will process your image and tell you which celebrity you most resemble!
Apparently I most resemble Art Garfunkel (58% likeness).
Then Mark Hamill (54% likeness).
Then, er, Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese Prime Minister (53% likeness).
Hm. I’m beginning to suspect this “advanced facial […]
Ah, my life is chock-a-block with excitement. Today I did the following:
vacuumed;
dusted;
polished;
cleaned the bathroom;
cleaned the kitchen (including the cooker!);
cleaned the doors of those greasy fingerprints left behind by my uncivilised habit of pushing them open without using the doorhandle;
cleaned assorted skirting boards;
polished my shoes;
washed the bathmats;
changed the sheets on my bed;
replaced the strings on my […]
From the department of interesting facts: The UK Government does not collect statistics on dismemberment. ref
I bet you didn’t know that.
I think we need more poets in government. I’ve been trying to read a number of government documents lately and use of English is rather poor, to say the least.
The Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs sponsors something called the Darwin Initiative. It involves giving grants to small conservation projects around the world, […]
It is Valentine’s Day tomorrow. I am amazed at how a minor, if rather sweet, saint’s day has suddenly exploded into a huge commercial event. I think I first noticed the shops really plugging valentine products last year, but in 2006 it’s gone mad. Every shop in town has devoted swathes of floor space to […]
From the Guardian of 1826, complaining about the driving of the horse-drawn London Mail Cart:
“The speed at which it was going could not, we think, be less than fourteen or fifteen miles per hour, which, in a crowded thoroughfare, is absolutely intolerable.”
Quite right. Lord forfend that traffic, be it motorised or otherwise, should reach such […]
It seems the Islamic world is in uproar because last September a Danish newspaper printed some cartoon caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. For goodness sake, they’re just cartoons. Some people take their religion far too seriously - the root of many a problem in this world.
I understand that images of the prophet are banned […]
As it has been a aeon since I last posted, I find that I must take refuge in a meme. This one has fixty-six questions, which is simply ridiculous. But what can a poor man do?
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Nervous habits: You can tell when I’m nervous, because I talk unbidden. Whereas normally I never talk at all, in […]