BBC News: Rich 'must pay to save nature' [23-May-03] Look, I'm sorry, I'd really love to help—but I honestly don't think I can afford it. And, besides, why are these charity cases always picking on me?
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Who Would Do Di?
Sky News: Butler: I Doubt Accident [23-May-03] …[Royal Butler Paul] Burrell has also dismissed claims that [Princess] Diana was pregnant when she died or that she had taken cocaine. "Her body was an absolute temple, she would not put anything into her body that was foreign," he said. And as to the cocaine charge…
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National Geographic: Tall As a Deer, Huge U.K. Bird Staging a Comeback [06-May-03] …As tall as a deer and weighing up to 45 pounds (20 kilograms)—equivalent to over two wild turkeys—the great bustard is set to return to its old stomping ground. As tall as a deer, eh? Presumably, its beak is as long as… Continue reading Untitled
Human Guinea Pigs
From Of Moths and Men by Judith Hooper: …The third of the great population geneticists, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, was the brilliant, idiosyncratic, polymath son of the prominent Oxford physiologist John Sanderson Haldane. As a teenager he took up the breeding of guinea pigs with his sister Naomi… Yes, I reckon that counts as fairly… Continue reading Human Guinea Pigs
Born to Pun
BBC: Springsteen gig gets go-ahead [09-May-03] Bruce Springsteen's first UK concert for 10 years will take place after a court dismissed protests from residents living near the venue in Manchester… [Trafford Magistrates Court said,] "[W]e have given a great deal of consideration to the profile of this particular artist and the maturity of the support… Continue reading Born to Pun
American Life / British Ale
I heard it with my own ears on The Jonathan Ross Show last night: Madonna: Timothy Taylor: it's the best. That's right, honorary Brit, Mrs Ritchie, likes warm beer. And not just any old warm beer—Madge has singled out the very best of the bunch: Timothy Taylor Championship Beers. Not bad for someone from the… Continue reading American Life / British Ale
Fairest of them all
Mirror Project
A mere scratch
BBC: Trapped climber amputates own arm [03-May-03] A US rock climber used a penknife to amputate his own arm and escape to safety after a boulder pinned him down for five days in a remote part of the western state of Utah… Officials said that his condition was serious but that he would fully recover.… Continue reading A mere scratch
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Daily Telegraph: Great physicists 'had Asperger's' [01-May-03] No they didn't; they just used autistic licence.
It begins
The first drop of rain in yonks, and I spot my first slug of the season. Let the slug slinging commence.