Category: Tim

Not my usual reading, but these two articles by Peter Osborne in the Daily Mail caught my attention:- Apocalypse Now?: New world order could have devastating implications for Western nations …. “The British economy is in the same position as the Texan coast earlier this month as Hurricane Ike approached — apparently calm, with life…

I think a rainbow has to count as amazing, but so too do thunder clouds and lightning. I used to live in Stuttgart, my flat was high up on one of the hills overlooking the city and I have a vivid memory of watching a dramatic thunder storm pass over the city, lightning striking down…

Maybe it is just me… Jax doesn’t think it is at all odd, anyway.

Crookes Radiometer Never have quite “got” this improbable little thing. Pretty though, I used to have one on my bedroom windowsill when I was at school, used to go mad in direct sunlight.

Newton’s Cradle No matter how often I see one of these, they still fascinate me.

They really, really don’t get it. One of the crassest and most totally idiotic examples of mindless web design that I have ever seen. http://www.co-op.ac.uk/

A man who chose “Lloyds is pants” as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to “no it’s not” BBC :rofl:

I have just got back from watching the Tinsley Towers, the two large cooling towers by the side of the elevated section of the M1 in Sheffield, being demolished. Tinsley Towers 3am No Tinsley Towers 3:01am The first time I have been to see a demolition. Quite extraordinary.

I was just looking through the Beans Flickr. I found a picture of a woman tied to a dog. Caption Submissions in a comments box please

A couple of posts elsewhere have made me think of some things which I missed, when I had the chance – that is to say, places I didn’t visit, things I didn’t do, when I lived right next to them. These include: Living 4 miles from Sutton Hoo and never going to see it. Living…