Googlewhack!! (except not, see update)
I just received some Truly Excellent News.
I. Am. A. Googlewhack!
Fan-bloody-tastic. Does this mean I now have to create a googlewhack chain of 10 people? Ooh, I have to go find some myself, now.
UPDATE: As a Joinee has kindly pointed out, both words have to be underlined for it to be a proper googlewhack. I'm now a sad person, and shall go sob in a corner.
I'm back.
I'm not taking this lying down. I'm going to campaign for the addition of 'muppetry' to dictionary.com.
UPDATE 2: Here's a screenshot, just to save it for posterity:
Make Poverty History
The Make Poverty History campaign is extremely important. Poverty isn't necessary. We have enough food and drugs to go around. People needn't starve to death any more. It's fixable, and this year we can do a huge amount to achieve its eradication. Gordon Brown is working on removing the debts third-world countries are paying, the UK is hosting the G8 summit this July and Tony Blair has been seen wearing a Make Poverty History white band. If enough people make their voices heard than something can genuinely be done, and that's what the Make Poverty History campaign is all about. I know you've heard it all before, but a campaign of this magnitude is almost unprecedented. This is the text of the latest mailing list email:
Hi,
Tonight Make Poverty History is going to make television history.
At 19.58, across almost every TV channel, a short film featuring Brad Pitt, Bono, Cameron Diaz and many more famous faces, will show exactly why the opportunity we have this year to bring an end to poverty shouldn't be wasted.
It's called "Click" because in about the time it takes for you to click your fingers a person dies of extreme poverty. Dies, often, for want of medicine that you or I could buy over a counter at any chemist.
Do tell everyone you can to watch the launch of "Click" tonight - it's a really remarkable film. If you can't get to a TV you will be able to see it here after 20.00. Please forward this mail on to a group of your friends, and ask them to join us at www.makepovertyhistory.org too.
Thanks for your support. Together we really can make poverty history.
Bob
Please ask people to watch. If they haven't heard of the campaign, this will tell them what they need to know. Also visit the website where you can email Tony Blair and your local MP directly. Please help jump-start what would be humanity's most extraordinary achievement. Thank you.
News Snippets, with a Breaking Story
Didn't want to go to bed without a short news wrapup, as there are a good few interesting items today. Firstly, bloody brilliant work by Jamie Oliver has resulted in huge amounts of government money. Yeah, it shouldn't take a tv show, but hey, it's happened, and that's cool.
Also, the BBC today commissioned a new series of Doctor Who, after only one episode of the show. Great! Oh, but breaking news is that Christopher Eccleston is to step down as the Doctor! That's only been announced in the last minute, and I don't know what's going on as yet...
The BBC also today rejected complaints about the Jerry Springer Opera, which regular readers will know I entirely support 
SciScoop Revival?
We're trying to save SciScoop, and I think we may just manage it. All we need are volunteers who are willing to submit one science related story per week. It's easy to do; it can be as simple as paraphrasing a press release in a couple of paragraphs. I'm in, as are a few others. If we can get enough people so that there are two stories per day, we think the site can only go from strength to strength. So please, if you think you fit the bill, do head over there. Thanks.
Tony Blair on Ant & Dec
According to "Alastair Campbell" this weekend's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will feature Little Ant and Dec interviewing Tony Blair. Should be quite interesting...Pity it clashes with Doctor Who, though.
Probably a Gamut
I had a rather fraught day yesterday, in hindsight. Here're the various states I went through:
- I was very happy when something rather pleasant happened. Don't want to put it on the internet quite yet, but hopefully next week (nothing romantic, in case you were wondering )
- Cross when somebody was snotty with me for no good reason.
- Lonely in the afternoon.
- Sad when I found out SciScoop was shutting down.
- Reminiscent when I was browsing Friends Reunited
- Disappointed when I wasted an hour I could have spent working on Maths
- Excited while watching 24. It was so nerve wracking I had to stand up and walk around the room!
- Quizzical and surprised while watching CSI.
- Worried about finishing work off today (went ok in the end)
So, yes. That was a busy day.
Yeek
Oh. Oh dear. Now I have to think for a bit. It's a nice thing to think about, but oh. Oh dear. How am I going to concentrate on mechanics now? Oh dear.
Friends Reuniting
I've only ventured onto FriendsReunited a couple of times before, and I don't really know what drew me there today. I have no interest at all in letting most people from school have my contact details in an easily accessible place! Still, I found myself looking around the site, and it turned out that they list colleges as well as schools. I enjoyed college very much, so created an account and added myself to the SSFC list. Twas most interesting looking at everybody else's profiles. People I knew are engaged to people with strange names, married, studying, working in far-flung locations...They're all so grown up!
Now that I've got to the end of that paragraph, I realise that I have no point to make. So I shall fallacially (bloody well should be a word) conclude with:
And so, I'll give her the biscuits back on the condition she never speaks of this again.
SciScoop Shutting Down
One of my favourite science news websites, SciScoop, is for sale. It's a community-run site (I've had a couple of articles published) but by far the major contributor is the site owner, rickyjames. He unfortunately no longer has the time to continue contributing, and has decided to move on. It's sad 
If anybody knows anyone they think could be interested in taking over, please do let them know.
Hello!
Hey, thanks for coming! I'm Andrew, and this is where my headthinks come to breed. They often meander around humanism and photography, but they're flighty and you can't trust them, so anything is possible.
Do feel free to email me - I get lonely:
Your hair looks swish, by the way - have you done something new?
Recent Comments
- vicky: going up this weekend having done all the welsh peaks except 4 snowdon, cant wait
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: what, how can u live in the 21 c and say that, probably a sexist thing
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: da iawn laura, cant believe what im hearing, all this fuss, anyway love the site, and i agree, normal people who swear and curse clomb mountains cos we live in the...
on Climbing Snowdon. - Andrew: Did a few quick test shots to check the light levels, then balanced the camera on the arm of a bench, set it for a 20s exposure and hoped for the best
on ISS. - lynsey: Wow, how did you take that photograph?
on ISS.
