![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The Blood is The Life 15-02-2013
Friday, February 15th, 2013 09:00 am- Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition
interesting and mostly convincing although there's some amusing jousting in the comments
- [1302.1886] Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts
Science!
- A Most Peculiar Test Drive | Blog | Tesla Motors
Dear journalists: if you're going to lie about the performance and behaviour of electric cars, don't do it on one where they are logging everything you do.
- BBC News - Eastleigh by-election candidate list
My first thought on reading this list was "Poor Dave Sutch must be spinning in his grave when he sees what has become of his beloved party". My second thought was to wonder if they'd let me sign up for the Beer Baccy and Crumpet party...
- Letter in the Grauniad from a paramedic to a banker
"We take home in a gruelling year of real blood, sweat and tears what Stephen Hester earns in six days. I wish that those who earn such sums would realise that their renumeration is not right. Perhaps they should not apply terms to themselves like "I have one of the hardest jobs in the world" (Fred the Shred) until they see what others do on a fraction of their wage."
- Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more: Caebrwyn Arrested, Part Two
Whenever Calderdale council do something that annoys me, I go look at this and think "well, it could be worse, I could be in Carmarthenshire"
- The Institute For Fiscal Studies - Better options exist to help low earners than 10p tax rate
"To have observed lower starting rates of tax being introduced and abolished by governments of both complexions over the last three decades and then to propose the same thing again suggests a remarkable failure to learn from history."
- What ARE we frightened of David?
On David Treddinick, the MP for HOlland & Barrett, being elected to the science and technology committee FFS
- Valentine's tips: How to woo a scientist | Dean Burnett | Science | guardian.co.uk
"If you are speaking to scientist, it is guaranteed that they will be a fan of Star Wars, Star Trek or Doctor Who. However, they will only be a fan of one of these, mentioning the wrong one will result in the conversation being immediately terminated." - this is why I never made it in science. I like TWO of those :(
- Letter to the Leader - A Response
Made my skin crawl, this did.
- BBC Radio 4 Extra - Newsjack - Tips for writers
Newsjack is starting a new series and they accept material from ANYONE. Why not give it a go?
- BBC - Writersroom - The Show What You Wrote
Another Open Access comedy show from the BBC for you to write for.
- Naked Rambler supports Lib Dems in by-election (From Daily Echo)
LOL bless him
