Moist and muggy at the Castle this morn, just got back from
Tesco on the stale bread, gruel and pussy food run-the place was absolutely
heaving (before seven of the am) with lunatics grabbing everything in sight and
filling up two or three trolleys, and they will be open again just after
Crimbo.
As our beloved Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club
Coalition is on its Crimbo hols there is no one to take the piss out of so a truncated
post this ‘two sleeps’ to go morn.
So a bit of science to start with.
Electronic that is not the starchy kind; they have created a
circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the release of liquid metal
which restores conductivity.
The process takes less than the blink of an eye to bring the
circuit back to use.
The researchers said that their work could eventually lead
to longer-lasting gadgets as well as solving one of the big problems of
interplanetary travel.
The work was carried out by a team of scientists and
engineers at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is published in the
journal Advanced Materials.
I hope they solder on with it.....
And:
Sony has unveiled a
paper-powered battery prototype in Japan.
The technology
generates electricity by turning shredded paper into sugar which in turn is
used as fuel.
If brought to
market, the innovation could allow the public to top up the power of their
mobile devices using waste material.
The Japanese
electronics giant showed off its invention at the Eco-Products exhibition in
Tokyo last week.
Employees invited
children to drop piece of paper and cardboard into a liquid made up of water
and enzymes, and then to shake it. The equipment was connected to a small fan which
began spinning a few minutes later.
The process works
by using the enzyme cellulase to decompose the materials into glucose sugar.
These were then combined with oxygen and further enzymes which turned the
material into electrons and hydrogen ions.
The electrons were
used by the battery to generate electricity, water and the acid gluconolactone,
which is commonly used in cosmetics, were created as by-products.
Finally found a use for all the junk mail that vomits
through the portcullis.
Groin Ball
is a game that supposedly originated in Japan, is played by men, and obviously
involves the hitting of man veg.
Two teams
involved in a game of Groin Ball each consist of two players – a ball thrower and a target player. The
target players of each team face each other, holding on to the other’s
shoulders. Their feet need to be shoulder-width apart, all through the game. A
supply of tennis balls is provided to each of the throwers, who have to hurl
them between the legs of the target players, aiming of course, at the groin.
The balls hit the ground and then bounce up to smash into the groin of the
opposing target player.
Sounds like
a load of old bollocks to me……
The excitement is growing for the wondrous event to take
place next year, no not the overpriced Olympics but the first ever World
Watching Paint Dry Championships:
A spokesman for the organisers
LocalTraders.com said: 'We’ve all heard the phrase, "I’d rather watch
paint dry" and so we have decided the time has come to give people the
chance to do so, for as long as they can bear.
'You don’t need to be physically
fit or participate in a vigorous training regime, what’s more important is
mental strength, concentration and endurance.
'Previous paint-watching
experience isn’t essential, but a bit of practice might help prepare
contestants for the mammoth task ahead of them.'
Watching paint dry on a mammoth; that does sound
exciting....anyway if the idea of watching dulux harden floats your boat you can
sign up Here.
A west Florida
community is spending $3,800 in tax dollars to entice naked Germans to spend
their summer vacations there.
The advertising
grant was awarded Tuesday by the Pasco County commission to Pandabare, a local
nudist organization representing 16 resorts, campgrounds and clubs located in
the largely rural county north of Tampa.
The ads, to be
placed in European publications, will promote the county's longstanding
reputation as the nudist capital of America.
"The idea is
to create a Euro-bird season in July and August which are our worst two months
of the year," said Eric Keaton, public communications manager for the
Pasco County tourist development agency. Keaton said nudism contributes to the
county's economy, but he had no figures to quantify its impact.
The first target
market for the ad campaign will be Germany which, according to Pandabare's
application, is "a large and lucrative market whose millions of nudists
are among the world's most prolific travellers." The group also
anticipates a campaign aimed at British nudists.
Roll on next July then....but whatever you do don’t go to
the Pandabare site...
And finally:
An official
body that includes government ministers and a representative of the Academie
Francaise, the eminent French language institution, issued a new set of rules
to simplify the spellings of many words, either to bring them in line with
pronunciation or to eliminate exceptions.
The changes
were made in 1990 — but French media are just getting wind of them.
For
example, "aout" (August) drops the pointy circumflex accent over the
"u''. "Baby-sitter" gets Frenchified into
"babysitteur." Bonhomie, which has come into English with that spelling,
becomes bonhommie — to reflect its root "homme" (man).
Both the
new and old spellings remain acceptable, but the new ones are supposed to be
taught in schools, so they will eventually — in theory — replace the old.
Unfortunately few people seem to know about them, many are opposed, and most school
texts don't use the new spellings. Even the Academie Francaise itself has
chosen to include only some of the new spellings at the end of its dictionary —
explaining that it would like to wait it out and see which spellings are
adopted in general usage before giving its official blessing.
When
television stations became aware of the "new" rules last month, they
sent reporters out into the streets to test the French. Very few identified the
new spellings as the correct ones — they all looked so strange! — Though
frequent, significant hesitations underscored how difficult even the French
find it to spell their own words.
I have enough trouble with English spelling, vive la coquilles.
That’s it: I’m orf to update my login
And today’s thought:
Angus
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