I see that India's recently launched Aakash is the world's
cheapest touch-screen tablet computer - with an off-the-shelf price of about
$60.
You gets what you pays for
Allegedly the Defence Secretary had personally asked a City
financier to bankroll his unofficial adviser.
Foxy Liam announced that he was resigning after detailed
disclosures showed Mr Werritty’s activities were funded by companies and
individuals that potentially stood to benefit from Government decisions.
Within an hour of Dr Fox stepping down, the venture
capitalist Jon Moulton, who provided money for Mr Werritty, said the Defence
Secretary had asked him to give cash to his friend’s firm. It is understood
that an investigation into Dr Fox’s dealings with Mr Werritty by Sir Gus
O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, had concluded that his position was
untenable.
Better late than never, but I look forward to seeing Sir/Dr
Liam Fox in the Lords next year.....
The end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil
companies are prepared to admit.
The assessment, based on officially reported figures, has
once again pushed back the estimate of when the world will run dry.
However, scientists led by the London-based Oil Depletion
Analysis Centre, say that global production of oil is set to peak in the next
four years before entering a steepening decline which will have massive
consequences for the world economy and the way that we live our lives.
According to "peak oil" theory our consumption of
oil will catch, then outstrip our discovery of new reserves and we will begin
to deplete known reserves.
BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, published
yesterday, appears to show that the world still has enough "proven"
reserves to provide 40 years of consumption at current rates.
Well; oil be buggered.......
Colorado officials have disqualified the grand champion goat
from this year's State Fair because they say it tested positive for an
unapproved drug.
The Pueblo Chieftain reported Friday (http://bit.ly/r2l4oQ) that a second goat
entered by another child from the same family also was disqualified for the
same drug.
Susan Weinroth of Sedalia says the family got a letter from
the attorney general's office saying her family's goats tested positive for a
feed additive approved for swine but not goats.
She suspects the food may have been tampered with and says
the family reported their suspicions to officials. She says the family will
appeal.
Disqualification means her daughter and son can't collect
their earnings from the sale of the goats, $5,500 for the champion and $1,300
for the other.
Dopey pair.....
One in six cell phones in Britain may be contaminated with faecal matter that can spread E. coli, likely because so many people don't wash their hands properly after using the toilet, a new study contends.
The findings also suggest that many people lie about their hygiene habits, according to the researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary, University of London.
The study authors went to 12 cities and collected 390 samples from the cell phones and hands of volunteers, who were also asked about their hand-washing habits.
Ninety-five percent of the participants told the researchers that they washed their hands with soap and water where possible. However, lab tests revealed that 92 percent of phones and 82 percent of hands had bacteria on them. The researchers also found that 16 percent of hands and 16 percent of cell phones harboured E. coli bacteria, which is found in faeces and can cause serious illness.
The study was released to coincide with Global Handwashing Day on Oct. 15.
Moral- never borrow someone else’s Mobile....
A mechanic was the one doing the surgery at an Ohio animal
facility when a woman drove in with a cat stuck behind her minivan's dashboard.
WBNS-TV reports the mechanic had to take apart the dash
during a three-hour rescue operation Thursday in the Columbus suburb of
Hilliard.
Driver Nehal Dhruve says she hit the cat with her van and
decided to take it to the local humane society. The brown and black cat
wouldn't stay on the van's seat but instead hopped down and climbed up under
the dashboard.
Mechanic Daryl McKay cut his hands trying to free the
feline, so an animal control staffer with smaller hands took over and pulled it
out.
Dhruve says she now wants to adopt the cat.
After it has paid for the work.......
And finally:
Construction
workers who recreated a classic photo by posing on a girder 800ft above London
may be fired for their stunt, the photographer claims.
Mick Crompton persuaded 11 of his friends to pose on the
48th floor of the Heron Tower with newspapers, doughnuts and a can of cider.
He hoped to recreate the famous 1930s image of steel workers
on a lunch break as they built the RCA Building at New York's Rockefeller Centre.
But bosses are said to have taken exception to the
61-year-old's artistic efforts and have now warned the 'models' they could face
disciplinary action.
It is claimed the workers breached health and safety rules
by sitting sideways on the beam rather than straddling it.
Ah; the old Elfandsafety straddling ploy.....
That’s it: I’m orf to stock
up on Nanotubes.
And today’s thought: If everything is relative . . . what is
everything else?
Angus
