ME and Ophelia

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

 
THIS ELECTION THINK ABOUT FREEDOM
Three reasons I'm voting Labour

Sorry I cannot find the link to a report I saw this week that basically said most Americans couldn't give a fig that we have a General Election coming up. Just goes to show the continuing insularity of American thinking and how much more the average Brit is clued up as to what is really going on in the world.

As of today, nothing has arrived in the mail for me to cast my vote. I have been registered as a postal voter for about four years now. So, this morning I phoned the District Council to check the whereabouts of my voting papers. The person on the phone was helpful enough but seemed to have a problem with my address and could not answer my question. She queried my address twice and asked if I had received a card. I said no. She said someone would call me back.

Fifteen minutes later the same person phoned me to say I would receive the papers today or tomorrow. If this is the same process and timing for all postal voters, they sure are cutting it fine. We have a new postman who cannot be relied upon to deliver mail correctly, nevermind pick it up for posting. I can only get mail posted on a Tuesday. The election is on Thursday.

The great Stephen Pollard says Help!

Three reasons to vote Labour
Image: Designed by Anthony Cox at Black Triangle.

Thanks to Stephen for the Three reasons I'm voting Labour.

More on this in Clive Soley's post [who has just retired as a Member of Parliament after twenty-six years of great service].

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Monday, April 25, 2005

 
GOOGLE MAPS
Hit the UK

The supremely cool Google maps is now available for the UK. Seems to be missing some of the US functionality (like Satellite map overlays) but it is still in Beta: http://maps.google.co.uk./

[via Limbicnutrition with thanks]
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Zebra

Zebra

A zebra turns his head during a warm spring day in Amman public park March 28, 2005. Hundreds of school students and families floated to public parks to enjoy the mild weather. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji
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Pope Benedict

Tee hee.

[via Stephen Pollard with thanks]

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Friday, April 22, 2005

 
AMAZON DIRECTORY
Of free MP3 downloads

Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing Blog says Amazon has put together a listing of all the free, no-DRM MP3s you can download from their site, as promos for CDs.

Erin sez: "Amazon actually launched Free Music Downloads in February of 2001. The page mentioned is just the top 200 downloads, there are a lot more available here.

Jesse sez, "I wrote a GreaseMonkey script which make the songs link directly to the MP3."

[via Joi Ito with thanks]
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POPGADGET
Personal tech for women

Super steam oven

See super new steam oven at Popgadget.

Basic specs: 25 litres, 240-240v, 50Hz, 21 menus, functions include steam, grill, roast, bake, defrost and reheat, 850ml water tank, 520 x 490 x 345mm, 20kg.

If you want to contribute a story or a tip to Popgadget, just let them know.

I've bookmarked it along with Limbic. This is one of Limbic's unreal posts. Heh.
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KT401
Tape Kitchen Timer

Tape Kitchen Timer

Tape kitchen timer looks handy. Cannot find if it is available for UK shoppers. Design by Jozeph Forakis. Aluminum. Height 4".

Sold per 6 pieces at kikkerland (USA - trade only). Or individually at Ship the Web.
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GREAT NEW BLOG
C'est la Vie! by GratisGab in Boston

Go read Horlicks for some chuckles - and see what your theory is on First Impressions (mine is in the comments at the post).

[via ChaiTeaLatte with thanks - welcome back Madhu - great see your blog door open again]
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MAHATMA GANDHI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
"The Story of My Experiments With Truth"

Note to self - I'm filing a copy of this - posted today at my Sudan Watch blog - for future reference to remind myself of Jim's important post on VOIP; a new blog I started and deleted; when I almost stopped posting on the Sudan; my plans to order and read Gandhi's autobiography + see Gandhi dvd:

My most favourite blogger Jim Moore (who, sad to say, hasn't blogged much since this great post) is back on track with another brilliant big gun idea.

Here it is, in his latest post at Passion of the Present April 21, titled:

Sudanwatch on the SPLM's offer to help in Darfur..and hey, maybe the Genocide Intervention Fund should raise money for the SPLM/A to intervene in Darfur..

"Ok, here is a really interesting idea, highlighted by Ingrid Jones over at the terrific Sudan Watch blog.

Now combine this with the Genocide Intervention Fund, and we might have something."
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Open Letters to President of Sudan Blog

Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

Here's pinging a note to Jim: Thanks for above post - great - just what I needed. A few days ago, I was on the verge of giving up blogging about Darfur. Posting nearly every day for one year seemed pointless and too disheartening. So many rubbish news reports and propaganda around. Politicians and bloggers don't have much to say. It was sickening seeing Darfur news reports churned out again like a repeat from last year ... shortage of food ... short of funds ... rainy season coming ... janjaweed still attacking. Out of frustration, I experimented with starting up a blog to post "Open Letters to the President of Sudan" in a lateral thinking effort to gain some understanding of what is really going on and why peace is taking so long. I even toyed with the idea of sending President Bashir a copy of Mahatma Gandhi's Autobiography "The Story of My Experiments With Truth" via Amazon.com. But within 24 hours, I deleted the whole thing after realising what a complete waste of time and energy it would be trying to make contact with someone who doesn't even care to understand his own people, nevermind us. I'll email you later.]
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Found on the Internet - source unknown

Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "While abhorring segregation, we shall love the segregationist. This is the only way to create the beloved community."

Over and over, he stressed separating the doer from the deed. He believed this was a crucial element to nonviolent struggle not only because of the moral obligation to love our enemies, but because he knew that part of the "truth-force" that Gandhi taught was to understand that men are neither gods nor devils to be falsely exalted by either praise or scorn. A beloved community relies upon honesty and equality, which are both endangered when anyone is given the powerful and illusive label of "bad guy."
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Warm thanks to Sudan Watch readers

Thank you to Bidisha Banerjee for kindly mentionting my Sudan Watch blog in a post at Slate Magazine April 20 (my birthday, nice surprise thanks) and to the many others who link and email messsages. The Slate post got noticed in Las Vegas.

Hi here to Waveflux too ;)

P.S. Be sure to bookmark Slate.com - it has neat roundups of what bloggers are saying and thinking about. See today's blogs - the latest chatter in cyberspace - Il Cavalieri Rides Again by David Wallace-Wells.

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Monday, April 18, 2005

 
IT'S THIS SIMPLE:
Wind farms the size of London, or safe, clean nuclear plants

A few minutes ago, a dear friend emailed me an opinion piece published in the London Times April 12, 2005. The message accompanying the email says:
"It's this simple: wind farms the size of London, or safe, clean nuclear plants Can we shed the political paranoia about 'saving the world' and focus instead on practical energy?"
The op-ed, authored by Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography in the University of London, is copied here in full for future reference. [Note the Times has categorised it under the heading of Election 2005]

Election 2005

It's this simple: wind farms the size of London, or safe, clean nuclear plants

My big issue by Philip Stott

ELECTION ROOM 2005 is filled with elephants hidden behind the flimsiest of political camouflage. For me, the bull elephant is the need for a practical energy policy for Britain.

On this issue, I am disenfranchised because all three main parties, despite differing degrees of enthusiasm and rhetoric, share the same outlook: an unconvincing belief that “renewable energy” — wave, wind and solar power — is a credible way to solve Britain’s energy problems.

Political correctness is warping energy policy. Predicating policy, through the doomed Kyoto Protocol, on unpredictable environmental concerns is disastrous. It will slow economic growth, dull our competitive edge, deny much-needed energy expansion and expose us to political turmoil overseas. The result will be a Britain in which the lights go out by 2020, if not earlier, while billions of people in the developing world remain energy-starved.

Lord Broers, this year’s Reith lecturer, has given warning that British energy policy makes over-optimistic assumptions about the potential of “renewables”, such as wind. He argues that “all of these energy sources should carry the costs of their overheads with them. If you have wind power, you have to have back-up from gas generation.”

Kenneth J. Fergusson, the president of the Combustion Engineering Association, develops the case, stating that: “Britain should stop subsidising wind-mills (only building them to the extent that they are commercially viable).” He reminds us that “Britain is heading for a crisis in power supplies to which no amount of preferential treatment for renewable energy sources can do more than make a peripheral contribution for decades to come”.

Professor Ian Fells, a world authority, is equally trenchant: “It needs only a breakdown at one big power station and there is a real risk of the supply system becoming fragile because we don’t have the spare generating capacity we used to.”

To replace a 1,000 megawatt (MW) nuclear station supplying just 1/65th of peak demand requires 30 miles of wave machines; or it would need a wind farm that would cover an area equivalent to Inner London, or for solar power, it would require an area half as much again. If we were to try to replace the output of that 1,000MW nuclear power station with bio-oils or biomass fuels, we would have to cover the entire Scottish Highlands with oil-seed rape or turn Wales into a giant willow coppice.

Yet, as Professor Fells reminds us, by 2020, we will have only one nuclear plant operating. Moreover, we will be importing 90 per cent of our gas from countries such as Algeria, Iran, Iraq, and Russia, while we accept nuclear-generated power from France, which is set to reassert its successful nuclear policy (59 plants and expanding).

A sensible energy policy should aim to provide a reliable mix of energy generation to support economic growth, with the least possible dependence on imported fuels from unstable exporting countries.

That means we must recognise the wisdom of the green guru James Lovelock’s brave declaration that, for the mid-term, there is no alternative to nuclear power. As the Royal Society concludes: “In the short to medium term, it is difficult to see how we can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels without the help of nuclear power.”

Nuclear power — which accounts for 17 per cent of the world’s electricity supply — has the safest record of any major form of energy production. The radiation from a nuclear power station is less than that from a large hospital (and there are fewer superbugs, too). China, Finland, France, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan and the US, among others, acknowledge the value of nuclear power for their future. China is planning to build no fewer than 40 nuclear power plants by 2020, while Sweden and France are designing politically enlightened policies for the storage of nuclear waste. Moreover, as Sir David King, the Chief Scientific Adviser, has argued, we must encourage long-term — that’s a 40 to 50-year timeframe — research into nuclear fusion.

In addition, we have to continue to support the efficient use of fossil fuels. On conservative estimates, there are 350 to 500 years of coal reserves in the world, and, with modern technologies, such as gasification, coal is on an exciting road to clean energy.

We must be open about the limitations of “renewables”, including both intermittency of supply and their environmental downsides. Large-scale hydroelectric power necessitates the re-settlement of people, interrupts fish migration and causes loss of habitat. Micro-scale hydroelectric systems become blocked and are able to make only a marginal contribution. Tidal barrages disrupt complex ecosystems. Wind farms kill bird and bat species and despoil rare wilderness.

We need also to be aware of the architectural damage to historic buildings caused by over-enthusiastic schemes for energy efficiency and solar panels, and to carry out more studies into the health problems of heavily insulated houses and offices, such as sick building syndrome. Finally, we need to support realistic work on alternative fuels, including compressed air, hydrogen fuel cells, sodium borohydride and biofuels.

Can we please shed the political paranoia about “saving the world”, and, focus instead on practical energy? The failure of our political parties to be realistic about future energy demand could be catastrophic. I do not want to see the economic success of the UK falter because of “green” whimsy. Drop the cant and energise Britain.

Philip Stott is Emeritus Professor of Biogeography in the University of London

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Sunday, April 17, 2005

 
BIZARRE
Just when you think you've seen it all ...

Couldn't resist sharing this.

Found it at David Aitken's Life's Better Ideas while following some links on the Sudan. One comment says:

'Looks like she's stiched together, like Herman Munster.'

Heh.

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Saturday, April 16, 2005

 
SUDAN SAYS OIL DISCOVERED
In impoverished Darfur

Sorry, been busy over at Congo Watch, Sudan Watch and Passion of the Present. Copy of latest post on the Sudan:

Here is no surprise. But, if true, it is the first time a Sudanese official has confirmed it: an oil field has been discovered in southern Darfur.

Note, southern Darfur is the region where a savage attack on Khor Abeche [which was controlled by the SLM, the main rebel group in Darfur] by 200 militia and a group of 150 people hailing from Niteaga took place April 7, 2005.

By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Published April 16, 2005

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan said Saturday initial oil drilling operations in the troubled Darfur region indicate there is abundant oil in the area.

Sudan Energy Minister Awad al-Jaz told reporters in Khartoum an oil field was found in southern Darfur and it is expected to produce 500,000 barrels of oil per day by August.

Most of the country's oil production comes from oil fields in southern Sudan, where a peace treaty was recently signed between the government and rebels.

According to the accord, 50 percent of oil revenues from the south will go to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement [the former rebel group of south Sudan], while the other half to Khartoum.

The country started exporting oil in August 1999.

Sudan Energy Minister Awad Ahmed Al-Jaz
Photo: Sudan Energy Minister Awad Ahmed Al-Jaz (Sudan Tribune)
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Further reading

July 11, 2004 post - Arab sources say oil discovered in Darfur - Sudan and India sign new pipeline deal.

July 12, 2004 post by Jim Moore re Oil and Darfur.

Dec 4, 2004 post on Oil and Darfur - India signs new pipeline deal - France interested in Uranium and has drilling rights.

Apr 3, 2005 post - Oil found in South Darfur - Oil issues threaten to derail Sudan hopes for peace.

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Saturday, April 09, 2005

 
FINGERS CROSSED FOR POPE FRANCIS ARINZE
Bookmakers say Nigerian, Italian favoured to be pope

News online April 9 says: "Irish bookmakers are making a Nigerian and an Italian co-favorites, at 11-4 odds, to replace John Paul II as the next pope. Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, 72, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and 71-year-old Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, archbishop of Milan, are the leading contenders, according to Irish bookmakers Paddy Power. The bookmakers have been taking bets on the next pope for the past five years."

A Nigerian pope would be perfect to follow in the footsteps of the late great John Paul II. There have been three African popes before, but that was a very long time ago.

Today is sunny, bright and beautiful here by the seaside. But too cold for Ophelia to go out. Watched the Pope's funeral on TV yesterday. Bill writes a great post on his thoughts. The 200 world leaders gathered together at the funeral looked like an insignificant motley crew cut down to size by the grace of the Vatican. I too hoped they would think the thoughts that Bill writes of.

Freiheit und Wissen has a Caption Contest on this photo taken at the funeral. Notice Kofi Annan laughing. Over the past few months, Dr Rice was instrumental with British FM Jack Straw in getting the US and France out of a sticky corner on France's draft UN resolution to refer Sudan to the International Criminal Court. Britain saved the day by taking over the resolution. Conveniently, President Bush has his eyes closed at Chirac's greeting. Sudan was referred to the World's court. Chirac should have kissed the hands of Jack Straw and Tony Blair :)

Condi

Today, we have The Wedding to watch on TV. Good luck to them I say. The world can't have enough love. But Diana will be rolling in her grave. You have to wonder, when the happy couple are snuggled together like an old pair of slippers ... in their ancient castle ... in the pitch dark ... wind whistling....if they think they can hear her haunting them. OooooHeh.
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The Royal Wedding

UPDATE: They both looked great. The two services, music and super tasteful floral arrangements (mainly romantic looking trees and greenery made to look like trees) were exquisite. Family and guests were upbeat and happy, including the Queen who looked super elegant and cuddly. The bride and groom's outfits (and William and Harry's) for the Registry and Windsor Castle Church blessing were simply perfect.

Outside Windsor Registry Office there had been more than a few unkind boos. The band played louder to drown it out. Guest Royals were trucked by two white mini-coaches which worked out well. Camilla's ring is the hugest rock of a diamond one has seen in a long time. Did not see her throwing her posy to anyone. After the church blessing they stood momentarily on the steps for a historic photo to be taken with the Queen and walked up to the waiting crowds at Windsor where they received a warm reception.

All in all a great day they can be proud of. No doubt they will all have a great fun party tonight with champagne flowing. Charles and Camilla sent a signed greetings card and bottle of champers to the couple who were set to marry at the Registry (in a different room though) not long after the Royals.

Apart from Camilla's and the Queen's, the best outfit was worn by one of my favourite actresses, Joanna Lumley. There were some great hats. Tara P-T looked stunning like she had stepped off a catwalk. Camilla's ex and two children were there. Fergie wasn't there but her ex and their two girls were. Princess Anne was there with her two children but I couldn't see her husband, looks like she arrived alone. TV news camera crew outside Windsor church did not do a great job. It was disappointing to watch inside interviewers analysing things while we saw only a small fraction of the 750 guests.

The new in-laws look a lot more easy going and fun than the Spencers. One person in the crowd held up a banner wishing "Chaz + Millie" all the best. The bride and groom are not attending the party. They are flying to Aberdeen for a two week honeymoon at a house bequethed to Charles by his grandmother.

[Photo via Mark Holland at Blognor Regis]
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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
Courtesy New York Times April 9, 2005

"We can be sure that our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the Father's house, that he sees and blesses us. Yes, bless us, Holy Father." - CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER

My understanding is that Cardinal Ratzinger was Pope John Paul II's right hand man, his confidante and aide for written papers. He was the closest person to the Pope for some 20 years, right up until the Pope's death. According to Wikepedia:

The Pope's last message to pilgrims was read out: "Love converts hearts and gives peace," it said. His final hours were marked by an overwhelming number of younger people who kept vigil outside his Vatican apartments. In his last message, specifically to the youth of the world, he said: "I came to you, now it's you who have come to me. I thank you." According to Father Jarek Cielecki, the Pope's last word before death was "Amen"; then he closed his eyes.

Further reading at The Pope Blog: Conclave Edition.
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No Water, No Life

Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, posted the following at AnitaRoddick.com about an amazing Japanese website:

I've come across this amazing website that is almost entirely worldess: it just leads you through a pristine wilderness and shows you, through deft animation, just how pervasive and beautiful and basic water is. Oddly, the site is from a Japanese tobacco and beverage company, but I'm willing to forgive. The site, I think, makes some of the points I made in my book "Troubled Water," only with a kind of visual poetry. Try it out. Click around, click the rectangles, and click inside the scenes. You'll find some meditative beauty there: No Water, No Life presented by JT Beverage World.
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Techie Musings blog

Techie Musings post on how to attract traffic to your website.
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Saddam 'upset' at Kurd's election

Saddam Hussein watched the televised election of Iraq's new president from his jail cell yesterday and was "clearly upset", a senior official said. Full Story at Guardian April 7, 2005.
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Koran scholar: US will cease to exist in 2007

March 29, 2005 Jerusalem Post report excerpt:

"A thorough analysis of the Koran reveals that the US will cease to exist in the year 2007, according to research published by Palestinian scholar Ziad Silwadi.

The study, which has caught the attention of millions of Muslims worldwide, is based on in-depth interpretations of various verses in the Koran. It predicts that the US will be hit by a tsunami larger than that which recently struck southeast Asia."

[via Blogdial]
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Are You Qualified to Stand for Peace?

The following was posted on March 18, 2003, by Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop AnitaRoddick.com:

This test is for your consideration. If you can pass it you are eligible to join the peace movement. This test consists of one multiple-choice question (so you better get it right!) Here's a list of the countries that the U.S. has bombed since the end of World War II, compiled by historian William Blum:

China 1945-46

Korea 1950-53

China 1950-53

Guatemala 1954

Indonesia 1958

Cuba 1959-60

Guatemala 1960

Congo 1964

Peru 1965

Laos 1964-73

Vietnam 1961-73

Cambodia 1969-70

Guatemala 1967-69

Grenada 1983

Libya 1986

El Salvador 1980s

Nicaragua 1980s

Panama 1989

Iraq 1991-99

Sudan 1998

Afghanistan 1998

Yugoslavia 1999

In how many of these instances did a democratic government, respectful of human rights, occur as a direct result?

Choose one of the following:

(a) 0

(b) zero

(c) none

(d) not a one

(e) a whole number between -1 and +1

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Monday, April 04, 2005

 
STANISLAV PETROV:
The Man Who Saved the World Finally Recognised

Sirens blaring, warning lights flashing, computer screens showing nuclear missiles on their way, one man in charge of a red button labeled “START” - that’s start a retaliatory strike - and a roomful of people at their terminals and switchboards waiting for him to push it.

Sounds like a typical Hollywood Cold War cliffhanger? Read the great story of Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world, by Anastasiya Lebedev at Moscow News 21.05.2004.

Nicholas Danilov - The Man Who Saved the World
Photo: Stanislav Petrov by Nicholas Danilov, courtesy mosnews.com

[via Jim with thanks]

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Friday, April 01, 2005

 
POPE JOHN PAUL II
God bless and farewell, we miss you already

Sadly, the greatest man alive on Earth today, Karol Wojtyla, clings to life.
"This evening or this night, Christ opens the door to the Pope" says Angelo Comastri, Vicar general of Vatican City.
If only a minority of people in this world were as decent, compassionate, caring, loving and kind as Karol Wojtyla was throughout his life, the world would be a much better place.

Pope John Paul II is a godly man who, when he dies, will be hugely missed by millions of people around the world, myself included.

Pope John Paul II

Photo: The Pope on Mount Nebo, west of Amman, Jordan, where Christians believe Moses first glimpsed the Promised Land. It was part of a tour of religious sites in 2000 to mark the millennium.

In February he became the first pope to visit Egypt, a mainly Muslim country, where he called for harmony between different religions.

In March he expressed sympathy with the plight of the Palestinians, and spoke of the Church's sadness at the persecution and anti-Semitism directed at Jews by Christians.

Pope John Paul II

Photo: The Pope has seen many political changes across the world including the fall of Communism in eastern Europe and the end of apartheid in South Africa. In September 1995 he visited South Africa and is pictured in Johannesburg with the country's first black President, Nelson Mandela.

Please click here to read the reactions of others.

[Photos: Courtesy BBC In pictures: Pope John Paul II]
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UPDATE Sat: The Pope died in his private apartment at the Vatican at 2137 local time (1937 GMT) on Saturday April 2, 2005. "Our Holy Father John Paul has returned to the house of the Father" said Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, Senior Vatican official.
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UPDATE Sun:

On the death of the Pope, British blogger Nik Rawlinson, Editor of MacUser magazine, writes:

It is two hours since the Pope died and the news channels are going mad. Most impressive of all, though, is the fact that his entry on the Wikipedia has already been updated with 706 words about his death, the process for the election of his replacement, the likely successors and reaction from around the world.

Why does anyone spend money on encyclopaedias any more?

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Coronation Street TV character to get Alzheimer's

Whilst tracking news for Sudan Watch, I came across this UPI report via India news online March 26:

The producers of British TV series "Coronation Street" have said the character Mike Baldwin, played by Johnny Briggs, will contract Alzheimer's disease.

Baldwin will show early signs of Alzheimer's this summer with moments of forgetfulness that gradually get worse, the Mirror reported Saturday. Scriptwriters are planning to make Baldwin's demise mirror that of Shakespeare's King Lear, who had to divide his kingdom between his three daughters after he suffers madness. Baldwin will also find himself at the center of family wrangling over the Baldwin underwear empire.

"Nobody set out to make a copy of Lear, or thinking they would rewrite the great Bard," a source told the Mirror."It sort of dawned on everybody the story we were telling and it seemed to make sense to take elements of the play and turn it into a modern story."
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Google has a sense of humour

Ha! [via Viper Squad Ten]
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April Fool's Jokes on Websites

GromBlog links to a list of April Fool's Jokes on Websites.
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Lifecaching blogger fails to mobblog Final Moment

Unless I'm mistaken, a March 27 post at Guy Brighton's Wishful Thinking In New York blog is no joke.

Somehow, it made me think of: "Child Prodigy's Time to 'Do Something Great,' Mom Says (washingtonpost.com)" - via linkbunnies.org.

See UKBlogger map an aggregated feed of weblogs in the United Kingdom. Read online or via RSS feed. I think I found it at Betsy Devine's Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?. Not had a chance to see how to get this blog on the UK map.

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