The Liverpool Echo reports that new legislation allows the police to “purge” gangsters, who can be issued with warnings if their car’s glass is over 25% tinted, and whose cars can ultimately be crushed (via Transport Blog). I don’t know…
A scholar writes
One of the reasons moving me to collect and print the principal Phoenician Inscriptions is, that I consider the general use of the square Hebrew character joined to the general practice of writing it in the way we call ‘backwards,’…
Railway deaths
Seven people died in the Berkshire train crash at the weekend which made headline news. Nine people die every day on average because of car accidents. From the Tranport 2000 Facts and figures section: In 2001 the total number of…
Cows
Cows are excellent: see Aurochs.org.
Patents
Esp@cenet (presum@bly n@med @fter the sp@cious Ren@ult Esp@ce c@r) is the site of the European Patent Office. It is fully searchable and includes British and worldwide patents. Hours of fun can be found looking up flying saucers (e.g. Ashton Frank…
Indian Mutiny and Flashman
I have just read Saul David’s The Indian Mutiny followed by George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman in the Great Game, which make for a fantastic combination. I wouldn’t have understood a word of the latter without reading the former, which is…
Fuel protests again
It seems that more people are gearing up for a repeat of the fuel protests of 2000 and that Twat Howard is lending his principled support to the protests. They seem also to be putting the pressure on the government…
Various tests
BBC personality test. I am apparently a Resolver which does seem quite accurate, though significantly wrong on a few points. Obviously, I wouldn’t say what they are… Estimation quiz (via Crooked Timber). 33%, which is not too good I suppose.…
The concrete cows of Milton Keynes
I have added a long-overdue section about the Milton Keynes concrete cows to the Famous Cows page. One day I hope to go to see them.
Watching TV ‘is bad for children’
This is news, apparently.