It’s time for a strange and interesting news round-up from the web:
Hamsters in Jackets Create Electricity
German Village Turns Off Street Lights (but turn them back on with their mobile phones)
And finally…
Kit Kat Unveils Human Vending Machines In London
There you go. Have a nice day!
Back to my musical distraction posts, this time it’s the Junkie XL remix of Talk by Coldplay.
Sadly I couldn’t grab a photograph of the offending sign but it amused me highly. It read:
Congleton Leisure Centre
7th Annual Beer Festival
Fail? No…?
Stopping posting for a while, I’m sure the other two will fill your lives with strange and interesting knowledge instead. See you soon!
I dislike today already.
23 hours and 52 minutes until it’s over.
Omen is the new single from The Prodigy, out 16th February. The Prodigy are also to play Download at Donington Park on Saturday June 13th (tickets on sale as of this morning).
The end of an era, but how can you replace people like morse, frost taggart in these programmes? its just not right!
anyway, the project is going a little better now, I’m enjoying what little time I spend in the lab and have learnt so much this week! My yield’s are however abysmal! Oh well I will just have to write up what I have!
Anyway here is another tickler
This story has just captured my eye and I feel the need to post it, because I think more people should see it. Highly amusing.
We all know that the Russian people are not famed for their sense of humour, and this sums it up.
Anastasia, 13, explained in an e-mail to the President’s official Kremlin website that her parents had given her a male guinea pig and that she hoped Mr Medvedev would send a girlfriend to keep him company.
After weeks without a reply the teenager was suddenly summoned to see her headmistress at her village school in Kalitvensky near Rostov, southern Russia, and given a dressing-down for wasting the President’s time.
The headmistress, Galina Boldireva, went further. She called the girl’s father, poured scorn on her academic abilities and criticised him for allowing his daughter to disturb the President with such a trivial matter.
“She was insulting my husband, saying that we were not paying enough attention to what she was doing in her free time at home and that we could afford to buy a guinea pig,” Anastasia’s mother Lyudmila said.
The schoolgirl became a guinea pig for people power, however, when her indignant parents wrote again to the Kremlin to complain about her treatment by local officials. The presidential response was swift and decisive.
Anastasia was summoned to see the head again, but this time was met by a red-faced local education director holding two guinea pigs in a cage. The official handed over a letter acknowledging Anastasia’s request to the President and explaining that he had personally presented the gift to her.
FromFebruary 12, 2009
Awesome!
Why hello there, yes I thought I’d finally post a little bit since it’s been such a while.
However, as per usual I have not a lot to write about, unless you like brainular science type stuffs…
This week is about to be without doubt one of the busiest so far this year; weird really how this course rolls – weeks with nothing and then boom, more than you can comprehend. Nicht so gut.
So, for those who are interested, this week doesn’t involve any form of fMRI (I got 90% by the way, and only graded an A-; frankly piss-poor marking if you ask me), but it does involve copious amounts of PD, schizotypal behaviour analysis, ANOVAs and those pesky little buggers the control participants.
