Monthly Archives: December 2007

More Aging

December 27, 2007 – 5:30 am

I’m just watching the weather forecast on the BBC’s 24 hour news channel. Obviously this isn’t quite the big leagues, so we’re getting one of the backup forecasters; perfectly capable and assured, just not one of the A list. Perhaps that’s why he looks to be about 15, an impression not helped by the suit [...]

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Aryan Prophylaxis

December 24, 2007 – 6:32 am

I recently watched a documentary about the stripping of Jewish wealth by the Nazis running up to and early in the second world war. One of the companies it looked at is Fromms, currently the second largest condom manufacturer in Germany* and at one time the largest. In 1916 Julius Fromm invented a way to [...]

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Evil Eye

December 21, 2007 – 7:15 am

Not sure how much I’ll be blogging over the holidays, so I hope you have whatever you would consider a great Christmas/festival of your choice. And in the meantime I leave you with this, which might just be the most awesome thing that has ever existed.

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Consumer Waste and Cognitive Dissonance

December 20, 2007 – 9:44 am

It’s my son’s birthday today, and while we tend to get good middle-class people’s presents (lego, books, etc) we’re not immune to the lure of cheap plastic/die-cast crap. So he’s currently playing with a battleship complete with ‘realistic’ jet aircraft (not that any of them could realistically land on a battleship, but he doesn’t seem [...]

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European Health Care

December 19, 2007 – 9:22 am

The EU is floating a plan to allow EU citizens to get health care in any member country if they are facing undue delays in their own country. Some Labour MPs are concerned that this would lead to an internal market that could kill the NHS. My guess is that they can see a system [...]

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