Monthly Archives: January 2008

Jeremy Beadle

January 31, 2008 – 10:53 am

Jeremy Beadle, an ‘entertainer’ has died aged 59. I qualify the entertainer bit because a lot of his schtick was about embarrassing people using hidden cameras. Mostly folks would take this in good spirits, but I have a strong dislike of playing on people in this way, so while it was OK when I was [...]

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Organophosphates

January 30, 2008 – 10:34 am

AmericaBlog passes on details of a report on the levels of pesticides found in children: The peer-reviewed study found that the urine and saliva of children eating a variety of conventional foods from area groceries contained biological markers of organophosphates, the family of pesticides spawned by the creation of nerve gas agents in World War [...]

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Wear Sunscreen

January 29, 2008 – 2:21 pm

This just turned up on the radio, and it’s too great for me to keep to myself:

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A&E

January 28, 2008 – 7:44 am

In the UK the ER is called A&E (Accident & Emergency). It serves as Urgent Care as well as ER, which is why I found myself there yesterday having smacked my hand something fierce earlier in the day. The nurse practitioner looked at it, ordered an x-ray, then when that came back clear (no breaks, [...]

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Insects to Fear

January 28, 2008 – 7:26 am

Via Neatorama, here’s a summary of the five scariest bugs in the world. I can’t encourage you to watch the videos, because I couldn’t get to the end of any of them: It’s the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, [...]

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