Just a small thing that’s been bugging me. That HSBC ad with the old Chinese guy and his cormorant fishing aid. Note the bird. Its instincts are to dive for fish … and eat the catch. The ingenious Chinese, when harnessing its fishing skills, realised that you need to find a way to stop it […]
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OK, I’m taking childish pleasure in this, but am I the only person to think it’s funny that, reversing all the Yellow Peril scares about dastardly Chinese and their Avian Flu, SARS and even Foot & Mouth Disease (exposed as a flat out lie by a government department in 2000), British kids have now taken
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Pic: “I want THIS much!” Now Neil and Glynis Kinnock join in the cheerleading for Tony Blair to be made President of Europe. What, only Europe, Tone? How corrupt do you have to be to continue rewarding the man who took Britain into an illegal war with Iraq which pillaged that country’s resources, murdered hundreds
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Holy ker-rist! Just watched footage of the first stages in the life-cycle of the parasitic wasp on More 4 (waiting for The Great Sperm Race). A caterpillar is stung by a parasitic wasp and implanted with eggs. Over time the larvae grow inside until they take up a third of its by now obese body.
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I finally got an extract of Anna May Wong Must Die! on YouTube. Recorded Tuesday 26th May 2009 at the Roxy Bar & Screen, South London. Still writing and putting the finishing touches to it. And, alas, no remote control of the Powerpoint/Keynote presentation due to my Mac iBook having no infra-red receiver, something I
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Having no special insight into Sunday’s unrest in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, I’m as dependent on media coverage as everyone else, but I’ll try untangling the emerging information. It appears that what started off as a lynching of two Uighurs in a Guangdong toy factory following false accusations of a gang-rape by a disgruntled worker, has
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