Brent Rasmussen over at Unscrewing the Inscrutable has a great post for dealing with creationists and young earthers; two annoying, braindead, anti-science groups I’ve had dealings with in the past [1]. Ancestral Magnitudes “My grandfather wasn’t no monkey!”, “You think we came from slime?!”, and “man, if you want to believe your great^100 grandpa was …
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Fenchurch Street to Limehouse – The long way. Part one: Fenchurch St to the Thames
A couple of weeks ago I took a ‘cruise’ down the Thames from Tower Bridge to Greenwhich, on the way I noticed and had pointed out many interesting things and places along the river. Saturday I decided to go explore some of those on the North bank of the Thames on foot [1]. The first …
updates
Sorry for lack up recent updates. I’ve left the laptop at work (my preffered system for writings posts involves the latop a nice cool beer and a period of sitting on the roof in the early evening) and it is too bloomin’ hot to sit at the computer. There are a couple of science posts …
Fuck!
Several explosions on London Underground , possible train crash at Kings Cross station, bus explosion at Russell Square. update: 12:30 Now claiming 2 dead, many injured. 7 explosions. And of course ID cards would have prevented all this [/sarcasm] update: 17:56 Well the story is all over the news now. at least 32 dead, many …
London 2012
Yay! London will be hosting the 2012 Olympic games. I work about a mile west of the soon to be Olympic Village. so I have something of a vested interest in seeing this area regenerated. I doubt (hope) I’ll still be living and working in this area come 2012, but it will be interesting to …