Cleopatra's ugly truth

BBC NEWS England Tyne Coin shows Cleopatra's ugly truth: "A coin bearing the image of Cleopatra suggests the Egyptian queen's beauty may have been overstated."

Seems that those who wrote the history of Cleopatra had little knowledge of her true likeness

Dinometalica

Dinometalica
Originally uploaded by Fred Dawson.

Made in Africa from recycled car and bike parts. An example of recycling that brings economic benefits to third world countries

Mashup programming - News feeds

Introducing Pipes: "What Is Pipes?

Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.

Philosophy Behind the Project
There is a rapidly-growing body of well-structured data available online in the form of XML feeds. These feeds range from simple lists of blog entries and news stories to more structured, machine-generated data sources like the Yahoo! Maps Traffic RSS feed. Because of the dearth of tools for manipulating these data sources in meaningful ways, their use has so far largely been limited to feed readers."

e-communication a problem for Government

The Evening Standard Reports that Senior ministers have vented their anger at Downing Street for allowing petitions on its website. One high-ranking member of the Government said the idea had been dreamt up by a "prat" and was proving to be a public relations disaster.

This is another example where politics and public opinion collide. Any sensible person should have anticipated that the platform which e-communication provides, has the ability to destabilise the historic process by which Governments make decisions on contentious issues.

The great road toll fiasco News This is London:

Link to the e-petitions page
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/

Road To Alabama

Jeremy Clarkson and his Team provoke the wrath of conservative Americans whilst crossing Alabama. An unsurprising insight in the psyche of some of those who live in the Deep South. This YouTube video tells the story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQy9qm8sGk

A menace to science

"For years, 'Dr' Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in. Yet the real problem is not what she calls herself, but the mumbo-jumbo she dresses up as scientific fact, says Ben Goldacre"

A menace to science Special reports Guardian Unlimited:

http://www.badscience.net/?p=362

Another but ryhming take on Gillian Mckeith can be found at :-
http://www.stablesound.co.uk/drgillian.php

Monsanto dumped toxic waste in UK | Waste and pollution | Guardian Unlimited Environment

A critical test of the Part IIA Regulations relating to contaminated land

Monsanto dumped toxic waste in UK Waste and pollution Guardian Unlimited Environment

It will be interesting to see how this turns out and how long it takes, I won't be holding my breath!!!!