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The carbon cost of Germany’s nuclear ‘Nein danke!’

By 6000 | 6000 | August 3, 2011

We’ve mentioned Andrea Merkel’s idiotic decision to abandon nuclear power a couple of times on this blog recently (namely here and here). At the time, I said it was a kneejerk reaction – one that hadn’t been properly through (save for trying to keep the green lobby happy). Well, things seem to be going from bad to [...]

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Frozen Divers’ Faces

By 6000 | 6000 | July 30, 2011

From The Telegraph: Sports photographer Ezra Shaw, employed by Getty Images, captured divers’ faces frozen in concentration during the men’s 3m springboard preliminary round at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai, with hilarious results. Concentrated gravity + concentrating minds makes for some oddly disturbing images. That’s Sweden’s Jonathan Joernfalk. More faces only a mother [...]

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BMW driver proud to be last Koeberg lane cutter

By 6000 | 6000 | July 29, 2011

As the new ramp from the M5 North onto the N1 North was opened this morning, with it ended an years-old tradition for many Capetonians – the opportunity to cut-in to the queuing traffic at Koeberg Interchange. In a press release announcing the opening, a city spokeswoman stated: The question, much posed in the local [...]

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I’m not dead…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 25, 2011

“He says he’s not dead!” So begins the dialogue in Scene 2 of Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. That’s a British comedy film, full of utterly ridiculous scenarios – like a bloke who’s not dead being taken away because some relative thinks he knows better. Some say that, even by Monty [...]

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Iceland whale tourism idea is brilliant

By 6000 | 6000 | July 16, 2011

Iceland. Land of ice. And volcanoes. And financial ruin (like everywhere else these days). And puffins. They’ve come up with another gem of an idea to attract visitors to their lump of rock: Whale watching – with a twist. You get to eat what you see. Watching and hunting whales “work perfectly together” in a [...]

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