Tag Archives: Catastrophe
Modern Alchemy: Tincture of Winchester
I am partial to smoky flavours — smoked cheese, smoked fish, smoked tea, all that good stuff — so the Tincture of Winchester candle, apparently named after the rifle and giving forth, according to this here online brochure, an aroma … more…
Virgin ends ad campaign with anarchic site over images of Branson
Excellent news from the Guardian: Virgin has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn after a new viral advertising campaign backfired spectacularly. The company had asked readers of b3ta.com, an online community known for bad taste jokes, to create a new … more…
Carbon rationing, and something of what we might expect to happen instead
New Statesman – Why we must ration the future A powerful and persuasive case for carbon rationing… Today, atmospheric CO2 stands at 380 parts per million by volume (ppm), a higher level than at any time since the Eocene era … more…
Palaeography, a wasted opportunity
You would think that putting together a site about palaeography — the study of ancient writing — would be an opportunity to turn out something truly gorgeous, and in that you would be right. So, considering the huge potential in … more…
The End of Eden
James Lovelock talks to The Washington Post about our prospects. “It’s going too fast,” he says softly. “We will burn.” Why is that? “Our global furnace is out of control. By 2020, 2025, you will be able to sail a … more…
The political tide may be turning (at last) on climate change
Well this is certainly encouraging. In the wake of California’s carbon emissions deal, the Independent reports: It is not just the state of California that is bypassing the authority of the US government to take action on global warming. The … more…
Meteor near miss
Also from today’s Daily Bleed: (August 10th) 1966 — Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth’s atmosphere & leaving it again. (Some say it was in 1972.)
little man, you’ve had a busy day
I was up and about at 5.30 this morning, feeling fine, and happily sat down to work. I’ve spent most of the last, what, sixteen and a half hours on this blog, and I require a pat on the head, … more…
who do you think you are kidding…
- Might have been better if the black ground had been replaced with something a bit more “period”. As it is, it looks a little too much like a shoot-em-up status indicator – which in a way, it would be, … more…
eBay: PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL 1968
After more than four years’ membership of eBay, I finally won something. Sure I’ve Bought This Item Now!, but that’s not the same. Anyway, this is what I’ve bought: the only published annual for an aborted Gerry Anderson TV series, … more…