Fox on the run

In Arizona a lady jogger ended up taking a fox with her - attached to her arm. The rabid fox attacked her after she´d backed away from the animal. She ended up having to run back to her car with the animal on her arm, wrench it off with a shirt before visiting the nearest medical center. It was confirmed that the fox was indeed rabid. One hell of a workout though.

Russian sabre rattling: Missiles to Baltic

Russia has responded to the US plans for it´s missile shield base in Poland and the Czech republic by saying they´ll be stationing missiles in the Baltic states. They see the anti-missile shield as a threat even though it´s only supposed to be used against rogue states according to the US. With the US being somewhat of an international bully, its good to see someone standing up them.

Lost in translation: Welsh

A translation error for the modern world. A welsh out of office reply ended up on a road sign as a translation for a ¨goods vehicles only" board. Nice one!

Giant Lego Man

Another artist has been busy. After allowing a giant Lego figure to wash up on the Dutch coast in August 2007, another one bearing the same slogan ¨No real than you are¨ was found on Brighton Beach.
Nice stunt from Ego Leonard.

Xubuntu 8.10 released

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex has seen the light of day and following suit the derivative Linux distributions are also out. I like Xubuntu because itś built for speed so even your five year old PC in the corner can be made useful with it. Time to try it out.

Fact: Polar warming is man made

The Nature Geoscience journal has published evidence that humans really are the cause of melting ice caps. Not that it really matters anymore. There are too many people who still argue that Gore´s climate film was unscientific, when the fact is we are feeling the effects of climate change already. It´s pointless trying to convince them when we should be focusing our energies on how to cope with these changes. Wee already screwed up the planet, so we might as well get on and see how we can best live in the mess that we created.

Beer sales slide, pub culture dying?

Could the UK pub culture really be under threat? I notice that fewer people were going out between the Christmas and New Year breaks the last few years. I thought the drop in restrictions on opening hours would help things, but now that the smoking ban has been introduced and alcohol prices in the pub growing ever higher, it seems that beer sales are suffering. Five pubs a day are shutting up shop.
Considering the fact that beer from the off-licence and supermarket is cheaper, and people have more home entertainment these days, no wonder more people are staying at home.
But the UK government´s attitude of using alcohol as the scape goat for causing anti-social behaviour doesn´t help. Even now they government are talking about banning supermarkets from selling beer under cost price. This all reminds me too much of the Al Capone years in the US when they tried to ban liquor. When will the government realise that hanging on a street corner with a tin of lager is because the youth have nothing else to do. Tackle the problem not the symptom.