Today I branch out into the advice column game. The Times Online columnist Eco Worrier tried to answer this question:
How can I persuade my husband to use a push mower?
The Times suggest that she manipulate him.
Target his weakness. Is he a touch sensitive about his growing tummy? Point out that according to Which? magazine, [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2008 by pwyll
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I’d side with Buffet on this one.
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by pwyll
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Note to self: stay out of the United Arab Emirates.
A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison.
Keith Brown, a council youth development officer, was travelling through the United Arab Emirates on his way [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by pwyll
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If this tax catches on, I’m screwed.
The latest issue of Ode, the Dutch-founded environmentally aware magazine that has its U.S. offices in Mill Valley, includes an interview with Argentine author Gonzalo Otalora, whose book, “Feo!” (”Ugly!”), calls for taxes on beautiful people, who according to “countless studies” have unfair advantages in getting jobs, choosing mates [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2008 by pwyll
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Via the BBC:
An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey. The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the city of Gebze on Friday.
She had said she [...]
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Wired:
Rapidly evolving technology and increasing concern about the environmental impact of meat production are signs that vat-grown meat is moving from scientific curiosity to consumer option. In vitro meat production is a specialized form of tissue engineering, a biomedical practice in which scientists try to grow animal tissues like bone, skin, kidneys and hearts. Proponents [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2008 by pwyll
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