Thursday, February 25, 2010

How Plastic Bottles Are Poisoning Babies | newmatilda.com

Now I understand why Kathmandu are claiming their new water bottles are BPA free...

How Plastic Bottles Are Poisoning Babies | newmatilda.com

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Multivitamin Comparison - From Empty Air to Massively Boosting Health

Multivitamin Comparison - From Empty Air to Massively Boosting Health

Good Grief, it seems that Berocca Performance (3%) is just lolly water.

Of all things, Amway Nutriway is 27% and GNC Livewell is 26%.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

"Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries" by A.E. Housman

(ending track from the 1980 movie "The Dogs of War", sung by Gillian McPherson)


Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

These, in the day when heaven was falling,

The hour when earth's foundations fled,

Followed their mercenary calling,

And took their wages, and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;

They stood, and earth's foundations stay;

What God abandoned, these defended,

And saved the sum of things for pay.

A.E. Housman


Tuesday, February 09, 2010

BRW tries to stop copying of it's content

BRW is using a new trick to stop the likes of google and traditional cut and paste:
Bots, bugs and bellyaches

They use stylesheets to mix up the letters! So if you look at the source code, you see junk:

Y u n w h t l a a e b u b i d n a e t r o s

instead of

You know that old adage about building a better mouse

In fact, the actual source code looks like this:
Y u  n w  h t  l  a a e  b u 
b i d n  a  e t r  o s  t a 
l a i g  o  h  i v n i n  f  
b t e  m u e?  t  a  a  w l 
h v  b e  w i t n  o  c m u e s
 n  c m u e  v r s s,  h c  b g n
 s  o u  p o r m i g  l t h s
 p e d  i  C  a d  a e  o p e 
a o g  i h  h  t c n l g  t  u e
 u t  b u  e e y  e n  i a i a l 
t  t a s i  t e s l e  f o 
u s s e t n  e d  s r  o  n u p c i g  n  u e .