9th March 2009
Next to a wind vane in front of AlGore’s mouth, I can’t think of a cleverer way of generating power.
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8th March 2009
Well, that would explain a lot.
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8th March 2009
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8th March 2009
John Key, the Centre-Right prime minister who took office last November, announced that orders of chivalry would once again be awarded to recognise services to New Zealand.
Knighthoods were abolished by Helen Clark, the former prime minister, who was accused by opponents of pursuing a secret agenda of “republicanism by stealth.”
Mr Key said the Queen had assented and knighthoods would return in the Birthday Honours List in June. Eighty-five people who had been honoured since 2000 would be offered the opportunity to take up titles.
Sometimes the old ways are best.
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8th March 2009
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7th March 2009
You, too, can talk like a banker.
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6th March 2009
We have the technology.
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6th March 2009
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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5th March 2009
I like it.
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4th March 2009
Good to know that there’s something in Columbia besides coffee and cocaine.
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3rd March 2009
In case that’s what you want to do.
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2nd March 2009
I am not making this up.
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2nd March 2009
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2nd March 2009
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28th February 2009
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28th February 2009
How was it that a German priest writing in Latin and living in a French city far from the coast became the first person to tell the world that a vast ocean lay to the west of the American continents?
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28th February 2009
Read it.
Stronardron Douglas fir in Argyll, which has been revealed as Britain’s tallest tree.
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27th February 2009
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26th February 2009
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26th February 2009
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26th February 2009
We have the technology.
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26th February 2009
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25th February 2009
Well, that would be interesting.
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25th February 2009
But that trick never works….
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25th February 2009
We have the techology.
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25th February 2009
Not really news, but a useful reminder.
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25th February 2009
We have the technology.
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24th February 2009
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24th February 2009
And about fargin time, too.
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24th February 2009
So once the ice sheet melts due to AlGore’s hot air, and New York City is under 30 feet of water, these will be available for skiing. A win-win.
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24th February 2009
Well, then, I’m doing my part for health. (I’ve heard that bacon intensifies the effect. I’m on board with that, too.)
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24th February 2009
The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water – hardly as catchy as Mr. Clean. But at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, some hotel workers are calling it el liquido milagroso – the miracle liquid.
That’s as good a name as any for a substance that scientists say is powerful enough to kill anthrax spores without harming people or the environment.
Okay, how long before the envirofascists get it mandated by law?
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23rd February 2009
He did not, apparently, have a waistcoat and pocket watch.
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23rd February 2009
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23rd February 2009
If you’ve ever seen the size of some Japanese apartments, this will come as no surprise.
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20th February 2009
The last nail in the coffin of the Segway.
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20th February 2009
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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20th February 2009
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20th February 2009
This has serious implications for the Democratic members of Texas’s Congressional delegation.
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20th February 2009
How cool is that?
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19th February 2009
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18th February 2009
No word on whether he was a Party member.
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18th February 2009
Whatever their formal nationality, these people are Americans where it counts.
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18th February 2009
Slow news day.
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16th February 2009
And about time, too.
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16th February 2009
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16th February 2009
I am not making this up.
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16th February 2009
Hong Kong director Derek Yee considered toning down the violence in “Shinjuku Incident” so it could pass censorship rules, but decided not to because he thought it would hurt the integrity of the movie.
Of course.
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16th February 2009
Those scientists are sure a talkative bunch.
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15th February 2009
Try finding something this interesting in an American newspaper. Go ahead — I dare you.
More here.
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