October stuff

Just a collection of articles that caught my eye over this past couple of months... and partly because I didn't have the time to write a proper post on each one :P

What's in your child's lunchbox?

Apart from the actual issue about healthy eating, what drew my eye to this article was the picture. Who has the time effort to do that for their child everyday in order for them to eat healthily?

Core blimey!

An apple that is half red and half green, naturally. Just a bit odd.

Leeds light night

Apparently it takes place every year. How did I not know about it before?

Torso issues? 

Guys apparently you can now get t-shirts to enhance your torso. Anything to avoid the gym then I guess.

The Russian baby - miracle or hoax?

Passages from the Quran are said to appear on a 9 month baby’s skin, which eventually fade and are replaced with new passages.

Education and women
Apparently educated women can influence and possibly extend their life as well as their partners. Well, who knew marriage had so many benefits? lol

Obama's lecturn
I hope that things falling apart is not a sign of things to come what with mid term elections around the corner. And yes... I am also worried about my new found interest in politics whether it is UK, USA or Pakistan. I should go away and do something trivial to displace these serious political thoughts.

Scotch tape wins a Nobel Prize
Just goes to show that you can still win a Nobel prize just by mucking about in the lab.

Girl power

A 20 year female criminology student has become the youngest ever police chief for one of Mexico's most violent towns. A tough position to be in... especially when you learn that town's previous mayor and numerous police officers have been kidnapped and murdered over the past few years. Eek! Good luck to her as it sounds like she's going to need it!

Old Broadcasting House wins prize

The OBH - some people really hate it, some not so much. The rusty building actually won a prize for being the world's best new tallest building, beating the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai. Go figure :)

The Elephant's trunk
It sounds like the scene from The Elephant's Story, one of Rudyard Kiplin's Just So Stories, the one where the the crocodile pulled and created the elephant's trunk.

A toast to you

I'm always partial to a bit of toast, but then again some people just take it a bit too far. A daughter in law made a mosaic of her mother in law... out of toast. To show her how much she loved her. Okay. I have to say it is bloody good though!

Tony Blair

Aah, Tony Blair. He's never out of the news for too long, eh?

So I suppose the following doesn't how true anymore ;)

Location Lingo

Everyone has a nickname for their hometown and now a group of people with the Ordnance survey have set up database to collect these nicknames. The rule are that it cannot be an official name, it must be used by more than three for a month at least and it cannot be made up for a survey. Anyone with their own suggestions for their hometowns can visit Location Lingo.