I always dig this link out before I go on a trip, so here it is again: the vegetarian passport has phrases explaining what vegetarians and vegans can and can’t eat in lots of international languages.
But I’m not looking forward to weeks of vegetarian joy in Laos, though it might be ok.
(Did I mention I was going on holiday? Oh yes. Back in a few weeks).
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Peep Show (I promise it’s not what you think it is, no matter what you think it is).
This is as much to keep the link handy for the next time someone asks as anything else but moneysavingexpert has an article on free anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and firewalls.
Preserve public spaces on the net
“The services we are all using and increasingly dependent on, like Flickr and YouTube and FaceBook, are not there to make our lives better or enhance the quality of public participation. They are there to make money for their founders and owners.
Just as the purpose of commercial television is not to make good TV programmes but simply to deliver an aggregated audience to advertisers, so the real point of social networks is not to transform our ways of life but to find new contexts within which we can be exposed to approved commercial messages.
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However, in the process of privatisation we have given up an important third space, somewhere between the university network and YouTube, a space which we can all use equally and which is dedicated to the public good.
We have lost the online equivalent of parks and roads and shopping streets, where the limits on what we can reasonably say and do are set by society as a whole and not by the commercial interests of one company.” BBC
It’s PC gone mad!
(I’ve always wanted to say that)
Apology for ‘idiots’ election ban
It only says it was ‘created by two avid photographers with a vision to make the World’s most extensive collection of historical photographs available to the masses. They worked to compile this collection from extensive personal archives, private collections, and public institutions’ but old-picture.com has some amazing collections.
Fab.U.Lous: “Too often in the media, currency is given to the theory that everyone should be allowed to marry regardless of gender, outlook and whether the two people are creating a suitable family environment in which to bring up children.
Well, it is time to ask some hard questions about this attitude. The only way we will save marriage is to reclaim the institution for the mainstream. Marriage is for normal people who want to raise children in a healthy and secure environment. This is why we should ban religious fundamentalists from marrying.” SMH
No wonder gardening is ace…
‘Exposure to dirt may be a way to lift mood as well as boost the immune system, UK scientists say.’ BBC
Eurovision!
I would love to see Verka Serdyuchka vs Dame Edna Everage in a Eurovision comedy drag showdown. Inspired by the BBC on Ukraine’s Eurovision entry.