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Interesting to see the news report Luther forwarded me today about the arch shown in the below photo from my 2008 Great Ocean Road trip collapsing. Kinda nice to see the “what happened after” for places we've travelled. At least this time there was no-one on the island when the arch in the middle collapsed!

I was amused enough by this Samsung ad using LEDs on sheep:

Anyone who thought that Bush's speechwriter's slip in referring to the Middle-Eastern invasions as a “Crusade” was just a poor choice of words and nothing more significant might be interested to see GQ's collection of title pages from Donald Rumsfeld's defence briefings – featuring proud photos of tanks, missile launches, soldiers praying etc., superimposed bible quotes supposedly backing their invasions (“thou shalt not kill” is needless to say not one of them). Not really the kind of thing that should be appearing in top-level state military advice.

The first page of reviews for the Uranium Ore for sale on Amazon is gold – "This is a great product but for any serious application, you must also buy this :Oxo Good Grips Salad Spinner. This is so you can centrifuge it and increase its applications. " and “I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.” and -

Two interesting items on the BBC news website this week, firstly a group of scientists think they've found the frequently-observed link between asthma and eczema – and that it goes severe dermatitis → asthma, which means it might be breakable; and secondly, a 3-year study of 800 babies concluded food intolerances and allergies are far, far less commonly the problem than the babies' mothers think – and are don't seem to be getting any more common as time goes by, contrary to rumours to that effect.

After Sarah showed me the somewhat alarming meatcards.com – business cards seared into meat – I found this great collection of creative business cards. Some of the laser cuts are cool but I think the ones like the divorce lawyer, the personal trainer, & the hair person are best!