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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Canadian research

Wonderful paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: Head injuries in nursery rhymes: evidence of a dangerous subtext in children's literature. In the case of Humpty Dumpty, we question whether "all the king's horses and all the king's men" were capable of

Titles needed

Several blogs I've read have recently asked people to send them a list of questions to answer. I like the idea, and please leave questions in the comments of this post, but I have another idea. It's been a while since I added to the Humour

Free association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Blizzard:: "It's the wrong kind of snow, Gromit!" trains out of service for a 4 inch "blizzard"in England. 2. J:: Java, JDK 1.4.2, IntelliJ IDEA, Chronicle, Extreme Programming, coffee cup. 3. Control:: panel, options

Credit cards

Good Telegraph story about a change in UK credit card advertising:

Steel tariffs lifted

It's about time. Bush ditches steel import duties. The tariffs were declared illegal by the World Trade Organisation in early November. President George W Bush has decided to repeal US tariffs on imported steel to avoid a damaging trade war. The decision follows a World Trade Organisation decision

Blogrolls and rankings, mountains and molehills

Bene Diction posted about blog ranking systems yesterday, and the post got me thinking. The blogroll on this page is for me to use. When I get home and check on blogs, I want to go to one page, and Ctrl-click on all the blogs at once (tabbed browsing

Plain English

The Plain English Campaign hands out Foot in Mouth awards to public figures. This year, Donald Rumsfeld got the prize. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won a "Foot in Mouth" award for one of his now legendary bizarre remarks. Mr Rumsfeld won the prize for comments made

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Scrooge:: Charles Dickens, improbable coincidences. 2. Ribbon:: cat toy, Quantum the grey tabby rolling around on her back batting at the ribbon, mouth open and tail stump twitching. 3. Physical:: education, playing hockey in the snow on a frozen field in gym skirts.

Road Trip Thanksgiving

We went to Hampton Virginia for Thanksgiving, and it was a great road trip. Wonderful hospitality, lovely people, excellent food. Lessons learned: * Beef jerky is an acceptable food substance. * It is 890 miles from home to Hampton VA. * Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia combined have less police out on

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Concert:: Mannheim Steamroller, with Dennis and Amy. 2. Sydney:: Opera House, Finding Nemo. 3. Shower:: Bathroom. 4. Patterns:: Knitting, green Aran wool, 42 row pattern and 13 row patterns both together, "It'll be ready for our anniversary!" and eight

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