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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Ig Nobel Awards

The 2003 Ig Nobel awards are out. The winners are: Engineering: To John Paul Stapp, Edward A. Murphy, Jr (both posthumous) and George Nichols giving birth in 1949 to Murphy's Law, the basic engineering principle that "If anything can go wrong, it will." Physics: The Australian

In praise of roaches

The humble roach is a much maligned creature, and it's high time to point out some of its virtues. Roaches will never steal the lawn mower from your back garden. Roaches will never send spam with your domain as the return address. Roaches will never forget to update

Queen of my domain

Some husbands get you flowers, which don't last long. Mine gets me a domain, quantumtea.com. It got connected sometime today, and I love it! Thank you!

Heaven

Found the lyrics to this song I heard on the radio by Live, it's called Heaven. This isn't the whole song, I left off the bit at the end. You don't need no friends Get back your faith again You have the power to

Sniffle, part two

Red Dwarf season five, episode "Quarantine," all about being trapped in a quarantine room for seven weeks by your worst enemy. Lister: Guys! Just take it easy! Cat: If he tells me to "take it easy" one more time, I swear I'm gonna turn

Paintings by Caz Novak

Roxanne emailed me about New Zealand artist Caz Novak's website when I was ill to cheer me up. I usually don't go for art websites much, but I loved the style of Novak's paintings, particularly these two: Poppies and Cypresses Provence Go and check

Justice and order online

Another BBC News article about justice in online communities: Does virtual crime need real justice? Wizards, warriors and witches are nothing new in the online gaming world, but have they been joined by real life criminals stealing virtual goods worth hard cash? South Korea's police are already on

Thunder

I love listening to thunder. Even though I know it's just the snap of superheated air cooling after a lightening strike rips through, the long drawn out rumble is still beautiful, almost reassuring. For a strike to land, it has to carve an ionized path between cloud and

Sniffle

I bet Florence Nightingale never got sick.

Specialised humour

Heard a great joke from Susan at work today: Two piccolos were in tune. Music geek humour, wonderful!

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