- Supermarkets pay farmers as little as 3 pence per chicken. And all male chicks, unsuitable for the egg industry, are killed and turned into pet food. These are just a couple of the facts Jamie Oliver talked about in the first ten minutes of Jamie's Foul Dinners. We recorded the rest but could not bear to watch it yet.
- Eugène Ionesco wrote children's stories for his daughter.
- Dykes On Bikes applied for a trademark.
- HD TV only display 40% of the colour spectrum the eye can see. A proposed new TV technology that uses laser illumination offers double that.
- Artist Raymond Briggs (The Snowman, of Walking in the Air fame) also wrote When the Wind Blows, a graphic novel about a nuclear attack on Britain. If you were a child in the early Eighties in the UK, chances are you were traumatized by it too.
- Once or twice a year the BBC tests its emergency rebroadcast system and you might get to see the old test cards for an hour or so.
- You can let friends who are not on Flickr view your private photos with a Flickr Guest Pass – basically just a URL that is not displayed anywhere on your Flickr pages, and that you can give to friends and switch off after a while if you wish so.
Sunday 13 January 2008 at 12:22 AM
Ahhhh 'When The Wind Blows'. Takes me back to Mrs Harris's class. How I cried…..
Then I read 'Protect and Survive' and really scared myself to death. Oh how I miss Thatcher's Britain.