http://homepage.mac.com/simon_aughton/belgium/atomium/4/

Pics from our trip to LA, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco and Alcatraz: homepage.mac.com/simon_aughton/usa.

“ForceThemToRealizeWhoYouAreWithSuperViagra”

The pavement and bushes outside our apartments are no more.

...is funnier.



garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com

Great band; great video.



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Inexplicable excavations have closed the square in front of our apartment. In the evening and at weekends the absence of traffic noise is a delight, but during the day it’s bang, crash, drill and this morning they started sawing the tarmac to dig a new hole. It’s like living in a very noisy and very dusty Louis Sachar novel.

Bionics made real. Incredible: spectrum.ieee.org/video?id=221

A great piece on water fadism by Dominic Lawson, brother of “domestic goddess” Nigella. The whole article is well worth reading, but this is my favourite bit:

“She is a self-confessed ‘aquaholic’, drinking up to three litres of water before retiring for the night. Ever since she admitted the fact, ‘alternative’ health writers have claimed that her bladder-testing nightcap is the secret of her lustrous complexion – a typically far-fetched claim by the advocates of ‘8x8’. Nigella is much too sensible to believe this nonsense, attributing her skin-tone instead to a mixture of genetic good fortune and a high dietary fat intake.”

The Independent / Dominic Lawson: Bottled or tap, we drink far too much water

Another from Becs’ Flickrlogue:

Bought one of these iPhones-without-a-phone while in that London on Saturday. Can’t see what all the fuss us about ;)

I have nothing to add to Becs’ comments.

A new image gallery: our local football team beaten 2-1 at the weekend

Not only does it have a revolting taste, but decaffeinated coffee also poses a threat to health. Why do I want to laugh?

“A study presented to the American Heart Association two years ago by Dr Robert Superko, chair of molecular and preventative cardiology at the Fuqua Heart Centre, Atlanta, found that decaf coffee increased blood pressure and harmful LDL cholesterol. After three months, drinkers of decaf in the trial experienced a rise in fatty acids and cholesterol by 8 per cent. ‘It’s not caffeinated but decaf that might promote risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome,’ Superko says. ‘People should think twice about drinking it.’”

Not to mention that decaffeination is an industrial process - with the environmental impact that may cause - and not a particularly effective one.

“Professor Bruce Goldberger, the study’s co-author, says decaf should not be mistaken for ‘caffeine-free’. ‘If someone drinks five to ten cups of decaf coffee, the dose of caffeine could easily reach the level present in two cups of regular, caffeinated coffee,’ Goldberger says. ‘This is of particular concern to people advised to cut their caffeine intake.’”

Times Online / How do you drink yours?

Designed and built myself.

The Dominican - now there at least two bars in Brussels city centre where you can get a decent glass of wine.

David Lanham’s beautiful icons for Leopard available from the IconFactory.

Any ideas? (Yes, I know, it looks like the Canon is on the way out)