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From time to time I come across an item either amusing, entertaining or just plain interesting, that I think I would like to show to my friends. Well from now on, those items will appear here.

Our Small World

Did you know - The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth

Simon's Cat..... 'Cat Man Do'

This is so funny!

Did you know - The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

How to make a baby...I think?

This is just so funny, all credit to Cassidy Curtis and Raquel Coelha for the production.

Did you know - Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

Musicians around the world play "Stand By Me"

The Playing For Change project made this film of buskers around the world playing "Stand By Me" (it's part of a project that raises funds to build schools).

Did you know - Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.

What's all this about then?

Sci-Fi meets the real World....a bit scary!

Did you know - Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.

World's major rivers 'drying up'

Water levels in some of the world's most important rivers have declined significantly over the past 50 years, US researchers say.

They say the reduced flows are linked to climate change and will have a major impact as the human population grows.

Link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8011497.stm

Did you know - 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

The Truth is Emerging!

Danish main stream media report on the discovery of thermetic explosives found in multiple sample of the dust from World Trade Center collapse..........Explain that!

Did you know - The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.

For the attention of UK citizens

http://www.statebook.co.uk/

Statebook is a spoof government site, providing examples of the types of information the UK government holds an an individual citizen. The site also shows what new information the government want to collect, through new schemes, like the 'Intercept Modernisation Programme' which could even include amassing all of our Internet traffic data in a single government database.

Did you know - Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.

The Beatles: Digitally Remastered Catalogue

Release date 09/09/09

The albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of this painstaking process is the highest fidelity the catalogue has seen since its original release.

Did you know - A group of ravens is called a murder.

Further To My 'Did you know' Series

Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman

Did you know - The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.

Prince Charles Depressed About Lack of Action on Climate Change

Prince Charles admitted in an interview published Sunday that he found it "depressing" that his frequent warnings over climate change had not been heeded.

The Prince of Wales added, though, that he was "delighted" that it seemed people had begun to realise that he had in fact been ringing the alarm over a serious issue and not "complete nonsense".

"All I have been trying to do is remind people that we have to live and work in harmony with nature if we are to have any chance of surviving on this planet," Charles told the Sunday Telegraph in the Galapagos Islands at the end of a 10-day tour of South America.

Asked if he was frustrated his warnings had not been taken seriously, he replied: "It is depressing. I am not doing this for myself but, as I keep saying, for everyone's children and our grandchildren."

Did you know - A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.

CONTRAILS vs CHEMTRAILS

It is important to distinguish between contrails and chemtrails. Contrails are streaks of condensed water vapor created in the air by jet airplanes at high altitudes.

Chemtrails, on the other hand, are visible directly behind an aircraft, with little or no gap between the aircraft and the start of the trail.

Watch the video and be aware!

Did you know - The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.

Global Crisis Warning

Taken from today's news (19/03/09) from the BBC

Did you know - Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children

The world's first climate change refugees

Within a few weeks a boat filled with wide-eyed children and tearful adults will pull out from a Pacific lagoon to escape the slow death of their island home.

The group will become the world's first refugees from the effects of global warming, leaving behind a tiny speck of land that is being slowly swallowed by the rising ocean.

Ironically, the Carteret Islanders have made what is possibly the smallest carbon footprint on the planet, yet they are the first to suffer the devastating effects of a wider, polluted world they know nothing about.

Such is the effect of rising seas that tidal surges have cut one of the small islands in the Carteret group - 1,000 miles north east of Australia- in half, the salt water slicing through the low centre.

"We have struggled for more than 20 years to keep the sea back from our villages," says Mr Bernard Tunim from Piul, one of the islands in the group.

"We've built sea walls, planted mangrove trees along the shore, but the storm surges and high tides just come in and wash everything away.

"We've lost our simple houses, our vegetable gardens have been destroyed and our fresh water supplies in the ground have been contaminated.

"For drinking all we can rely on now is rainwater and coconut juice, but even the coconut trees are dying. You can walk along the beach and see just the bottoms of dead trees sticking up through the sand."

Did you know - The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.

Did the Irish discover Africa?

Did you know - Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.

British Police Are Criminalising Peaceful Protest

Last week Lib Dem MP David Howarth held a meeting in Westminster to present a highly disturbing and potentially explosive report on the way police in the UK are criminalising legitimate protest.

The British Government justified the heavy-handed approach by revealing that 70 police officers had been injured policing the protest; but a freedom of information request revealed that these 'injuries to police' included such things as heatstroke, toothache and insect bites.

Vernon Coaker, the Home Office minister who had made the claim about police injuries, was later forced to apolgise to the House and admit that "there were no recorded injuries to police officers sustained as a result of direct contact with the protestors

R.I.P. - Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

Did you know - Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.

Britian shows signs of heading towards 1930's style depression

Areas of increased unemployment

The country is displaying early symptoms of being trapped in a so-called “debt deflation trap” where families find themselves pushed further and further into the red every month, according to a Bank of England report published today, 16/03/09.

The stark warning will cause serious concerns, since it was this combination of falling prices and soaring debt burdens that plagued the US in the 1930s.

The bank is using it's Quarterly Bulletin to highlight the threat posed to the economy by deflation – where prices fall each year rather than rise.

Although inflation is currently in positive territory, it is expected to become negative in the coming months. The Bank is worried that this may combine with high levels of indebtedness to squeeze families further.

Did you Know - Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.

Sita Sings the Blues is finally free!

After years of wrangling, Nina Paley's acclaimed, brilliant short film, Sita Sings the Blues is finally available as a free, open-licensed downloads. Paley spent a shocking amount of time and money fighting over the copyrights to the 1920s jazz music that is integral to the film (some have likened it to Betty Boop in Bollywood, which is catchy, but fails to capture the fantasticness of the film), Paley's finally secured a license that allows her to distribute the whole movie, for free, forever, under a remix-friendly license.

Click above to watch the movie

Did You Know -Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria.

Put A Smile On Your Face

Mental floss' step-by-step guide to destroying civilization with nanotechnology.

Did You Know - Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.

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