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A peeling tale  The Great Banana Revolution Should you peel bananas from the bottom up?

Damning documentary evidence unveiled. Dissident bloggers in coordinated exposé of UK government lies over torture. Help us beat the British government’s gagging order by mirroring this information on your own site or blog! Constituent: “This question is for Mr Straw; Have you ever read any documents where the intelligence has been procured through torturous means?”

Small (pointing at numeral on clock): five! TandJ (harmony): WOW! How did that happen?

Some entertaining stuff for the holidays. The Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff you didn’t know

…. on teletubbies 😉 Dick and Dom appear convinced it’s Christmas, what’s that about? Horrid program. One child getting dressed, one parent getting clean, another blogging. I’m not prepared but none of you are surprised by that. Next year is going to be different in lots of ways. I like Merry’s tag, I’ll do that […]

I said: “So have you got everything packed?” “Darling, I haven’t even got everything out of the washing machine yet.”

CBC News Many young girls like to mutilate and “torture” Barbie dolls, including popping off their heads and microwaving them, a British study suggests. Researchers at the University of Bath have been analyzing the effects of product branding and marketing on more than 100 children aged seven to 11. They found that, of all the […]

DVDs, radio programmes, tv shows with door bell sounds or phones ringing. Radio ads with sirens in. :rant:

‘Only 100 words’ needed to read According to a Beeb article “England’s strategy for teaching children to read could be overloading them with superfluous words, researchers have suggested.”