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Spanish wind turbines kill "6 million to 18 million birds and bats annually".

Doctor Who Van Gogh t-shirt, by Truffle Shuffle

Best Photo of the Month

The next Total War game will be Rome 2!

A Song of Ice and Fire and Minecraft

Lifeguard fired for helping drowing man

Evolution of the F1 Car 1950 - 2012 (really nice piece of animated graphic design)

Explaining the British government's economic policies and the current economic situation.

Neil Gaiman is working on a Sandman prequel.

Christopher Tolkien's first interview in something like forty years. He was a cantankerous old fart then. Do you think he's improved...?

The first photo ever uploaded to a website. (You mean you didn’t know that CERN has its own girl band? And what’s more, they’re pretty good. And now would totally be a good time for a commercial release for “Mr Higgs”.)

Comments

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

That lifeguard story shows you how limited a private company providing a public service can be if the management are more interested in money than service provision, the management don't like people going beyond the terms of the contract and fail to see that if the lifeguard was saving the man on his contractual patch then he still wouldn't be able to save anyone else, and exemplifies why a lot of coppers don't like the back-door privatisation of policing here that G4S's supporters in the current administration are trying to push through.