I can’t but laught at this one: Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog.

They ask me if I worry about the bird flu. Now I do.

“I think I’ll buy myself some plastic water” sang Ozzy Osbourne about a decade ago. Yet, bottled water has never really made any sense to me. Come to think of it, that actually may simply be because I was born in a country with virtually endless natural water supplies. In any case, National Geographic has an article about why Ozzy shouldn’t really go and buy that bottle of water.

As someone who has no real grasp of time, I need to pay attention to my surroundings in order to figure out what year, season, month, day or hour we are living in at any particular point in time.

Take for example Christmas, the coming of which you can predict from at least three sure signs:

1) People get increasingly annoyed and annoying.

2) You cannot possibly fit into a shop, and even if you can, you cannot stay there for longer than a few minutes because of the annoying Christmas tunes.

3) News about chocolate’s health effects (from a study sponsored by a major chocolate company) circulate on the web.

Today (or rather yesterday), all major science news websites carried this story about cocoa lowering your blood pressure. And still, I have been told by trustworthy sources, it is not Christmas yet. I am confused.

San Francisco is testing whether it makes sense to turn dog poo into energy. I’m sure that cities like Paris and Budapest would never have energy shortages if they just followed suit.

“Would you notice if all the objects around you simultaneously moved farther away? In a virtual-reality laboratory in Oxford, researchers have obtained the puzzling finding that humans can be “blind” to changes like this.” The EurekAlert article is here.