June 21st 2003 - July 1st 2003
ON HOLIDAY
June 16th 2003 - June 20th 2003
Friday I'm off
Thursday Owlish
Wednesday Hot dog
Tuesday Arresting news
Monday Twinned
Friday 20th June 2003
Not that you'll notice, given my erratic posting patterns lately, but Blogadoon will be off-air for the next ten days or so - I'm taking a well-earned, long-overdue, barely-affordable holiday.
See you when I get back.
Thursday 19th June 2003
A correlation between a difference in the length of a so-called clock gene and being a night owl was described yesterday in the journal Sleep.
The gene, Period 3, forms part of our internal body clock, and comes in two variants, one short and one long. Dr Simon Archer, lead author, said: "We discovered that the shorter variant of the gene is significantly more common in people with an extreme evening preference.
Prof Jo Arendt, senior member of the team, said: "It is tempting to speculate that one day some people might choose their lifestyle according to their clock genes."
Er, hello?
Wednesday 18th June 2003
Headline Challenge
Your task: to write a headline of 20 characters or less for this story:
Russell Lee Ebersole, 43, had boasted that he had revolutionised dog training, creating animals so highly skilled that they could tell their handlers which drug they had detected by pointing to plastic letters of the alphabet with their noses.
After a tip-off to an anti-fraud hotline, private detectives hired by the Federal Reserve drove three vehicles up to entrances at three Reserve buildings, crammed with explosives. Ebersole's dogs failed to notice anything amiss.
Another dog fell under suspicion when it did not detect a powerful smell of marijuana drifting across a Washington street. In subsequent tests, he was so distracted by the smell of a hidden hot dog he refused to work.
Whilst doing that, contemplate this headline from today's Independent; could it be that there really is a phenomenon called girth birth? Or is some sad sub somewhere sitting staring at his P45?
Tuesday 17th June 2003
Monday 16th June 2003
In terms of surreal trivia (and, Lord knows, there's been a lot of competition lately), the highlight of an entirely pleasant day at the RVT - spent largely nattering on the knoll - has to be the shiver of excitment that swept through the shirtless gathered clans, like hens in a fox-stalked coop, when two exotic ethnic figures were spotted passing deep in conversation on the path below: the O2 twins.
(Note for furriners: The O2 sponsorship flashes that bracket the commercial breaks between each segment of the current episodes of Big Brother feature two Indian guys sharing a wacky moment or two - homo-erotic with a small h.
A net-search for further information on these nano-celebrities proves remarkably unproductive, beyond the single bald fact that they were due to appear this Saturday and Sunday at the Mobile Life exhibition at Earl's Court.
So quite what they were doing, several postal districts away, ambling past London's largest open-air gathering of gay men...is anybody's guess.)
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