Links for 2008-11-06: Kate Moss, if you take a magnifying lens and choose an unflattering angle, apparently her legs look their age; Ulrika Jonsson wonders how to protect her daughter in a society that sexualises children (hm, choose a different career?). Read the rest of this entry »
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Caught my eye: links for 2008-11-06
November 6, 2008Caught my eye: links for 2008-11-05
November 5, 2008Links for 2008-11-05: Kate Beckinsale is startled that some women are obsessed with body image, in her latest photoshoot; beauty creams with nanoparticles may damage your skin. Read the rest of this entry »
Caught my eye: links for 2008-11-04
November 4, 2008Links for 2008-11-04: memories of the moonwalk and an insight into the excitement of the time; Austerity Issue, an examination of rationing and the Mass Observation project; Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists. Read the rest of this entry »
Caught my eye: links for 2008-11-02
November 2, 2008Links for 2008-11-02: don’t have road signs printed in languages with which the printers are unfamiliar. Read the rest of this entry »
Caught my eye: links for 2008-11-01
November 1, 2008Links for 2008-11-01: usual inappropriate comparisons of ‘O’ levels in individual science subjects from papers in the 1960s compared with modern-day basic module in GCSE general science and used to ridicule contemporary students; Jackson Browne’s “Don’t confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them”. Read the rest of this entry »
Caught my eye: links for 2008-10-31
October 31, 2008Links for 2008-10-31: students who cheat at Cambridge University – Google and Wikipedia are the friends of students who are strapped for time and practitioners of situational ethics; Eleanor Coade and the origins of Coade stone; Duchess of York is mocked for allegedly uneven foundation use; apparently, after a transatlantic flight, Kate Moss looked her age – shock; just how much energy do various appliances use? Read the rest of this entry »
Caught my eye: links for 2008-10-30
October 30, 2008Links for 2008-10-30: calculator for running costs of electric appliances; Yellow House project to make a 1930s house more energy efficient; online versions of historical cookbooks from USA; the worldliness of the the tomato; banana, pineapple and tinned salmon salad; timeline of the history of food; when is it acceptable to deceive people for TV programmes like Gok Wan’s latest? Read the rest of this entry »
Caught my eye; links for 2008-10-28
October 28, 2008Links for 2008-10-28: Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970; The Gallery of Regrettable Food; The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan: Classic Diet Recipe Cards from the 1970s; Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery; Vikings Bathed Before Pillaging – righting a historical wrong; Transplanted cornea in use for record 123 years; The Virtual Dime Museum: A Grand Skatorial Boom; recommended recipes for laundry day; Unbelievably revolting recipes with bananas and other foul, disgust invoking combinations; guns and vegetables with yet more lookalike scenarios from Domestic Science exams. Read the rest of this entry »
Caught my eye: links for 2008-10-27
October 27, 2008Links for 2008-10-27: a recipe book for Spam sparks memories of Domestic Science exams; Food Snob details the recent chocolate tasting menu at Almeida in London; ghastly recipes for party food from Foodarama; Lumigan may be available OTC as a drug to lengthen eyelashes. Read the rest of this entry »
Caught my eye: links for 2008-10-25
October 25, 2008Links for 2008-10-25: Guardian’s 1000 artworks to see before you die; Charlie Brooker on body shape consumerism coupled with bad manners and bullying. Read the rest of this entry »
