Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-20-2009

[andrewducker]

• At the centre of time - how Greenwich Mean Time came to be.
  (tags: science time UK)
• How Spanish eating habits have adapted to the recession.
  Mmmm, tapas.
  (tags: food Spain)
• Our oldest ancestor may have been a proton-powered rock.
  Turning our understanding of the origins of life upside down.
  (tags: evolution life biology science dna bacteria ocean)
• Man in wheelchair left on Snowdon.
  After the next election this will be the new method of dealing with the disabled...
  (tags: EpicFail scotland mountains)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

That Greenwich article, and the idea of standing with one foot in the east and one in the west (which I remember doing as a kid on my first visit to London) reminds me of one of my favourite pub trivia questions: Without looking at a map, which two of the UK's four capital cities lie almost exactly north-south of each other?

[andrewducker]

*guesses*
*checks*
*is wrong*

:->

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

hehe - it's amazing how many folks do get it wrong. And I bet I know what you guessed too...

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Cardiff and Edinburgh? Because I know Edinburgh is east of Bristol, at any rate.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Have a point! :)

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Why is your Snowdon article tagged "Scotland" when it's in Wales and the man in question was from England?

EpicFail! :p

[andrewducker]

It was, um, a test of, er, the reading ability of the audience?

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

lol. It's really not your day today, is it?

[draconid.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone else commented on this... I was beginning to think it was I that was going mad.

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

Snowdon has moved to Scotland, I see.

ETA: see I'm not the first to spot that, sorry.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

"who they said was cold"

Understatement of the year, one suspects ...