I’m sat here listening to Frank Black s first (and best) album for the first time in almost a decade, and browsing New Scientist.
They’ve got one of those hideous Flash banner ad trainwrecks that makes you want to browse it in lynx. Seriously, I can’t even see half the site from Ubuntu with Firefox. One thing I did just see was a gooooooogle ad for The Surface of The Sun. The link text says ‘the suns surface is made of metal and conducts electricity!’.
I followed the links, and the images are from the SOHO observation satellite, and are probably pukka. I mean, red giants synthesize iron don’t they, and ’metal’ is a pretty wide category.
My bullshit detector is on the blink at the minute, and I don’t know whether newscientist get to vet the ads gooooooooogle put on their site. For all I know its’ another ‘Time Cube’ site. (Considering I have a degree in this stuff, that’s a bit worrying. Like I said, I’m a bit short of sleep this month.)
What? The point? Oh yeah, sorry. We were at a barbecue with my 2 year old over the weekend and she and her mate were playing a game which involved catching falling stars and eating them. I asked her what they tasted like, and she said ‘metal’. Just like Jesus .
Oooh! I love this one!
Paaaarry the wind – high, loooow….