Thursday, August 31, 2006

Blog Day 2006...

Apparently it's International today and it's all about the sharing...

1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting, preferably different from your own culture, point of view and attitude
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending on them on BlogDay 2006
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st)... etc etc (
Blog Day Website)
Like I've got time to do all that...

For a start, there's the whole "interesting" debate. I find about five blogs interesting, primarily because they are not different to my own culture, point of view and attitude, because they are written by my friends. But this probably makes me insular and short-sighted and monomaniacal, so I shall broaden my horizons and recommend...





Found this because she was wittering on about mobile phone masts and I thought she was doing so from an "I-don't-use-a-mobile" standpoint. She didn't, but now she does. So she uses a mobile but objects to the masts. Apparently, mobile phones worry her because "common sense tells me that they can't be good for you."

If you use a mobile phone at all, you can't object to the masts. Even if they're near you.

End of.

Well not quite, because you also have to eat nothing but raw food, be open to "infinite possibilities", discover your "soul purpose" and "upgrade your life"....

Blog off.





Yup, it's well-known right-wing Daily Mail/Moral Maze/Question Time rent-a-gob Melanie Phillips. I disagree with virtually everything she says, particularly when she witters on about how crap education is in this country.

She's got a bit bogged down recently by only slagging off anything she might consider pro-Islamic, mainly, I guess, to publicise her latest book, Londonistan. (Not providing a link, in vain attempt not to publicise it any more..)





Found by chance, Alice's Rabbit Hole. Great rant about Virgin Mobile customer service with points of agreement on pedantry and an admiration of Lynne Truss.





Number 4 is Nottinghamshire Notes, which I just happened to find when I was looking for pictures of Mansfield Market Place. I'm from Mansfield and I just spent a week there with my family, walked through the market place twice and didn't notice that they had done anything to it. I must pay greater attention next time.

It's also got links to places I know I ought to have been to again and haven't for ages. For example, the Crich Tramway Museum looks like there's more to it than when my Gran and Grandad took me there 30 years ago...





This is the badscience.net blog, by Dr Ben Goldacre who writes in the Guardian. It doesn't really follow the recommendation rules, as I agree with most of it. Particularly about Brain Gym and Gillian McKeith... (And about mobile phone masts...)



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