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So the Environment Agency has commissioned a survey and come out with the statement that up to 41% of people in the UK are unaware of the risk of flooding to their homes.

So who holds this information about who’s at risk of flooding? Guess what, it’s the Environment Agency.

The blindingly obvious question is: Why doesn’t the Environment Agency just tell these people they are at risk – problem solved without wasting time and tax payers’ money on pointless surveys?

Another case of bad spelling. This means that sign maker has not checked it before leaving the works, and the owner hasn’t checked it before putting it up.

Here is an excellent interactive map of Europe from the BBC, showing the changes over the last 100 years.
This is the sort of thing which should be taught in school.

This is a gem.

President Bush’s Library Destroyed by Fire

Added some more pics in the ‘About Horwich‘ section of our gallery.

Ever wondered where all that spam is coming from? Take a look at Mailinator’s Spam Map.

They have mapped the geo-lookup of the IP addresses in their received spam against google‘s maps.

Doesn’t seem to be much there at the moment, and I suppose that distributed bot nets won’t show up because they wouldn’t make it into the top list.

I was surprised to see the one in London was one of uk2.net‘s mail servers.

Postscript: Brian Pipa who wrote the code for the Spam Map contacted me about the above image, asking which browser/OS was used (Mac OS X/Safari), as the formatting was not as it should look.

What is it with Americans and coffee? A visitor from another planet watching American film and television would be led to believe that coffee was a class A drug.

They seem obsessive about how much they drink and how it should not be given to anyone under 21. Everyone who drinks it seems to be strangely affected. Is this the same coffee we drink in the UK, or does it have some other ingredient?

Apple declares war on Nigels

Absolute classic! Typical merkins.

Our Beer
Which are in barrels
Hallowed be thy drink
Thy will be drunk
I will be drunk
At home as in the local
Forgive us this day our daily spillage
As we forgive those who spill against us
And lead us not into the practice of poncey wine tasting
And deliver us from alco-pops
For mine is the bitter
The ale and the lager
Forever and ever
BARMEN

Apparently, Vodafone have sent my PAC code (Number Portability Authorisation Code) to my old address. I only moved 2 and a half years ago!

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