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Tone it down, gurus
India Knight on gurus and the fascination the public has with them. Why do we think they know everything and what they say is correct?
She cites Jo Frost, AKA Super Nanny as an example but I just saw one of her programmes, and it was scary how a two year old called Charlie controlled his family! Obviously the cameras are going to only show the Nanny in a good light but the advice she gave the family seemed sensible and had an improvement.
The Citreon Ad
Remember that cool Citreon ad with the dancing car? Go grab it while it’s still available!
How to Brush Your Teeth
John goes over the technique he uses to brush his teeth. I should spend more time on my teeth, as tooth ache really really hurts! Oooowwww!
I always assumed flossing was to remove the food particles from between your teeth, but I was informed the main reason for doing this is to remove the plaque build up underneath the gum line. In fact, even if you brush your teeth properly, you have only cleaned 60% of the tooth surface. This highlights just how important flossing is.
Carole Coleman: "I wanted to slap him"
Carole Coleman made headlines when she interviewed George Bush last year in the White House. Here was a reported who didn’t want to hear the same regurgated speel again and again.
In this extract, she tells why, I wanted to slap him, and recalls the aftermath of her intereview with “the leader of the free world” too.
(Side note.. nowhere is Carole COleman quoted as saying “I Wanted to slap him”, did the Times take creative license with the title of their lead story?)
Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan takes Bush on over his nomination of Harriet Miers to, “be one of only nice justices on the Supreme Court of the United States.”
Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace
This is why WordPress.com strips Javascript from posts. The potential for devilment is limitless without filtering!
Bush Left Behind
Via Yahoo News.. this perfectly composed photo of the US President:
(AFP/File/Paul Richards)
WordPress PHP validator
Hmm, this PHP validator could be a very useful start to creating a safe template editor for WordPress.
Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers
Unicef bombed the Smurf village in a new ad campaign to raise money. This has been doing the rounds for a few days and as one Metafilter userpointed out, “what’s sadder, bombed smurfs…or the fact that people are so unfased by bombed people that we have to resort to bombed smurfs…news at 11”.
Says something about our “caring” society.
Sunday Times – stories and articles
From last week’s Sunday Times:
- Sig Hansen – fisherman and skipper on the Berring Sea, one of the deadliest jobs in the world.
- The pen is mightier – how a pen saved the astronauts of Apollo 11 on the Moon!
- Sin cities – Britains’s inner city streets are awash with guns. Here’s the story how one minor incident ended up with the deaths of many and cost the police £5m to resolve.
- American royalty – What was it like to grow up surrounded by the Kennedy family? Christopher Keddy Lawford tell us. Part 2 was published this week.