Archive for July, 2006

Pollution

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Another list! Finally! OK, this is a list of the most and least polluting cars in the world for 2006:
Least Polluting

Honda Insight (57MPG)
Honda Civic GS (32MPG)
Toyota Prius (55MPG)
Honda Civic Hybrid (50MPG)
Toyota Corolla (36MPG)
Hyundai Accent (33MPG)
Kia Rio (33MPG)
Honda Civic (35MPG)
Mazda 3 (32MPG)
Toyota Matrix (Pontiac Vibe) (33MPG)
Chevrolet Cobalt (30MPG)
Saturn Ion (30MPG)

Most Polluting

Dodge Ram SRT 10 (10MPG)
Lamborghini Murchielago […]

The Heat, Ponds And Comments

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

OK, lets take this in a very odd order. Firstly: ponds. 2 years ago I found one in our garden and finally it has been filled up with water, so now we’re building a waterfall. At the moment it looks like it’s about to fall over, and thats because it probably will. This is due […]

UK Googlers

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

During May, these were the most popular search terms put into Google by people from the UK:

big brother
bbc news
amazon
autotrader
bbc sport
wikipedia
easyjet
bitesize
dictionary
lost
cbeebies
currency converter
national lottery
eastenders
arsenal

When you look at these results, they are quite shocking. 6 of those results are found on the BBC website, and a further 2 on the Channel 4 site. Almost half of the searches […]

Colours

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

I made this random little Flash movie in about 10 minutes. Completely accidentally it has reminded me of the weird rainbow experiment we did in chemistry, before we started blowing things up.
Click here to see it.
You might need to click on it first to get it to do anything, especially if you are using Windows […]

You’re Pitiful

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

The brilliant Weird Al Yankovic has released a new song, a parody of James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful. The lyrics are as follows:
My life is brilliant
[What, was I too early -
Oh, sorry, should I -
Do you want to start over, or -
Keep going - okay… now, now?]
My life is brilliant
Your life’s a joke
You’re just pathetic
You’re always broke
Your […]