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I just love stories like these. At just 50 calories more than certain branded sports recovery drinks, a decent chocolate milk will get my vote every time. Better living through (popular) science.

Remember when you built your first web site? Remember how you thought it would be really cool to have all those images, blinking words and scrolling marquees? How you couldn’t resist using all of the design elements provided in the web page builder you were using? I had completely forgotten just what the results of all that can look like until my friend Andy pointed folks to his own doctor’s website. I laughed so hard the roofers working on our house came in to see what I was laughing at! Andy, I’d find another doctor.

Bike Blog by Jim Doherty has a great story about a bike jump starting a Toyota car.

I’m having a lazy Sunday morning, baking bread, reading RSS feeds, answering emails, listening to iTunes and playing with ecto, the Mac blogging client. As I was doing this Waiting In Vain from the album “Legend Remastered” by Bob Marley popped into my ears and completed my mood. Such a simple yet superb song.

Play by dustball is a great piece of fun and well worth the ‘load’ wait.

Another late evening and I’m tinkering with stuff that ain’t broke. Feeling the need for a change in email client, I’m currently experiencing the joy that is importing Mail.app maiboxes into Thunderbird. Readers with long memories will know that I do stuff like this on a fairly regular basis. For those idiotic enough to try this for themselves, I would advise that I am having so much trouble, I am now enabling ‘pop access from forever’ all my Gmail accounts and downloading all three accounts back catalogue from scratch. Like I say, I must be bonkers.

For those who have endless time on their hands, the Falling Sand Game might prove to be a diversion worthy of an hour or several. Nice piece of coding.

“I was drowned by Montgomery Clift, run over by both Alan Ladd and James Mason, knifed by Robert Mitchum and strangled by Ronald Colman … I couldn’t understand a word Michael Caine said, I just waited for the gaps and then said my lines.”

Two of many great quotes by the late Shelley Winters that makes me want to go and buy her kiss and tell autobiography.

That cranefly will be the next big thing is indisputable. The only things that are not clear are when, where, for whom and quite how it will all come about. In the meantime, the studio session and gig photos are great – if you’ve ever been in a band, you’ll know why – and the downloads will give you a flavour of something a little different. Though in no way musically the same, to my lo-fi ears cranefly are tapping the melodic vein of earlier times in much the same way as Grandaddy (listen to cranefly’s Knocked Down and then Grandaddy’s Pull the Curtains) has in the US and, to a lesser extent, Wolfmother are doing in Australia.

Until today, I had no idea that a smoot was a unit of length. I shall never see the ISO (International Standards Organisation) symbol again without thinking of Oliver Smoot.