Buying a house on the net

Buying a house on the net

http://www.propertybroker.co.uk/

houseweb.co.uk

Watercress

anti-cancer treatment? 85g a day could inhibit and even kill cancer cells - it raises antioxidants.

There’s a Watercress Alliance which funded a two year study.

NHS database and Iceland

November 2006 - Icelanders opted out of deCODE’s database (Kari Stefansson) project with Hoffman LaRoche (which wanted to use the info to make drugs).

In UK this news was welcomed by Foundation for Information Policy Research.

Kodak Easyshare 10″ Wi-Fi Digital Picture Frame

Digital picture frames - how popular?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000MRAAB0/30000457-21/?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Printer cartridges - mx2.co.uk

Bon religion and Guge

Bon religion - Tibetan kingdom of Guge

http://www.bonfoundation.org/aboutbon.html

Japanese art student Goda wrote Tao: On the road and on the run in outlaw China - about travels with Cao Yong

Early 1980’s he travels to Guge - 17th century decomposing soldiers still lying around the city - 700 miles from Lhasa.

But his paintings look a bit straight. Has written a book - Escape ?

http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e2007/e200709/p34.htm

I miss the Diet Coke high

Sunday Times suggests substitutes:

Klamath blue-green algae. Vital Life pure organic Klamath blue-green algae (£12 for 60 capsules, Simply Vital: 0870 609 1180) - contains phenylethylamine (which might be part of why the Diet Coke is addictive - boosts dopamine). Take 4 capsules daily.

Also there’s Cinnachrome - www.healthproductsfor life.com - 1-3 capsules daily.

World’s oldest painting?

Possibly: A pebble from Sai on the Nile - 200,000 years ago - near Sudan. On display at National Museum, Khartoum.

Dust ‘comes alive’ in space

Interesting

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2241753.ece

Inorganic material can take on the characteristics of living organisms in space. Galactic dust forms into helixes and double helixes - a common structure that underpins all?

Interesting websites etc - Scribbled notes

The magic of internet - mystical

Gleason’s first law of politics

http://wherearethejoneses.com/ - online sitcom

Map alternative - http://www.192.com/

http://periscopeprojects.org/home.html

Parking tickets

http://appealnow.com/

Travel

http://www.wayn.com/

igougo.com

gusto.com

tripmates.com

tripconnect.com

holidaysuncovered.co.uk

holiday-truth.com

More music that’s supposed to be good

Supposed to be good:
The Gun Club - Da Blood Done Signed My Name

Beatles - rain

Bob Dylan - one too many mornings

Dylan - time out of mind (not dark yet etc), Nashville skyline, (hit single - Baby stop crying) - also Jokerman

Breeders - moutain battles

Frank Sinatra - Flim Flam etc

Also

The Birthday Party - Live 1981-82

Also

Derek Bailey - Standards

Barefoot in the Head
Sauter & Dietrich, Moore -
Liner notes to the album provided by Thomas Pynchon

Amarillo Ramp - Lee Ranaldo

The gift of tongues and Clouds - 2 albums - Ranaldo and Hooker

Sonic youth - Anagrama - Slaapkamers… and Invite Al Cielo Als: A thousand Leaves Also: Silver Session Also: Piece for Jetsun Dolma

coverfreak.com

Easy Star All Star’s - Paranoid Android 2006

Nightingales - what’s not to love

Hank Williams - live at the Grand Ole Opry

Han Bennink & Derek Bailey - post improvisation discs 1 and 2

Joy Division - Preston 28 Feb 1980

Harry Partch - www.corporeal.com

Martin Hayes - Dennis Cahill (live in seattle)

Don and Dewey - rock and roll

Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. I: Day of Niagara [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

The raincoats - The raincoats

Miles Davis - The birth of cool

Gerry Mulligan - night lights

Lennie Tristano - Crosscurrents

Gil evans - out of the cool

Bill evans - live at the village vanguard

Rick James - cold blooded

Smiley Lewis - I hear you knockin

Sonic Youth - SYR4 - Goodbye 20th

Ike Turner’s Rocket 88 (Jackie Brenston)

East River Pipe - The Gasoline age

Sufis - Sheikh Yaseen, Om Kalthoum, El Ranan, and Sadia Mohammed Ahmed Eid

Gnawa - Morrocan trance

u-ziq paradinas - Royal astronomy

Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden

Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden (UFAW Animal Welfare) (Paperback) by John Webster - published February 2005.

Humans like eating meat - but says - Professor of animal husbandry at Bristol - Webster, cows, for example, have a mental life.

Cows within a herd form friendships and bear grudges - and get excited by solving puzzles. They have a sense of self - and suffer - and seek pleasure. They and other farm animals, are individuals.

It seems that we don’t want to listen to Prof Webster - but animal welfare may have to be re-thought.

John Peel

I’m still throwing away bits of newspapers etc - just looking back at The Guardian newspaper - October 27 2004 - it includes John Peel’s obituary.

I was at Peel’s funeral for the BBC - I think I must have one of the only audio recordings of Gambaccini’s tribute to Peel (the Cathedral staff disconnected the feed cables, if I remember rightly)

I’ll have to dig my CD out - but in his tribute I’m sure Gambaccini said that Peel had probably listened to more recorded music than anyone alive, ever. A sad day - I’m not saying anything new here - but Peel really was a light in the darkness.