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Not as enthused about getting going this morning, and I think I've discovered an extra sense. Yes, lying there in bed, eyes closed, I can tell how much cloud cover there is, and I can measure it by my own willingness to get up. On days of 1/8 or zero cloud cover, I spring out of bed cheerful and ready to take on anything. Up to about 6/8, there are varying degrees of waning enthusiasm. At 7/8, there is a fair chance that I'll consider another half hour's sleep. And at full cloud cover, I really have to force myself out of bed, force myself to move, force myself to dress... and I'm a nice guy, I don't like forcing anything, and I'm also a stubborn bloke, who doesn't like being forced. It's not a happy combination.

Now. Must pack SCA gear, if I can, remember to wrap inannajones' birthday present at some point today, and haul my slow self out that door.

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Earth hits '2,000 year warming peak'. Well, no kidding. But what amused me was one of the sceptics' explanations as to why the Thames no longer freezes over.

"They also reinterpret the fact that the river Thames used to freeze over more often, saying the design of the original London Bridge affected the river and made it freeze more easily."

Brilliant grasp of fluid dynamics there, guys. Next time I need ice for a party, I'll just drop a miniature of London Bridge in 1850 in some water, shall I?

Water will not freeze unless the temperature drops below zero, and stays there. Moving water will not freeze unless it stays there for some time. And moving water will definintely not freeze long enough for skaters to go on the ice until it's been below zero for many days. London no longer gets these conditions, and unless the original London Bridge turned the Thames from moving water into still water, it's not going to have had much effect.

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The Museum of Water Guns.

Ethical?

Here's a fun one: An organisation who pay drug addicts to have sterilisation operations.

What do ye think - ethical, or kicking them when they're down?