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This particular article from the CAR Magazine website seems relevant…

Eco Cars Named And Shamed

A new report today exposes the real green cars - and there’s not a hybrid in sight in the top 10, according to researchers at Cardiff University.

Conventionally engined superminis dominate the top ranks. The scientists gave half their score based on each cars’ emissions of CO2, NOx and other pollutants; the other half of the score was calculated from vehicles’ construction, energy costs, recyclability and size. The higher the score, the cleaner the car:

• 1st Smart Roadster - 66.2 points
• 2nd Smart Fortwo Cabriolet - 59.8
• 3rd Citroen C1 1.0 - 40.1
• 4th Peugeot 107 1.0 - 38.6
• 5th Citroen C1 1.4 HDI - 31.3

Oh yes…

For the whole article, including the full top twelve cars, click here…

Very much later than it should have been, here is the Late March update to the Premiership Position Predictor!

The scores below include the swaps made by several players and are current as of just after Man U’s 4-0 win over Aston Villa this evening. Scores are out of 1000.

1. Karl - 895pts
2. Murph - 883pts
3. Steve - 866pts
=4. Helen - 856pts
=4. Alex - 856pts
6. Kymee - 789pts
7. Colin - 771pts
8. Rob - 770pts
9. Gay - 758pts
10. Kyle - 749pts
11. Alfie - 459pts

So with six games to go I move into a slight lead, but it must be remembered that as it’s all down to position correlations scores can go up as well as down…

To see past Premiership Position Predictor posts click here, and I’ll try and update weekly as the season draws to its exciting climax!

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Meanwhile, this is taken from the PM Newsletter :

Hello.

In the programme tonight: will Heather Mills go to work for the Daily Express? What would Diana think of the McCann judgement? Will washout Easter affect Express sales? What will judgement do to value of McCann house? Was Maddy taken by asylum seekers?

Also in the programme: (Continues…)

I can’t help but smile…

There was one bit of the movie Be Kind Rewind that I knew about long before I watched it, even though I’d only half watched one trailer before going to see it. It’s the bit where Jack Black’s character Jerry sings his version of the Ghostbusters theme tune in their ’sweded’ version of that movie. For some reason I’d heard the following words sung over and over and over again on the way to the cinema…

“When you’re walking down the street, and you see a little ghost, what you gonna do about Ghostbusters?”

I’ve vixyed (new word!) the clip to an mp3 file. Feel free to download the Be Kind Rewind Ghostbusters mp3 here…and let it enter your mind!

sat in this chair before the world is awake. Again…

It’s driving me mad, and I have no idea whatsoever what’s causing it.

It would help if I knew what to do about it, but as I don’t know where it’s coming from I don’t.

I’ve been awake since half one this morning because of it, and there’s no sign that it’ll be gone by tonight…

*sighs*

We went to London yesterday to see the Tutankhamun Exhibition at The O2. It was my first visit to the Millennium Tent and it didn’t seem as big on the outside as I’d imagined. I did think it rather tardis-like though. The exhibition was good, even if some of the pieces they’re marketing it with aren’t in London. If you want quantity then the British Museum is better (and cheaper to at free vs £10-£20) but at least with this exhibition every piece is quality. There are no walls of ancient pot fragments at The O2… I shall be back in ten days time with school, and I don’t mind at all.

Ancient Egyptian historians might consider this sacrilege, but the thing that impressed me as much as anything whilst at The O2 was The Peninsula Spire. I’d link to some info on it if such a page existed, but surprisingly it doesn’t. Much Googling tells me it was “designed by London-based architects Barr Gazetas and structural engineers Whitbybird, and made in Switzerland.” and that at 45m high the stainless steel spire is taller than The Royal Albert Hall. There seems to only be some promotional and technical information available on the internet which is a shame for something so stunning. I particularly liked the way the 166 degree twist made the bright sunlight catch it in the two different places as the angle lined up the sun with my eyes. There’s a moody picture of it here that I quite like, and below is the one I took.

Why can’t there be more beautiful things like this in modern architecture?