The Observer has an interesting article about how Neil Dixon, a Chemistry teacher in the UK is doing hands-on demonstration of basic sciences for his students.

The trick, apparently is to make big explosions/fireballs using fairly mundane things: in this case, a bunsen burner and powdered milk.

Check out the photos, they’re actually pretty darn cool.

Gotta love this version of Wikipedia:

Do a search for “George Bush“, and you get:

• George Herbert Walker Bush, who was president from 1989 to 1993.
• George Walker Bush, who became president in 2001, is now president, and is the son of the other one.

What are terrorists? Well apparently the article is too complex (It doesn’t once use the phrase “they do bad things” or “they are bad people”)

The story I wrote about yesterday has made it to digg (little wonder with News.com.au having the digg icon on it).
digg - Vegemite banned in the United States.

Some funny comments on there:

“ojk007″ offers some helpful hints on how to eat vegemite:

How to eat vegimite!

1. Get a piece of bread or a cracker.
2. Spread as much on as possible. (the more you put on the better it tastes! Trust me im an Aussie!)
3. Eat as Slowly as possible.

A Funny thread on whether A Current Affair or Today Tonight would take up the story.

“Young Aussie battlers stripped of their pride through unnecessarily outrageous bans on Vegimite”

Angostura obviously has no idea what kind of fight they’re getting into, and should be divorced shortly:

Ah. As a Brit married to an Australian, you can imagine that there is an ongoing ah - discussion about Marmite v Vegemite. Marmite was the original, and Vegemite is essentially a watered down version created for the delicate ozzie palate.

/Flame on

… flame on indeed.

JHawk24821 starts a funny thread with this comment:

When I read that it was banned, the first thought that came to mind that it was somehow related to terrorism. I was asking myself how Vegemite could be seen as dangerous, then it occurred to me that someone probably took it on a plane, or tried to at least, and the airports nut balls thought it was a bomb.

Finally, jumanous has a rather pointed comment.

That has to be the most ridiculous thing I have heard all year!! You can have a rocket launcher or an AK47, but God forbid you eat Vegemite on toast. I have now officially heard it all.

I took this screenshot from my Google homepage on Friday:

Apparently someone at the BBC News Desk has a sense of humor…