Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-6-2009

Anyone got any good lists of real places named after fictional ones?

(tags: pratchett UK cities Discworld)

If you've ever wondered about the whole Eostre/Easter thing then here's a rather good debunking of it.

(tags: Easter myth stories)

With 80% efficiency in the electricity->gas->electricity cycle this has a _lot_ of potential...

(tags: power electricity green)

Download the AutoCAD designs, mod them how you like, and chuck them at a local engineers that have a laser cutter.

(tags: design opensource)

And no, that's not a p...

(tags: linguistics english)

Hundreds of food outlets will start displaying calorie information on menus later this month. he companies taking part are: Burger King, Compass Group, Co-operative supermarket cafes, ISS Mediclean (which runs canteens in hospitals), KFC, Marks and Spencer Revive Cafes, Merlin Entertainment (which runs outlets for Chessington World of Adventures), Mitchell and Butlers (which provides food for Harvester and Scream pubs), Pizza Hut, Pret a Manger, Sainsbury's cafes, Sodexo (which runs outlets in military barracks), Subway, Unilever staff canteens, Waitrose cafes, 7 Day Catering (which provides food for colleges), and Wimpy.

(tags: health diet UK food)

Huzah for Science!

(tags: science biology)

On the events of the G20 summit, the police reaction, and the media coverup.

(tags: news politics UK police)