Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Not so Much rain, a Bit of a Breeze. . .

Well, it's official! The Eurovision Song Contest is rigged!

The Daily Mail :

"It's something anyone who has watched Greece award Cyprus the maximum 12 points and Great Britain a pitiful 'nul points' has long usupected - voting in the contset is rigged.
Scientists have found numerous countries have formed strategic partnerships which skew the results, and at least twice it has resulted in the wrong nation winning.
(I'll go on as I can't find this article online) The voting scandal was uncovered through analysis of all the results for the last 30 years.
Computer programmer Derek Gatherer (cool name), from the Medical Reesarch Council in Glasgow (oh so that's what they do all day in Glasgow!), has shown there is a large-scale collusion between groups of countries (can anyone guess which one's those are?!). He ran computer simulations to find what the past results would have been if the countries had voted without bias, this week's New Scientist reports. (clever)
The most long-standing partnership - and the most well-known - is that between Greece and Cyprus, an alliance that can be traced as far back as 1986.
In the early Nineties, Ireland colluded with the Netherlands, Malta and Croatia - a union that may go a long way to explain its hat-trick of wins between 1992 and 1994.
Britain which has not lifted the title since 1997 when Katrina and the Waves triumphed with the ballad Love Shine a Light, has not colluded in voting since a brief flirtation with France in the late Seventies. (Shame on us!)

Enough of that. But we all knew about that all along, just nice to have proof for a change. I wonder what's going to happen this year in the Contest now all of this is out? And so what! It's a load of old tosh, a huge joke from top to bottom, but who can miss Terry Wogan's cynical comments every year?! Huh?!!!!

Weather seems to be slightly improving for Easter, it could be 16 degrees C on Easter day. A likely story.

I see no-one commented on the Circus Elephant film. Please watch it.

Red Hot Chili Peppers have released their new single, to read view and scroll down on that page to watch video, click here. Typical Peppers but pretty good (sighs, as always)

And some cool games (well, kind of) There is no direct link but all the games are on this page so Click here

For those who hate cats this is for you (Er, Mr and Mrs MacNeill. . .) Cat - Vac and Cat-a-pult
And the usual Tetris and Space Invaders, the Nemo game is quite odd.

I can't think of much else to add, and I'm going to go off now and 'surf' the net and if I come across anything else I'll post it!

Love to all,

Emy xxx

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