* I got an email from a friend who must have chosen yesterday to visit my blog. The gist was 'Come on what do you mean nothing interesting happened, if you can't be bothered to post an entry then don't post one. Its a trivial world.., its a trivial post you mean. you sad ....' I won't bother with the unwarranted abuse from supposed friend.

* The scientists have discovered a flaw in the earth's crust, described by a scientist as : "an open wound on the surface of the Earth". Apparently the oceanic crust, usually 6-7km thick (3.7-4.3 miles), is simply not there. The crust does not seem to be repairing itself. He comments further : "Usually the plates are pulled apart and to fill the gap the mantle underneath has to rise up. As it comes up it starts to melt. That forms the magma, That's the normal process. Here it has gone awry for some reason. The crust does not seem to be repairing itself." The scientists intend to investigate this phenomenon.
Reading this I was struck that the 'wounded earth' was a suitable metaphor for the state of spaceship earth as the human race continues its attempt to completely desecrate the environment. Seems the earth has contracted some planetary form of MRSA.
Maybe its just some normal process that happens all the time, however it does have some resonance with the hole in the ozone layer.

* Digging up the dirt. I just got given a book which is a sort of celebrity bad behaviour book about intellectuals. Instead of looking at their ideas and the impact the ideas have had, it asks the question how does their behavior match up to their claims of dedication to the truth and the right. I dived in immediately and can tell you that today's celebtities are total rank amateurs and intellectuals leave these 'rehab' junkies miles behind. I've just finished 'Jean-Jaques Rousseau', what a bastard he was. He wrote a book on the raising and education of children, he had 5 children by his mistress and put them all straight into a state orphanage where the average life expectancy was about 12 months. He was also a free loader of epic proportions and it was a badge of honour never to say thanks. I think the following words used to describe him give you an idea : paranoiac; narcissistic; kleptomaniac; infantilist; irritable; miserly; self-pity, etc. He was the first to raise boorishness to a virtue, thus paving the way for the behaviour of todays celeb's. Someone described his popularity as the surest proof of the stupidity of mankind. Hey, what an accolade!