I know I should say something, but ?

This is one strong piece of work in just about every way..

Courtesy of one of my other pet projects FestivalShirts come these countdown timers for Electric Picnic and Oxegen.

If you’re a festival goer, chances are you’re going to one of these festivals (if not both!), now you can count the seconds left until you can let loose and go crazy. Both festivals are sold out, and both have incredible line ups. I’m going to Electric Picnic myself, the lineup for Oxegen is great but I prefer the eclectic nature of the Electric Picnic lineup.

As I overheard on a forum recently:

I went the Electric Picnic way. More to my liking as I don’t want to go and spend a couple of days listening to radio 1 live.

Grab the code to put these countdown timers in your sidebar.

They’re only 180pixels wide so they should fit in most sidebars. They look like this:

Enjoy!

I saw this a while back but couldn’t remember where, then I found it again today. Some people have been saying it for years, but it’s good to have some scientisty people going on about it. It’s a study challenging the UK’s drugs classifications. Read about it in the Telegraph or see the proposed table at Howstuffworks.

howstuffworks:

A study surveying health, crime and science professionals regarding the dangers of a set of 20 legal and illegal drugs, published in The Lancet in March 2007, found that alcohol and tobacco, which are legal in Britain and the United States, are considered by experts to be more dangerous than ecstasy and marijuana, which are illegal in both countries.

I don’t drink - or smoke tobacco. And it pisses me off that if I wanted to take the recreational drug of MY choice I’d have to break the law. It makes no sense when as Mike Skinner will tell you, it’s more likely to be alcohol drinkers that will wreak havok on themselves and others than, for example, marijuana users. C’mon Gaybo, don’t let them shut you up that easily.

howstuffworks:

“Tobacco and alcohol together account for about 90 percent of all drug-related deaths in the U.K.” Yet both of those substances are legal. In the United States, a study published in the journal of the American Medical Association in 2000 shows that 95 percent of drug-related deaths in the United States are from alcohol and tobacco use.

And just in the spirit of fariness, i should include the following quote. Then I’ll hand you over to Mike Skinner.

howstuffworks:

Of course, the legal status of drugs like alcohol and tobacco skews the results. Their legal status makes them far more available, so an accurate side-by-side comparison with a drug like heroin on all three criteria is impossible. Availability will always affect social effects of any given drug.

Ah the hours I spent playing Super Mario… very badly I might add. However I was pretty good with Lego. Somebody had the decency to bring these two things together at last. This post is dedicated to Bob Byrne & Mr Amperduke.