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BBC news has started blogging. Nick Robinson is the first with I’m sure many more to come. Interestingly it is being hosted by Six Apart, and I would guess is a custom version of Movable Type running it. Hurrah for not completely re-inventing the wheel.

I was watching BBC news earlier tonight and on two occasions I could have sworn I was watching The Day Today. One was accompanying a story on government policy. The other was showing a montage of pictures during another piece. They were all the wrong perspective and looked like they had been stuck on the screen. I half expected the graphics to zoom in then out and then morph into the shape of a horse, that then trots off the screen. Surely there are more that enough skilled people whom can come up with something a little more polished.

I normally avoid any campaigns like the plague, but this problem really addressing.

Jamie’s School Dinners is all about making radical change to the school meals system and challenging the junk food culture by showing schools can serve fresh nutritious meals that kids enjoy eating. Below are some brief stats:

Kids are getting fatter. 15% of all kids under 11 are now obese. Fatter children are more likely to stay obese into adulthood, leading to serious health problems. Scientists believe this may be the first generation to die before their parents due to ill health.

More and more of children’s daily food intake is snack rather than meal based. Inevitably, this means a diet biased towards unhealthy foods. And many young kids don’t know how to lay a table or use a knife and fork.

Teachers report that bad behaviour peaks around lunchtime, after kids have just eaten processed food high in sugar, salt, fat and a cocktail of other additives. Growing scientific evidence suggests that a junk food diet has a negative effect on behaviour.

So now get on and sign the petition, then pass it on and tell everyone you know.

U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup. Trade in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, KurdsHigh on the Bush administration’s list of justifications for war against Iraq are President Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons, nuclear and biological programs, and his contacts with international terrorists. What U.S. officials rarely acknowledge is that these offenses date back to a period when Hussein was seen in Washington as a valued ally.The full story. More interesting reading …

Kevin Sites is a CNN correspondent, often working as a one man unit, using portable, digital technology to report, write, edit and transmit his stories from conflict areas around the world. He has reported from war zones in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.Using audblog and his somewhat more reliable satellite phone connection to speak his blog posts, Kevin’s able to share these quick, immediate first-hand reflections of what it’s like to be a reporter covering the apparently imminent conflictYou can view the blog here at whomwah as well via my aggregator

All around the world marches have been held against the Bush administration plans for war against Iraq.

• London 1 million
• 200.000 in Sydney
• In San Francisco an estimation of 150.000 people
• New York 400.000
• Rome 1 million
• Berlin 500.000

An estimation of 30 million people world wide have demonstrated their opinion. Enough for BUSH. Lets hope.Here’s a link to a Fullscreen QTVR of London’s march.

Here’s a link to a British company that can supply a motorcycle hearse and rider for either a religious or non religious service. As with a traditional cortege families travel in the funeral director’s limousines or with their own vehicles. Blimey..see their site here

If you haven’t muttered this yourself, then you’ve probably met someone who has. This column offers some tips collected on ways to work with such concerns, both with Macromedia Flash and other online advertising. John Dowdell has written this interesting article on the subject over at Macromedia’s website. See here

Something to think about. More 911 conspiracy theries.

Imagine a CD with a storage capacity not of 650 MB but 650 million MB. Such a storage capacity is theoretically possible because of experiments using individual atoms to store data.Read More Here.