French elections

I realised I could just post my comments from the varioous forums I'm on as content for this blog, because they're the whole reason why I dried up here in the first place!

"By the way, the exit polls (non-official, but usually very reliable) gave:
- Sarkozy 30%
- Royal 25%
(these first two are through to the second round in a few weeks' time)
- Bayrou 18%
- Le Pen 11%
- all other candidates (all 8 of them) 16%

The absolute official report, which is expected to confirm these, is published on the evening of the 25th April.

It was the biggest turn-out for an election since 1981, with 84% of registered voters participating.
he good news is more than half the voters voted for the two candidates that got through ((30+25)>50), unlike in 2002 when there had been 16 candidates andthe top two only got like 35% of a poor turn-out between them.

Its expected that Sarkozy will get Le Pen's votes, Royal will get the 3 communist parties' and other socailist-ish's votes, and it'll all come down to how Bayrou's voters go.

(Anyone looking for the absolute best figures should check the french government's webpage.)"

Multilinguism at its best

Here's the speech Chris and Greg made to present themselves and our school to the other participants to Euroscola!

Theirs was waaaaaaay better than any of the others.

Hardly surprising...

Despite what his predecessor, the evil atheist John-Paul II, said, it seems Pope Benedict XVI ("Paparazzi" as he's known to the German press) has changed official Vatican policy about yet another thing: the theory of evolution by natural selection as a means to explain biodervsity, is no longer valid, apparently. James Randi reports and comments on the quotes here.

I suppose there's really no point in suggesting to him the other "alternative" to evolution, that is to say Flying Spaghetti Monster creationism.

FSM v IPU

Whenever you here of a holy war and any nobility such a cause might have, remember this atrocity.




My faith is wavering now,
The artists take their bow
I really don't know how
I'm to make up my mind
How can everyone be so blind?


Reminds me of Tenacious D.


Should probably post some original content one of these days...

KRK-SXB

The music we made...



I'm particularly proud of moment 2:00 and moment 5:21.

I had been planning to write a bit of a commentary for this, but I think that would spoil it a bit. If anyone gets round to asking for any specific details I'm sure I'll give them.