Early vote for one of the albums of 2008: the brilliant British Sea Power’s Do You Like Rock Music is a tour de force. Check out the above video for one of the best tracks, Waving Flags. And if you like that, Remember Me is another great song and a clever video.
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So much for sitting down to watch It’s A Wonderful Life with a mega bar of Bourneville. Medical journal The Lancet has ruined Christmas by stating that dark chocolate isn’t as good for you as all those “85% pure organic cocoa”-hyped bars would have you believe.
“Dark chocolate rich in flavanols can have cardiovascular benefits compared with coca-free control chocolate, but can be unbalanced by fat levels, sugar, and calories,” says The Lancet. “But dark chocolate can be deceptive. When chocolate manufacturers make confectionery, the natural cocoa solids can be darkened and the flavanols, which are bitter, removed, so even a dark-looking chocolate can have no flavanol. Consumers are also kept in the dark about the flavanol content of chocolate because manufacturers rarely label their products with this information.”
Bah humbug, gimme that box of Quality Street … and the big purple ones are mine!
Merry Christmas one and all!
Regular readers (how grandiose after a week’s blogging! – that will be you three sniggering at the back, then) will notice a couple of new features. I love the Sonific widget which is free and allows you to customise your own playlist from their eclectic library. They don’t have much mainstream stuff – which is not a bad thing as there are some real hidden gems in there. I will try and refresh this playlist frequently.I have also added links to previous posts, your comments and links to some of the other blogs I follow as well as some of my favourite podcasts. I was going to add the strangely addictive Twitter but I haven’t really got the hang of that yet – and there only seems to be me and The Limey trying to use it. Check out Phil’s site if you want to see how it works and follow his random thoughts during the day. Be great to have the Island a-Twittering next year. Even better to have The Good Doctor Ewart signed up so we can keep tabs on him!Thanks for all your comments (no, really – I have had a surprising number of messages drop in my inbox this week). Glad you enjoy the blog – and keep the comments coming.
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