Skinny white house on hill in Port Isaac.

I spied this building when I was watching Doc Martin. Which is, as you undoubtedly know,  an English sit-com located in . . . well I've forgotten now. . .  Cornwall.  PORT ISAAC.

Anyway, it was a great pan-shot of the fishing village. & and one way and another, finding the name of the town, which slips my mind right now,  I finally found the very house in this image,  above, WHAT I DIDN'T TAKE.   But can't attribute it to anyone 'cos I've now lost the link. I think.

Anyway.

I love architecture. Cool building huh?

Ok better do better

Start:

Doc Martin

Port Isaac- google images

looking, looking, looking

That's it, gotta be.

looking, looking, looking
Oooh looky, another one.

Bit of context

Such a cool building.

So in the end , I dunno who took these images of the skinny white house.  But good on 'em.

Nim Chimsky

"With a chimpanzee, I don’t think there’s any awareness of one’s own mind and another mind out there. That means you can’t have any concept in a chimpanzee of a self and other." 

I.e, no ego.

“If you put young human children with chimpanzees, they make wonderful playmates,” de Waal told me. “They understand each other perfectly because their body language is the same — there’s an enormous similarity.”

I.e, no or very little ego.  Story here

and if you're really bored by now

Quote of the week.

George Monbiot writes in this weeks' guardian: (link)

The latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency shows that Tepco, the firm that ran the stricken plant at Fukushima, had under-estimated the danger of tsunamis, had not planned properly for multiple plant failures and had been allowed to get away with it by a regulator that failed to review its protective measures. Nuclear operators worldwide have been repeatedly exposed as a bunch of arm-twisting, corner-cutting scumbags.


In this respect they are, of course, distinguished from the rest of the energy industry, which is run by collectives of self-abnegating monks whose only purpose is to spread a little happiness. How they ended up sharing the names and addresses of some of the nuclear companies is a mystery that defies explanation. The front-page story in Friday's Guardian quoted "former government environmental adviser" Tom Burke saying the following about the government's relationship with the nuclear companies. "They are too close to industry, concealing problems, rather than revealing and dealing with them." What the article did not tell us is that Burke currently works for Rio Tinto, one of the world's biggest coal-mining corporations. It has, of course, always refrained from colluding with governments.

All the big energy companies – whether they invest in coal, oil, gas, nuclear, wind or solar power – manipulate politicians, bully regulators and bamboozle the public.

The thrust of this article concerns itself with nuclear power and is 'pro' thereof. But this is not the point in my quoting such a swathe. Maybe I'm quoting out of context . . . but I think it's an interesting obervation about the nature of energy companies in general. You can undoubtedly add telecommunicaition companies, media organisations etc, loose amalgamations of large corporations who throw their two-bob in the ring to help launch anti-government i.e, anti-people, propaganda, cyring poor mouth about a little extra cost to help save the planet, (which they fully intend to pass on) (anyway)


But according to the delightful Cynthia Carroll, CEO of Anglo-American Coal: (link)

Governments in mineral-rich countries must steer clear of the "blind alleys" of nationalisation and excessive tax if they want to attract continued investment from global miners, Anglo American Chief Executive Cynthia Carroll said on Thursday

Meanwhile: (link)

Speaking in London last night, the chief executive of Anglo American took unambiguous public umbrage at the Gillard government's carbon tax, characterising its emission pricing initiative as a response to short-term fiscal pressures "coated . . . with a misleading environmental veneer".


Carroll announced to a room populated by fellow mining executives and, more importantly, the rich cream of London's fund management industry, that the time had arrived to stop being either politic or polite about this, that the mining industry needed to stand firm and protect and defend its immediate economic interests and its broader reputation.

David Marr got wonderfully stuck into these monolithic giants who have seen the price of coal triple in the last 18 months, saying their cyring poor mouth was comedic. And I guess it would be funny if it t'wernt so breathtakingly evil.