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Even on Valentine’s Day yesterday, when these photos were taken, probably nobody wanted to give this Frog King fountain at a playground a kiss…
Links of the Week (2010/5+6)
- More great photos at The Big Picture, this time from the Vancouver opening ceremonies.
- Personified Science writes another letter, this time to “alternative medicine” – incl. own therapeutic ideas.
20 Years Ago or
How to turn 5 digits into a song
20 years ago today, on 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from jail. Since then, he not just got the Nobel Peace Price, but also helps fighting AIDS with his 46664 campaing, named after a prisoner number he had for a long time.
There are major charity concerts in this campaign where the rest of Queen also plays regularly – often with Paul Rodgers (Tie Your Mother Down), occasionally with Katie Melua (Too Much Love Will Kill You) or Zucchero (Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime)1 or others.
And for the appeal to call the 46664 donation number, they wrote a song that’s starting from the telephone sounds:
- not a Queen song [↩]
Grocery Lubricants
What’s more surprising – Amazon.com apparently offering personal lubricants in the grocery department, or believing someone looking around there might be interested in (multi-packs of) lubricants? I mean, sure, there are, erm, suitably shaped groceries1, but … … …
Admittedly, the top category is “Grocery, Health and Beauty” and the subcategory “Health & Personal Care”, yet it’s an interesting combination Amazon might want to correct a bit. 
(Why they’re offering this to me? Must be due to some Amazon joke with “customers who bought this also bought that”. Believe it or not…)
- reportedly not really suitable for that use, though, so don’t try this at home… [↩]