AG’s advice from 7th March 2003 revealed by C4 News…

Released just moments ago…

http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=91

For those interested, the MS Word document on the C4 website, sadly, doesn’t give any more insight (superficially, at least). It was created by User @ ITN at 17:43, presumably from another source, as the editing time is one minute.

Just makes you take another look at that lightning strike of Blair’s plane…

Update: 19:48 and still no mention on the BBC; could they be scared of reporting government leaks prematurely?
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World’s Largest Nanotube

http://www.rice.edu/slashdot/nanotube/blogs.rice.edu/nanotube
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FIB 2005

After a hectic morning, the line-up for Festival Internacionale Benicassim (FIB) 2005 is finally out.

The line-up isn’t as good as last year’s (which frankly didn’t appear to be as good as previous years’, but we had a hell of a good time).

An English version of the site is available, but it hasn’t been updated since last year.

Cheap flights to Valencia are available through BA and their European special offer (supported by Egg) is valid until 25th April.
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Nanotubes on /.

Typically confused, typical Slashdot: there’s an article on ‘news’ from Smalley’s group at Rice.

The facts about 100m long ‘wires’ (in fact maybe wound bundles) and RT superconductivity are obviously plain incorrect summarisation, but it does provide an interesting insight into the world of promotion in science.
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That Wedding

Of all the hot gossip about this weekend’s Royal wedding, most interestingly the BBC reports that Timothy West is do perform a reading of Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality (text courtesy of Bartleby), which is hardly the most love-struck poem written.
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Interesting Fact of the Day!

Not very sure why I’m posting this; perhaps it’s my love of pedantry, particularly when it slaps the face of populism. It comes from a letter in the Telegraph.

‘Jerusalem’ is not in ‘Jerusalem’

You perpetuated a myth in your report on Britain’s best hymns (News, March 27) by referring to Gordon Brown’s choice as “William Blake’s Jerusalem”, and in the accompanying table saying “Jerusalem (1916)”. The hymn that starts “And did those feet in ancient time�” is from a poem by William Blake entitled Milton, for which these words were the Preface and were written not in 1916 but in 1804.

The words were set to music by Charles Parry, who gave his rousing music the title Jerusalem. As far as I know, no other hymn is referred to just by the name of the music.

To add to the confusion, William Blake also wrote a poem entitled Jerusalem, but nowhere in it will you find the words used in this favourite hymn.

P Anthony Bell, Hexham, Northumberland

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