No… not a crazy person. A mentalist is one of these. I also happen to be reading a book written by one too… Derren Brown, who is quite well known here in the UK.

I have to admit, it’s quite a good book. Naturally, he doesn’t give away all the details of his ‘tricks of the trade’ but it’s a rather interesting read, especially the section where he pretty much debunks hypnotism. It actually feels like he’s debunking himself.

I’ve not finished the book yet, but today (on the train) just got started on the section about bad-science, religion etc. Basically, it’s a huge rant, and somewhat a bit of a mini-Dawkins ‘God Delusion‘. He discussion in there though appealed to the scientist in me. Have to admit though, did cause a fair bit of searching of the inner self etc etc. I realised that my preaching of Peak Oil theory is rather ‘religious’. I guess I better prove it then (or supply proof of it). ;)

In other links I found on the net…
Climate change goal ‘unreachable’.

Japan – a signatory to Kyoto – should have cut by 6% but it has increased emissions by 7%.
Italy (+7.4%) and Spain (+59.8%) are missing their targets by a mile.

Whoops! Is that Spanish number a misprint… surely!!??!!

Living by the samurai sword: Devotees keep Japan’s cultural icon alive.

Bonenkai season hits Japan!

Japanese number 1 bloggers in the world

And finally… this weekend got OSX 10.5 Leopard installed on my Mac. No problems… works rather well at the moment. ‘Spotlight’ search technology on it is MUCH better than it was in Tiger (the previous release of OS X, 10.4).