Otway.

If you've not heard it and you can do the streaming thing, then there's a 30-second clip at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/media/g2/artists/john_otway/burn.ram

Warning: may contain childish humour and samples from disco-funk classics. Listen at own risk.

OFFS pt. 2

Jerry Falwell's useful contribution to the current debate:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2304179.stm.

"I think Mohammed was a terrorist. I read enough...by both Muslims and non-Muslims (to decide) he was a violent man, a man of war," Mr Falwell said.

"In my opinion, Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses, and I think Mohammed set an opposite example."

Mr Falwell is well-known for his inflammatory statements.

Last year, he was widely criticised for saying pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays and civil liberties groups had contributed to the moral decay of the United States, angering God who allowed the 11 September attacks to happen.

He later apologised.

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

The Academy has just announced thatthis year's prize is awarded to US scientists Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz, and to John Sulston, the founder and former director of the Sanger Center, my workplace, "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death".

I don't know John Sulston, but obviously various people I know do, to various extents, and he seems unanimously admired not just for his work (including, lets not forget, also being one of the leading advocates for, and possibly the saviour of, the Human Genome Project) but also for being relaxed and unassuming in the face of any and all temptations to get above himself.