Current mood:	rushed
Current music:	Some Sweet Day, Sparklehorse

Were you, like me, told as a child that if you dug a hole all the way through the earth you'd end up in Australia? Apparently Americans are told they'll end up in China, but you get the idea. Well sadly freakcrab has blown a hole through that childish misconception, by sending me a link to DigHoles.com.

Thanks to this interesting use of Google's mapping technology I now know that were I, no matter where I was in the UK, to dig a hole through the centre of the Earth, I'd end up in the Pacific Ocean, somewhere south of New Zealand. Anyone digging such a hole from Australia would end up in the Atlantic Ocean. Some Spaniards are luckier and would make it to New Zealand but for most of us it'd be a watery experience. If we weren't fried to a crisp due to all the molten hot stuff that resides inside the Earth, that is.

Any Falkland Islanders looking for an unconventional way to escape their sheep and penguin-filled homelands could tunnel their way to the China/Russia border. I think that a plane to Blighty would probably be a better idea, on balance.