One of the strangest thing about the web is the way that information searching and the instantaneous movement of attention from one topic to another, has become second nature.
Today I started on the Wikipedia page where the featured article is about the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade who were used to garrison Iceland after the British Occupation during the second World War. Going to the page on the Occupation, I discovered that the British also occupied the Faroe Islands to prevent Nazi occupation and the resulting threat to shipping. I don't know a lot about the Faroes, even though they are relatively close to Britain and the state of the Scottish national football team is often gauged by how well they would or wouldn't beat the team of part-time players, so I thought I would find out how big and populous these island were (they have a population of about 50,000). As it happens, the islanders are also engaged in a debate about whether they favour independence from the Kingdom of Denmark. In 2011, a new draft Faroese constitution was being drawn up but the then Danish Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, stated this was incompatible with Denmark's constitution and that if the Faroese political parties wish to continue with it then they must declare independence. This was reported in an online news source called "Ice News (News from the Nordics!)" which had a side panel with "Popular Posts" of which, apparently, the most popular is a story about the legalisation, in 2008, of animal brothels in Denmark.
At which point, I start to wonder if it has all been worthwhile... Beam me up, Scotty!
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