September 20, 2007
September 19, 2007
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September 14, 2007
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lovely
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90 quid a week for what's essentially sheltered accomodation. Smart
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Is rock past it? Or are the critics?
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"Schreiber's semi-favorable review ... summarizes music as a 'solid but uninspired effort.'"
September 09, 2007
September 06, 2007
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Not sure how real this threat is, or that the PM is the right person to petition, but
September 05, 2007
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A clever way to keep walls clean. Bet it wouldn't work in the UK
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300+ Tools and Resources For Firefox
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"Very old, very big, an unusual or interesting shape, culturally or historically significant, associated with famous events or people, or of particular importance for wildlife."
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"With synchronicity, sympathy and symmetry"
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Humans can adapt to almost anything, even complete paralysis
September 02, 2007
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Momus on the virtues of uninformed commentary
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"Each August for the past decade, as faculty prepare for the academic year, Beloit College's Mindset List provides a look at the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of today’s first-year students"
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Soviet engineers might have been barking but BLIMEY
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Woudl be nice if true, but suspicion
August 31, 2007
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How a personality test designed (badly) to identify mentally ill bumpkins ended up as Corporate America's definition of employability. Scary
August 29, 2007
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An email to RSS gateway
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"What happened in Iraq went beyond inefficiency, beyond fraud even. This was about the business of government being corrupted by the profit motive to such an extraordinary degree that now we all have to wonder how we will ever be able to depend on the sta
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Artists interpret their favourite literary characters
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On the efforts to "normalise" Christiania
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eek
August 13, 2007
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"Historically jelly has been a sophisticated dish for adults" (Link is to RealAudio file, warning!)
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"We are clearly going to investigate this further within our cheese division."
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"The sound of bedtime"
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Leach and flummery
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"Statement of Influence: 'Everything funny to occur since 1989 -- including Arrested Development, the Numa Numa kid, and Bush not being able to open that door in China that one time -- sprang forth fully formed from The Simpsons'"
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A bunch of ways to conceal your email address
August 12, 2007
August 10, 2007
August 09, 2007
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Will Self vs. Richard Littlejohn. Bad-tempered comedy gold
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And they actually are! For a change
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"The research ... found that those with a certain common genetic variation tend to more readily remember emotionally charged events, for better or for worse"
August 08, 2007
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Modernism and the problem of evil
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"Thirteen years later [Ravel] still loved the rhythms but he was also painfully aware of what Viennese waltz culture had in the meantime become."
August 07, 2007
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You're going to need a bigger boat
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Second coelocanth found in Asia
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Mindboggling tale of a 757 that landed at Heathrow ... but had to take off again and go to Gatwick
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Problem: "Without huge amounts of money spent on repairs many will collapse - and even with huge amounts of money none will be worth what has been spent."
August 06, 2007
August 02, 2007
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Akhenaten probably found, Nefertiti probably lost
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"He wasn't too pleased," Paul Collingwood said. "I think he prefers the blue ones to the pink ones."
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"The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction"
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When I grow up and become a superhero I'm SO going to be this guy
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The importance of impossible physics. Useful concept: postulates of impotence
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"It is not true melting, he says, because the diamond particles don't become liquid carbon, but instead flicker between crystal forms by continually melting and instantly refreezing in a different conformation"
July 26, 2007
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Uncovering a little-known plot by some of America's most famous business families to overthrow Franklin D Roosevelt and install a fascist government
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Summarise yourself in a word. Mine is "next"
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"More often than not the deciding factor was a light touch. Sure, our book's about death, but that doesn't mean we want to be depressed reading it!"
July 25, 2007
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"Is rolling out the name of a 19th century writer really the best way to legitimize art being made now? Have we just decided to skip the 20th century entirely?"
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"Dolphins are easily excited when they sense people making love. They get jealous and bang their noses against the window"
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"Hidden doors and secret levers, an underground grotto, tunnels and a 2,000-square-foot sports bar ... [and] a 'secret and convenient lair with hidden entries' ... to indulge his 'manic obsession with prostitutes' and 'addiction to cocaine and Ecstasy.'"
July 24, 2007
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Jason de Caires Taylor, creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park
July 20, 2007
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“People think publishing is a business, but it’s a casino.”
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"Even Jane Austen would have difficulty finding a book deal in the 21st Century"
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"The ridge breach and the subsequent flooding would have helped reorganise river drainage in northwest Europe, re-routing both the Thames and the Rhine"
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I am chagrined to find out that its appeal is all about being middle-aged
July 19, 2007
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I appear to have taught Google a word
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"The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas ..."
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Divers find the drowned village of Manning's Hill
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HA HA HA HA please don't bail them out
July 18, 2007
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Because who hasn't always wanted to hear a fake ice cream jingle played on a Commodore 64?
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The white sheep of the family
July 16, 2007
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"Why has Twitter been so misunderstood? Because it's experiential. Scrolling through random Twitter messages can't explain the appeal. You have to do it — and, more important, do it with friends"
July 14, 2007
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"Claes Oldenburg's London Knees". And various concepts that'll be familiar to anyone who went to the Barbican's Future Cities expo
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Boilerplate, The Electric Man, The Steam Man of the Prairies and more
July 12, 2007
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A forgotten episode in US presidential history. Or perhaps best-forgotten, anyway
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Ah, the sweet smell of pink ink. The sweet, toxic smell
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Dynamic tension between composition and narrative in comics layouts
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"The research suggests memories ... act as if made from glass, existing in a molten state as they are being created, before turning solid."
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No shit
July 11, 2007
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"The specimen was found caught in a filter in [a] pipeline which runs 3,000 feet deep and sucks up cold, deep-sea water for tenants of a natural energy lab."
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I'm sure I remember someone eating this (and being thoroughly revolted) on TV. At least it turned out not to be peoplea
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Good links section
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Art O'Murnaghan, long-forgotten victim of nominative determinism
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The unfortunate life of Charles Altamont Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan) -- "a gentle, highly imaginative Victorian gentleman who somehow ended up in a madhouse but was too polite to inconvenience anybody by making a big fuss about it"
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Fabulous
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The unglamorous life of the Broken Family Band. I think there's going to be a lot more of this
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An alchemical tome, a mining tool, a crown jewel and more
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Stick outweighs carrots for hunter-gatherers