December 2011
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Amazon.co.uk Reviews Written by Hamilton... →
“What a triumph it is, this Nietzschean parable of the Superman. Mr Strong’s very being brims with the Will To Power, for which his physical strength is not a delicate metaphor. He hammers a nail into walls with his finger, he ties a knot in an iron bar.”
June 2011
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Myspace is dead! Long live Bandcamp! →
April 2011
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Is AV better than FPTP? « Gowers's Weblog →
If you can’t be hooped reading it all just read the bits in caps!
Update: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/av-vs-fptp-a-supplementary-post/
January 2011
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WatchThe Moviegoers Code of Conduct
September 2010
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June 2010
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The Swinger →
“…The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half….”
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May 2010
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Edinburgh by Numbers 2010/2011 →
From the City of Edinburgh Council Website: “Edinburgh by Numbers is an annually published booklet containing key statistical data relating to visting, investing, living, working or studying in the City of Edinburgh.”
April 2010
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RIP Ally Gunn →
Former Dark Blue player Alistair Gunn
FORMER DUNDEE FC player Alistair (Ally) Gunn, who played at almost every senior football ground in Britain, has died, aged 85.
He was an outside right for the club from 1946 to 1951, also playing for Huddersfield Town, Arbroath and Bournemouth.
Cheerio Grandad!
March 2010
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Kronos Quartet to play Steve Reich's "Different... →
July 2009
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Navajo Code Talkers →
“Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo Jima: the Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language — a code that the Japanese never broke.”
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June 2009
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May 2009
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The Wordsmith →
The Sun interview Alasdair Roberts? Surely not…‽
April 2009
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So bilious and saturnine, all in the noontime...
Alasdair Roberts - So Bored Was I (Dark Triad)
Enthralled was I, so enthralled was I as I walked the woods and the mountains high. As I walked the woods and the mountains high all in the mornin’ early. Then coming from an urn nearby I heard the sound of a baby cry. And I paused a while and I gazed inside the cry was mine, the babe was I. I was bilious I was saturnine as I walked from...
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Matthias Rath - steal this chapter →
Reblogged from Ben Goldacre’s blog Bad Science
“This is the “missing chapter” about vitamin pill salesman Matthias Rath. Sadly I was unable to write about him at the time that book was initially published, as he was suing my ass in the High Court. The chapter is now available in the new paperback edition, and I’ve posted it here for free so that nobody loses out.
Although the...
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March 2009
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WatchAaaaaahahahahahahaahahahahaaa! They’re both idiots!
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To politicians, we're little more than meaningless...
“…It’s all over. The politicians have finally shut us out of their game for good and we have nowhere left to turn. We’re not part of their world any more. We don’t even speak the same language. We’re the ants in their garden. The bacteria in their stools. They have nothing but contempt for us. They snivel and lie and duck questions on torture - on torture, for...
February 2009
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Grizzlies reveal 'fancy footwork' →
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Europeana: think culture
“Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 2 million digital items.
Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Some of these are world famous,...
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Binyam Mohamed torture evidence 'hidden from...
Letter to president about Binyam Mohamed was blanked out, say campaigners as they prepare for Guantánamo prisoner’s release to UK.
Read the Guardian article Read the letter [PDF]
via The Guardian
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OMG..A total WTF blog....!!!! →
Americans having problems. Funny nonetheless…
orchidnoire:
(via mizqueenie)
Does it make me a bad person that I utterly love this site? XD
January 2009
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Karl Rove Subpoenaed By John Conyers: 'Time To... →
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"Truth Truck" →
Holy hell…
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MMIX
2009 is the current year, a common year starting on Thursday, January 1 of the Gregorian calendar. A common year is a year with 365 days, i.e. not a leap year. A common year starting on a Thursday is the only common year with three occurrences of Friday the 13th. 2009 has been designated as the International Year of Astronomy and the International Year of Natural Fibres and the International Year...
December 2008
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John Galbraith Graham
Poetical scene has surprisingly chaste Lord Archer vegetating (3, 3, 8, 12)
“The Old Vicarage, Grantchester”
Cinephile
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My Paternal Grandad's Cousin →
So what relation does that make him to me? 3rd cousin? I just don’t know!!
(google translation of the article)
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“Skills by Tom Leonard
inventing jobs
teaching the skills
of applying for...”
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