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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-02
RT @runasand: High Court has ruled that five ISPs in the UK must block the Pirate Bay. I wonder what the block page will look like. #
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-01
RT @Glinner: Sing it, brother! @mjrobbins has written a piece on porn that you should read. Funny, thoughtful & honest http://t.co/UFgcFPAR # @sonniesedge They moved down south. # Dinner at @thefollybar nr Monument; the blue cheese burger was welldone, dry, barely garnished; the vaunted buns crumbly and stale-bap-like # Also @thefollybar service took >1h (not…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-04-30
: #Missiles in East #London for the #Olympics Cor! It's the #Blitz all over again! http://t.co/RQDcj54w # Presumably any aircraft deviating from approach to London City will be shot down; they should avoid go-arounds then… # : Outer Space on Vimeo http://t.co/7Eh56uHT # : Thunderously deep boom over Hartley Wintney. Not thunder. http://t.co/bESEZwH7 # :…
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Must-See: Science off the Sphere: Fun with Antibubbles # Zero-G Bubble in Space!
Must-listen, if only for the voiceover…
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“Do you know, Miall, Encyclopaedia Britannica doesn’t even mention spaghetti?” # and this is why we have #wikipedia
In de Jaeger’s 2000 obituary Ian Jacob, the then-Director-General of the BBC, was quoted as having said to Leonard Miall, Head of Television Talks 1954-61, “When I saw that item, I said to my wife, ‘I don’t think spaghetti grows on trees’, so we’d looked it up in Encyclopædia Britannica. Do you know, Miall, Encyclopædia…
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Basic forensics / Why it sucks to lack Google Streetmap in Switzerland / Panorama Spaghetti Trees
Okay, this is a whim, but: Via my sister’s blog I found a video of the 1957 Panorama “Spaghetti Harvest”: And I thought: let’s find out where that was shot. The video references Switzerland and Lake Lugano, but of course that may be all fake; but an establishing shot clearly shows Pensione [Ri]storante Taddei –…
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Thunderously deep boom over Hartley Wintney. Not thunder.
Not sure what it was, but it was like a Vulcan bomber on reheat, that deep.
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Outer Space on Vimeo
via Outer Space on Vimeo.
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Presumably any aircraft deviating from approach to London City will be shot down; they should avoid go-arounds then…
else, boom.
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#Missiles in East #London for the #Olympics? Cor! It’s the #Blitz all over again!
Ignoring the matter of what the missile’s target would land/crash onto, maybe they should install ack-ack too. And bend the beams. And misreport terrorist activity as happening too far to the northwest…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-04-29
@oliviapockett Wow – that's huge; went past there yesterday to check but didn't see anything. Many thanks! # : Something to do with the dead flies that build up in your house over summer: http://t.co/pniYu8wR # : Is there somewhere (ideally nr #Fleet where I can drop a bunch of shoes/boots and have them polished/treated?…
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After discovering Notker the Stammerer, I find Grundthos the Flatulent to be much more plausible
Notker the Stammerer (Latin: Notker Balbulus) (c. 840 – 6 April 912), also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland. He is commonly accepted to be the Monk of Saint Gall (Monachus Sangallensis), the author of…