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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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#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
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Is there somewhere (ideally nr #Fleet) where I can drop a bunch of shoes/boots and have them polished/treated?
Yes it’s lazy but we have dry cleaners and shirt-pressing and other services, so surely someone has a professional shoe-cleaning and polishing business and a track record of doing it right? I have business shoes, casual shoes, walking boots… I could take a afternoon over it all but would rather bung them at someone with
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Something to do with the dead flies that build up in your house over summer:
More at: http://craftastrophe.net/2010/02/bored-at-work-dead-fly-art-will-keep-you-busy/ ps: they do, don’t they? You don’t always every windowsill every day…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-04-28
: "What we need are some IPv6-only Porn Sites" # to fix IPv6 adoption – epic @bsideslondon quote http://t.co/IjNMcPyd # @oliviapockett Costa is coming to Hartley? Where, please? The Pour House refurbishment? #