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Amanda Congdon, mugged at gunpoint
Apparently she’s OK, though. Hope so. [www.rocketboom.com]
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Steam-Powered Motorcycle
I haven’t the time to find any more links about this at the moment, but it’s worth a quick look: [www.telegraph.co.uk] In February we reported on the challenge thrown down by the West of England Steam Engine Society to build a steam motorcycle capable of being ridden at up to 50mph around a “wall of
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Rein-in Your Wordy Weirdness, By [Deity]!
I try not to be much of a pedant regarding such matters, and I am far from perfect regarding proper spelling – especially when tired – however just to vent one teensy-weensy pet peeve: Hypothesis: The old adage of ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ is overused, misleading, and may in fact be practically useless.
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The Flying Mobulas of the Sea of Cortez
This just looks incredible: [www.malbertphoto.com]
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presidential speechalist
And while we’re on the subject of comedy, watch this: [gprime.net] – it answers a lot of questions about the President of the USA. (WMV alas, streaming)
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Stan Freberg at the Comedy Story, London
By miracle of the BBC, I received free tickets yesterday to go see Stan Freberg at The Comedy Store in London. I’ll be honest and say that I had no idea into what I was getting, because the tickets were a pseudorandom draw and my scant research had indicated that Freberg was (a) old and
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New Blogger
Big shout out to Simon Bullen recently arrived in the Blogosphere.
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DIY Speech Bubbles
Via Bart Blanquart: [www.pleaseenjoy.com] I printed 50,000 of these speech bubble stickers. I place them on top of movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City. Passers are invited to fill them in. I go back and photograph the results. …some interesting ones; I don’t like the context as much as I do
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Letter from Ancona
Bridget writes: I have just had a conversation with Maria and apparently you can buy Jedi light sabres in a supermarket in Castelfidardo. It is the only place in this locality with ‘the force’ but you are only allowed one if you buy three boxes of Coco Pops too – what would Darth Vader say?
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And the most popular article on my website is…
…this one: 5009 hits: banana anatomy Damn, the internet’s a weird place. Update: Link fixed to sort relative-URL problems
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Guinea Pig has a night to remember…
One for Nick & H, I think: [carcino.gen.nz]
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Roman Villa Discovered Via Google Earth
While searching around his hometown in Google Earth, Luca Mori stumbled on what looked like the meanders of an ancient river. On the satellite image, it looks like “prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long.”. However, his eye caught what he described as “rectangular shadows”. He led further analysis only to convince himself