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Choice quote: Why Brits verify nudity from the front and Americans verify it from the rear is anyone’s guess. Stuff that every Briton needs to know: The word’s probable derivation is so non-vulgar as to be quite amusing. Specifically, a bollock is a pulley-block at the head of a topmast, otherwise known as a bullock

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Via Chris Samuel: [www.csamuel.org] The world is going barmy through fear – here’s someone getting arrested for wearing a rain jacket, carrying a rucksack with a laptop inside, looking down at the steps while going into a tube station and checking his phone for messages. I guess he probably considers himself lucky not to have

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[www.wired.com] When New England inventor Philip French had his epiphany 15 years ago, he didn’t dream it would lead to an invention that would be pressed into service in a top-secret government project, or spawn an epic court battle over the limits of executive power. He was just admiring a tennis ball.

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The Register, with a 4-page compendium of interesting places to look-at using satellite and aerial photo resources on the web: [www.theregister.co.uk]

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Apparently she’s OK, though. Hope so. [www.rocketboom.com]

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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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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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This just looks incredible: [www.malbertphoto.com]

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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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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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Big shout out to Simon Bullen recently arrived in the Blogosphere.

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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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