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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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…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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One for Nick & H, I think: [carcino.gen.nz]

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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

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Tonight: 2215h, BBC Radio4, 95 mins Iraq: the Galloway – Hitchens debate Hear Galloway and Hitchens debate the Iraq war. Amusing how the strapline denies both of them first names. Apparently it’ll be up for re-listening after the broadcast, on [www.bbc.co.uk]

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For the last 24 hours this blog has been – for want of a better explanation – under attack. The attack has been been to add comment-spam to prettymuch every posting in the archive, and as-of 9am this morning I had received 810 of these things. Now here’s the funny thing: these aren’t referrer-spams. They

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OK, do Dubya’s human too, and humans occasionally need to go to the potty, but as Sarah points out, it hardly fits the magnificence of how Reuters spun it: [news.yahoo.com] President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th

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[www.themovieblog.com] The Wicker Man director angry over remake […] In the original, Woodward’s character was a virgin, making him ideal for sacrifice. That element has been ditched from the remake, because it was thought that while audiences would accept the idea of an American community that practised human sacrifice, the idea of a grown-up virgin

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[www.funnygames.nl] – link c/o [www.csamuel.org]

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A charming and exceptionally well-done piece of animation, good song too: [www.jcbsong.co.uk] Rather Calvin&Hobbes-ish, in a British sort of way. Open the book, and click on the video link.

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Most definitely.

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Well, the Russian Government hates Google Earth, the Korean Government hates Google Earth, the Dutch Government hates Google Earth, GetMapping.COM are abhored by MI5 and their flunkies although somehow Google Maps seems to be approved-of by the BBC and Google Earth is not yet on the UK media’s radar… Isn’t it funny that people will

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