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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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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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