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“I think I MAY NEED A BATHroom break? Is this possible”
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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The Wicker Man director angry over remake
[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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Everyone Hates Google Earth?
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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Things I’ve learned from British folk ballads
[nielsenhayden.com] Don’t ignore warnings. If someone tells you to beware of Long Lankin, friggin’ beware of him. If someone tells you not to go by Carterhaugh, stay away. Same goes for your mother asking you not to go out hunting on a particular day. Portents about weather, particularly when delivered by an old sailor who…
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A ‘devastated’ Leonard Cohen
Strange, bizzare and sad: [www.macleans.ca] The Canadian music icon is broke and the lawsuits are flying. It’s a sordid tale involving allegations of extortion, SWAT teams, forcible confinement, tax troubles and betrayal.
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A Solution to Theft of Motorcycle Tax-Disks?
I was reading elsewhere of a common complaint: My tax disc was stolen again a couple of weeks ago. This time instead of just taking the tax disc, the pikey kids took the entire tax disc holder. (Probably because I’d replaced the “insecure” holder with a new one that has six hex screws holding the…
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High Praise, Indeed!
From Bridget: thank god for your blog! it is a lifesaver in these times of emotional turbulence! ( you can post this as a recommendation if you want! ) love the pics of the dragonfly!!! …now all I need to do is get her onto Skype, and I can spend all my days – as…
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Interview with the Dragonfly
In my garden hangs a 50m length of scarlet webbing, in lieu of a washing line; taking advantage of the fine weather on Saturday I was hanging-out a load of wet clothes, and found that a Dragonfly had parked atop one of the supportbeams, two of its front legs crossed and all of them resting…
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LEARN MORSE CODE in one minute !
This is one of the most brilliantly clear and immediately accessible ways of representing arbitrary data in a teaching tool, that I have ever seen in my life: [www.learnmorsecode.com]