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September 4th, 2009
12:46 pm

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50 things that are being killed by the internet
50 things that are being killed by the internet (or more accurately, by modern communications technology). Which do you miss the most? The least? What have they missed?

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June 13th, 2009
02:43 pm

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Rubik's Cube Menger Sponge and Crossword For Multidimensional Aliens

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April 1st, 2009
10:04 am

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April Fool roundup

Tell me more...This correspondence is now closed.

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March 1st, 2009
05:16 pm

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Tiziano Vecelli or Tony Hart?
Apropos of Kate Moss, Tiziano Vecelli and John Major and Morph ‘flashmob’ at Tate gallery, obviously what we need is a human-sized gold statue of Morph. Or maybe a couple of dozen of them scattered around the country. Or one REALLY ENORMOUS one (ideally in central London peering into 30 St Mary Axe, but that's probably unrealistic).

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February 2nd, 2009
10:53 pm

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18th century mechanical priests and the BBC necromancy department

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/7866103.stm:

he raised two extremely rare bronze canons, measuring 12ft (3.6m) and weighing four tonnes, which could only have belonged to the British man-of-war.

I'd not realized we'd deployed robot priests against the French prior to the Napoleonic wars.

[the Admiral's] ancestor Sir Robert Balchin said: "A piece of my family history and of national history has come alive."

...I'd also not realized that the BBC were able to interview people who'd been dead for centuries. (Unless Sir Robert has lived several times his three score and ten, that is.)


(They've fixed both mistakes now. But I saved a copy of the more amusing version.)

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September 18th, 2008
11:47 am

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Lib dems to take up telephone spamming?!?

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September 2nd, 2008
01:24 pm

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Mirren

Does anyone agree with Helen Mirren? Or Anne Widdecombe (do the Conservatives reject the label “the party of law and order” now then?)

What's she asking for? A cup of tea?

...well, why not? Hasn't she heard the REM song?

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August 31st, 2008
11:10 am

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Robert Baker strikes again

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August 28th, 2008
06:53 pm

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Kate Moss, Tiziano Vecelli and John Major

Maybe it's just me but I think I'd much rather have sculptures than paintings, and even if you don't share my taste, at £1.5M per statue we could have over 60 solid gold Kate Mosses scattered around the country for the £100M required for two paintings.

You might vary the model a bit: I think a larger-than-life solid gold statue of Sir John Major would be a marvelous thing - both as a satire on his grey reputation and a tangible acknowledgment of his bit-part in this country's recent slew of Olympic gold medals.

Who would do you nominate for golden immortality?

Apparently gold costs around £14,000/kilo so the BBC's quoted value of £1.5M for a 50kg statue suggests that the sculptor's time is worth Kate Moss's weight in gold.

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August 20th, 2008
11:16 pm

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Self-knowledge
Implicit Association Tests

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August 14th, 2008
01:05 pm

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Just imagine when this kid gets back to school. “My Dad wrestled a bear. Twice.”

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August 13th, 2008
09:04 pm

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A measly 700 grand for being badly framed
What took them so long? The police constable who helped fit him up got their compensation years ago...

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August 12th, 2008
01:01 pm

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Превед!

Satirists on the war in Georgia:

  • Steve Bell. Western non-intervention, Georgian sense of betrayal, blaming Georgia.
  • Morland. Western non-intervention.
  • Author unknown. Silliness of taking on Russia.
  • Author unknown. Western encouragement and subsequent non-intervention.
  • Author unknown. Blaming Georgia, Russian hypocrisy, Western non-intervention.

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August 2nd, 2008
08:11 pm

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I saw this and thought of, well, quite a number of CTSish types...

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July 19th, 2008
01:49 pm

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1-0 to the mammals
Leopard takes crocodile.

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July 6th, 2008
11:25 pm

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Facing the light
Rather clever

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09:00 pm

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Beasthouse
I have been enjoying reading The Beasthouse on and off for some time now.

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June 27th, 2008
10:33 pm

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Submarine struggle
Poll #1212257
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

Octopus vs. shark

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I hope the octopus wins
27 (96.4%)

I hope the shark wins
1 (3.6%)

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04:51 pm

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Vampires
Vampire Domestication: Taming Yesterday's Nightmares for a Better Tomorrow

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June 23rd, 2008
08:50 am

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Idiot journalist

The first program was written by the late Tom Kilburn to work out the highest factor of a prime number

I'm not entirely convinced that's true, you know...

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