Campaign posters - asking for trouble.

Your argument is irrelevant

and vice versa

iPad

A surprising version of an old english folk song

Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction

I'm afraid that the fact I was completely unaware of this comes as no surprise to me at all. I stumbled across the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction while reading a book on Number Theory, I find it astonishing, puzzling and beautiful.
http://tinyurl.com/ybq2gga

Hippy wittering I found on Flickr

Ooooooooo! May I?

You can't have it both ways

... but You Shall Never Know Our Position!

My Favourite Newspaper

http://global.nytimes.com/?iht

Really strong writing and not as US-centric as you might think. (As an added bonus it is often the only english text available in European newsstands - so it is my "holiday" paper too)

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hereditary celebrity Peaches Geldof

New Scientist

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The plural of anecdote is not fact.

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silver spoon, a paper plate

Stolen from The Guardian

If Lambrini was being honest, its montage of people "doing the Lambrini" would consist of a group of tracksuited teenagers passing a single bottle of cherry flavour among themselves on a park bench; a young woman in a "sexy policewoman" outfit holding her friend's hair away from her face as the latter vomits chips into a bin; and a Yates's Wine Lodge rejectee grimly holding on to her bottle for dear life as she has hurried sex with a stranger behind a bottle bank while her mate tries to hail a cab.

Truly, a dance for all mankind …

I WILL NOT PAY, probably. Just you wait and see.

There is a Facebook group called "I WILL NOT PAY £3.99 A MONTH TO USE FACE BOOK FROM JULY 9TH 2010!"

I note that the name is all in upper case and carries an exclamation mark. Thus it is easier to believe that it's rooted in semi-infantile hysteria rather than sound inside information. None the less there is interesting and simple maths that can be done.

The "I WILL NOT PAY ..." group has almost half a million members - this out of 350 million Facebook users. So, a company that bought Facebook and started charging for it might expect 1 in 700 users to become upset and stop using FB. It's an addictive site though, a good many of the half million may be making empty threats, particularly people who have put loads of time into fecking Farmville.

None the less, let's assume that slightly more than 1 in 700 would leave. For the sake of convenience let's say - 359 users out of every 360 would quit - leaving a million paying users. Let's only charge them $1 a month - then we're raking in $12 million a year before even charging for advertising.

Of course I haven't the slightest idea of if or when FB might turn commercial. Contrary to popular wisdom though, there may be danger in numbers.

Mmmm. Nice.

This, if it actually exists, is surely a joke - but a very expensive one.

Unicycle, of sorts

It seems that she can actually ride it, amazing.

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... is the last gasp of methane from the intestines of the dead cow of post-modernism.

Anatidaephobia

Outlook is bleak

The three following phrases will always get you out of jury duty:

1. "He *looks* guilty."
2. "I think that where there's smoke there's fire."
3. "I have a degree"

Surely this can't be right ...

60 Nm required for pedal cranks.

Oooo - what an exciting parcel to turn up. It must be something large, or very delicate.

Or - neither. It was the world's most overpacked torque wrench.



www.screwfix.com - deliver with astonishing rapidity (ordered Sunday, delivered Monday) and more than adequate packaging.

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Look at that. "Accident Blackspot"? These aren't accidents. They're throwing themselves into the road gladly. Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness.

Attention please.

After careful investigation I have discovered that, in every aspect, Orienteering is of exactly the same merit as Line Dancing.

That will be all.

Gift from the gods.

My bikeshop gave me these two mysterious little things along with recently purchased bike:




Miraculously I didn't throw them out (I am an avid and savage anti-hoarder, living in a very small house).

I now see why I need them. The first is optional, but the second one turns out to be absolutely indispensable as my other crank puller will not fit XTR cranks.

http://www.parktool.com/repair/readcalvinscorner.asp?id=157

Replacement chainrings installed, ready for race. Woohoo!

lol

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" ... patients have been conditioned to be grateful for what they are about to receive."

Yep. Good for you.

Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years.

A widely known work you have prob already seen. Still, just in case ...