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leonard cohen
It was fabulous. More soon.
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if you like it so much, why don’t you go live there?
Random website of the week: spEak You’re bRanes. An hilarious collection of mockery and analysis of the UK equivalent of the Australian “we grew here, you flew here”/”Australia: love it or leave” brigade. Oh, and it’s probably NSFW.…
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truly visionary
This reminds me of my own battered batter project (the secret is to roll the first round of batter in flour to reduce oil before re-battering): french fry coated hotdog. Truly, they are years ahead of me.…
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it’s rice, jim, but not as we know it
Seems like someone with a lot of creativity and time on their hands has decided to get creative with bentō boxes.
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squid-human reconciliation society
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more lese majeste – associate professor giles ji ungpakorn
Further to the post about Harry Nicolaides, I thought I would add a link to the case of Associate Professor Giles Ji Ungpakorn, a Thai academic who is seemingly about to be charged under the same antiquated and…
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fnord
Anyone who gets this without googling wins significant respect. Or at least less disrespect.
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the strange case of harry nicolaides
This is disgraceful: a Melbourne man, Harry Nicolaides, has been jailed in Thailand for three years for insulting the Thai royal family in a novel he has apparently written. The conviction is a result of Thailand’s anachronistic…
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my wandering days are over
This is a good little article for anyone interested in Belle & Sebastian and, in particular, their earlier days. There is a focus on the first to B&S albums, Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister.I tend to agree with…
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look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
The Long Now Foundation (http://www.longnow.org/) seems like an interesting project: it’s intention is to promote long-term thinking in the context of the next 10,000 years. To that end it has various projects underway – my favourite is a…
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hey, my shoes are talking
Uh oh: three+ cups of coffee a day increases the risk of hallucinations. Also:
In moderation, caffeine can increase the capacity for mental or physical labor, but when used in excess, it also can be intoxicating, causing nervousness, irritability,
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more macro photography
Karloskar’s taken it up several notches with this shot, using the same technique described previously (click on the photo for more sizes etc):
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grim future
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DRM-free itunes music files are spying on you for the music industry
You may have read about how Apple, in its benevolence, is finally releasing its entire music catalogue in a digital rights management-free format – i.e., you can copy them freely as you see fit. Sounds great… -
game where the gods came to die
As part of our quest for total geekiness, we are currently playing Puerto Rico. It’s pretty good so far. If you have no interest in weird European board games you may like to look away now.Things I…
