Giant snakes terrorising Florida, a pretentious student blogger at Oxford, and...
...when class-aware Luddites attack!
Three Four hat-tips are due in this entry, but only this story (courtesy of helice) has any real Hollywood potential:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/fugitive-pythons-terrorise-florida-1748288.html
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This next link from a former colleague was packaged in an e-mail about general linguistic cross-contamination, and the relative decline of informal, UK-specific utterance modalities. So it's not "having a go" as such, but rather just highlighting an example of a phenomenon still considered worthy of study, despite it becoming a crashing bore inevitability of communicative globalisation more than a decade ago:
http://davidlyness.com
(Sorry, P. Edit: And good luck next Monday. Keep an eye on your Inbox...)
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Via E, here's another reason why I tend to be fairly selective about in-house, LiveJournal stuff, particularly those tangential communities seemingly overpopulated with have-a-go "anti-heroes" suffering from head-shaped anal obstructions:
http://community.livejournal.com/gradstudents/602732.html
(Yikes. Edit: Depending upon what kit you're running on your system/s, you may or may not be able to access that particular entry. Bugs in Release # 51 may also be factors...)
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Unexpected bonus link: This antique postcard blog made John Werry's top 10 list of antiques blogs (you can check out the rest of 'em here: http://www.blogs.com/topten/rare-victorians-top-10-antiques-blogs/)...
http://www.moodyscollectibles.com/postcard-news/
(Cheers to D.)
Three Four hat-tips are due in this entry, but only this story (courtesy of helice) has any real Hollywood potential:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/fugitive-pythons-terrorise-florida-1748288.html
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This next link from a former colleague was packaged in an e-mail about general linguistic cross-contamination, and the relative decline of informal, UK-specific utterance modalities. So it's not "having a go" as such, but rather just highlighting an example of a phenomenon still considered worthy of study, despite it becoming a crashing bore inevitability of communicative globalisation more than a decade ago:
http://davidlyness.com
(Sorry, P. Edit: And good luck next Monday. Keep an eye on your Inbox...)
_____________________
Via E, here's another reason why I tend to be fairly selective about in-house, LiveJournal stuff, particularly those tangential communities seemingly overpopulated with have-a-go "anti-heroes" suffering from head-shaped anal obstructions:
http://community.livejournal.com/gradstudents/602732.html
(Yikes. Edit: Depending upon what kit you're running on your system/s, you may or may not be able to access that particular entry. Bugs in Release # 51 may also be factors...)
_____________________
Unexpected bonus link: This antique postcard blog made John Werry's top 10 list of antiques blogs (you can check out the rest of 'em here: http://www.blogs.com/topten/rare-victorians-top-10-antiques-blogs/)...
http://www.moodyscollectibles.com/postcard-news/
(Cheers to D.)