From The Futility Closet, a tale of a English minister, George Harvest, who woke up in Calais without his friend and had to figure out how to find him....

He could not speak a word of French, but recollecting that Lord Onslow was at the Silver Lion, he put a shilling in his mouth, and set himself in the attitude of a lion rampant. After exciting ( Read more... )

Have been reading Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point. Realising I am a connector, accumulating multiple excellent human beans in my social spirals, with comedic maven powers of trusted recommendation goodness. Realising too how very American-skewed some of his rough workings get to be...

In the paragraph below is a list of around 250 surnames, all ( Read more... )

Neatorama has reported on a new Ratio Finder application, developed for Foursquare, which "lets users find check-in locations with the sharpest gender imbalances so that they can go there and, well, presumably flirt and such".


( Read more... )