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President Trump: The Inauguration
Damien Love's tv preview from The Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
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An indifferent penguin
This picture appeared in my Twitter feed and is too good not to share. The caption, from a tweet by Alan Ferrier, is "Who would have believed that the perfect Wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?"
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Squee!
In some news that I'm sure will delight weegoddess, the Oxford English Dictionary has finally (after 151 years) admitted squee to its pages. -
Sauvons le Grand Hamster d’Alsace !
Who knew Alsace had a giant hamster? Not me, and not shewhomust until I read her a story in today's Guardian. And now I discover they are seriously threatened and there is a campaign to save them. Here's more information and lots of pictures:
and they have even built a hamster bypass under a new autoroute:
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Happy birthday, SheWhoMust
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Spend a lot of chess?
The latest attempt to part me from my money by pretending my PayPal account has been suspended includes this intriguing sentence:
We have recently determined that differents computers are connected to your account,and spend a lot of chess were present before the login.
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Happy Birthday...
Happy birthday, helenraven.
Do you get the Wine Society emails? They have just started their January clearance. -
Let's do some maths...
... or for my US readers, some math.
This post is triggered by today's news that an at-home H.I.V. test has won F.D.A approval for sale in the USA. The article referred to gives these figures:- The home test is accurate 99.98% of the time for people who do not have the virus.
- The test is accurate 92% of the time in detecting people who do.
- About 20% of ( Read more... )
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