So, following on from Monday's post (which I shall be commenting on shortly, as soon as I've read these articles for a paper that's due much sooner than it should be), I thought this was pretty fab. Great advice, and a blogger totally added to my google reader.

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And a good "real life" example of this principle in practice:

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aka a real post and not just twitters ( Read more... )

So this is the view outside our bedroom window as of 8am today:

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And I'm not even going to try to explain it. Ladies and gentlemen and furry creatures of all kinds, I give you the Red Army Choir (yes, that one) singing "Sweet Home Alabama" (yes, that one)

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via Scratch my Brain

+1 for American Pop Culture.

The second oddest time I've heard this song was at a Halloween party at the V&A. . .

just in case my twitters aren't meeting your random quota for today and you're not interested in cooking posts. . .

I've stopped importing my LJ posts into facebook. It was a trial that I decided in the end wasn't something I liked the thought of long term. . .

Gsync is really driving me batty - when it works it is awesome, when it doesn't it is ( Read more... )

A hodge podge of what's in my life and head at the moment. . .

Work has blocked almost every social/fun website possible, including LJ and Facebook. Goodreads is still available and for some strange reason I still have access to a certain Great MAIL service. This is bothering me much more than it should given that it is their network afterall ( Read more... )

Well, not me precisely, but mental floss (which I found via Accidental Hedonist) has the origin of a couple of well known slang phrases - the best, (according to me) is this one:

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I thought this was rather interesting - a list of predictions for what life in the year 2000 would be like from Ladies Home Journal, December 1900 (hat tip to Marginal Revolution). Most are way off, but a lot of them are actually quite accurate. A few of my favourites:

( of spigots and pneumatic tubes )

Perhaps the time has come

From the NYT article:On Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Eastern time, technical problems cut off more than five million BlackBerry users in the United States from their cherished wireless e-mail. Service was restored 10 long, data-starved hours later ( Read more... )